What are the benefits of meditation ?

Benefits of Meditation 

Psychological Health Benefits

• Meditation reduces anxiety and depression. 
• Meditation increases stress resilience.
• Promotes increase in positive emotions
• Increases focus, present moment awareness, stimulates pre-frontal cortex.  
• Healthy emotional stability and increased intelligence.
• Meditation increases your capacity to learn
• Increases empathy and compassion towards others
• Meditation increases a sense of connection to yourself and others.
• It increases your sense of purpose and meaning for life.
• Meditation improves sociability.

Physical Health Benefits

• Meditation literally grows your brain… both in volume and thickness.
• Meditation increases blood flow to your brain and reduces cortisol levels
• Meditation reduces blood pressure and heart rate
• Meditation increases neuroplasticity. This is the brains ability to organize itself.
• Stimulates production of good neurotransmitters, serotonin and dopamine.
• Triggers the parasympathetic nervous system for recover from stress.
• Boosts the immune system and relaxes muscles.
• Slows the ageing process.