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Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation
by: Walter Jackson
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Increased Appreciation of Life
Living in the here and now (mindfulness) helps you
to enjoy life. So often we speed in our busy world and miss simple
pleasures of being present with our loved ones, enjoying the taste of our
foods, or seeing a sunset.
Reduced Suffering
Physical Pain
Many pain clinics around the country are teaching
patients Mindfulness. Millions of people live daily with chronic pain, and
analgesics and medical treatments simply don’t help. Doctors are
discovering alternative ways o overcome suffering by awareness which can
dissolve pain.. Through Mindfulness, we are discovering there is personal
empowerment by using pain as our teacher. What does this pain tell me about
my life?
Emotional Pain, Compulsions and Addictions
More and more mental health professionals are using
mindfulness skills with patients to help them become less entangled with
damaging emotional pain such as fear, grief, anger, jealousy, shame, etc
Elevated Performance Levels
Mindfulness is focusing. When we are focused we can
perform any task more efficiently from our daily routines, to sports to
work, or the fine arts.
Effects on Health
Mindfulness meditations increase brain alpha waves,
and we find this deep relaxation affects our bodies in a positive way
promoting total health. We even find exercising easier and more pleasant
because we’re more responsive to our bodies.
Improved Interpersonal Relationships at Work And
Home
We can miss special moments with our loved ones and
friends by failing to be present with them even for a few minutes. We may
be with them physically, but not emotionally. Mindfulness helps us to
enjoy even the brief moments with those we care about. We also find that
Mindfulness skills allows us to build professional relationships with better
communication.
Inner Growth
Most religions encourage us to be still and listen
to our higher power, but often in our break neck paced world, it’s hard.
With Mindfulness practice, we learn to calm ourselves and move out of the
way for our higher power to direct us
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