Stress-Related Benefits of Meditation

Have you thought about establishing a meditation practice, but haven't because you feel you don't have enough time? If you’re living a stressful life and wonder how you could better manage your stress, a daily meditation practice would do you wonders.

Through meditation you learn coping skills that help you manage stress better. You’ll learn how to control your physical reactions such that you will be able to breathe through a stressful encounter during a work meeting or a highly emotional time with your family. If you practice regularly enough, paying attention to your body’s sensations and feelings, you will learn how to resist the fight or flight adrenaline rush that comes with stressful situations.

When you meditate, you process through existing stress. As you meditate, you’ll learn how to address stressful issues, accept them for what they are, and set them aside, focusing on the positive in your life. It will help be positive and find ways to work things out. Aftr meditating, you will be calm, positive, and ready to make progress on issues without adding conflict or drama.

Meditation helps you deal with stress so you can get a good night's sleep. If you sleep better, you will start each day more prepared to handle your day.

Meditation helps you make good decisions. As you process your stress and then interact with colleagues and family members, you’ll be more calm and able to diminish drama. If you and your colleagues are all stressed, the chances for drama and conflict rises sharply, but if you are calm and serene, you can decrease the amount of drama at the workplace. You, on the other hand, will be relaxed and able to handle difficult things as they come your way, especially if your meditation practice includes a moral or principle such as acceptance or loving kindness.

Meditation is an easy to learn and easy to transport stress management tool. If you establish a practice, you could be a completely different person.