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Benefits of Meditation to Prevent Stress
from:Can meditation help to reduce stress or to manage depression?
When you are fearful or sad, you can feel consumed by stress or
depression. Meditation helps you to witness your mind, placing
your fears and disappointments in perspective. Fears and
disappointments, however vast, are temporary, like dark clouds
in a vast sky. By observing the clouds, you begin to realize
that the clouds are your own thoughts. The thoughts arose from
your own mind. You can experience your own nature as peaceful,
calm and quiet, like the sky on a still day. By paying less
attention to your troubling thoughts you can experience power
and peace.
Throughout the day, when we experience stress, our bodies
automatically react in ways that prepare us to fight or run. In
some cases of extreme danger, this physical response is helpful.
However, a prolonged state of such agitation can cause physical
damage to every part of the body. Meditation affects the body in
exactly the opposite ways that stress does, restoring the body
to a calm state, helping the body to repair itself, and
preventing new damage due to the physical effects of stress.
Stress management has been associated with increased senior
health and well-being. While retirement seems to be a time of
little stress. After all, with job stress that's been endured
for decades out of the picture, one may wonder if there even is
stress after retirement -- senior stress can still originate
from relationships, finances, and retirement itself, as well as
from many other areas of life.
Meditation is a one of the natural methods of relieving stress.
Though meditation and stress are inter related now, it actually
started as a religious practice. Meditation is a simple way to
balance a person's physical, mental and emotional states.
Meditation originated from Hinduism. It was also developed
independently in Sufism. Meditation was later done for non
religious purposes like exercises, martial arts and treatment of
health conditions. In the present era, many religions especially
eastern religions like Buddhism, Sikhism, and Judaism follow
meditation. The recent attention on meditation is because it
acts as a stress reliever.
Meditation and stress relief
1. Decreases the metabolic rate, lowers heart rate and lowers
blood pressure
2. Lowers levels of cortisol and lactate-two. Both these
chemicals are a buy product of stress.
3. Reduces free radicals damage to the body
4. Improves skin resistance which lowers with higher stress and
anxiety l
5. Helps reduce high cholesterol levels which some with stress
and lead to cardiovascular disease.
Our lives are overloaded
Exercise to Reduce Stress
1. As you breathe, let your abdomen expand outward, rather than
raising your shoulders. This is a more relaxed and natural way
to breathe, and helps your lungs fill themselves more fully with
fresh air, releasing more "old" air.
2. You can do this just a few times to release tension, or for
several minutes as a form of meditation.
3. If you like, you can make your throat a little tighter as you
exhale so the air comes out like a whisper. This type of
breathing is used in some forms of yoga and can add additional
tension relief.
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