Why You Should Meditate - The Benefits & Perks of Meditating

Why You Should Meditate

If you’re anything like me, you’ll want to know what you’ll get in return for time. Every morning I wake up and meditate for 5-10 minutes when I could clearly get a head start on the day, but I choose to meditate and prioritize my health because of the benefits.

            Life doesn’t always live up to your expectation and many times you suffer from it in the form of stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and many other unpleasant feelings.

We suffer from our tendency to compare our lives to some ideal image of what our life should be like. This self-created image of what our life should be like comes from our childhood conditioning, personal desires, and the media. That perfect vision of the life you want to have sets such high expectations and you have to be ready to pay a high price for it, because when life fails to live up to those expectations, you suffer from it.

You might just be one of the few who accomplish all that you desire but yet you keep craving more out of life. You get bored or maybe you’re struggling to maintain what you’ve already achieved in fear of it being taken away from you.

The tradition of meditation teaches us that there are far more stronger forces at work than you and I. You can envision, take action, and try to control your destiny but the truth is that you and I have only limited control over the circumstances in our life.

Now I’m not saying that you shouldn’t set fourth and follow your dreams because that is an important part of this equation but when life kicks your down how do you respond?

Stephan Bodian, psychotherapist and meditation instructor said it best,

"We relegate our old and dying to nursing homes, ignore our homeless, restrict our impoverished minorities to ghettoes, and confine our mentally ill and developmentally challenged to hospitals and asylums, while plastering our billboards and magazines with the smiling faces of youth and prosperity." (Bodian)

            We only see what the others choose to show us, only fools believe the lies the media portrays. Life is more than what we see through the media, life is pleasure and pain, light and darkness, success and failure, health and sickness, life and death. The key to a peaceful state of mind relies solely on how you respond to circumstances. Suffering is focusing on what you don’t have and disregarding what you do have. Change the way you think and instead of focus on what you do have and not stressing about the things you lack. Trust me when I say I do NOT want you to give up on your aspirations in life, but just learn to be more accepting of what life has to offer.

What are the physiological benefits of meditation?

Meditation connects us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and it gives us a sense of wholeness. Implementing the art of meditation to our daily lives helps reduce depression as it connects us with our inner source of contentment and happiness.  

Meditation reduces the onset of many stress-related illnesses by decreasing heart rate, lowering blood pressure, reducing cholesterol levels, promoting muscle relaxation, and decreasing the need for energy and oxygen in our body.

What are the psychological benefits of meditation?

            Meditation is the mind’s natural antidote. Meditation enhances self-actualization and a enhances creativity. It decreases intense negative emotions and drastic mood swings.

            I’ve seen a huge difference in my life in the way I carry myself through meditation. It gives my mind a heightened perceptual clarity and reduces my anxiety.

If you to desire to have unshakable inner peace without allowing an external force to disturb it, you should consider practicing meditation.

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