| We've all heard about the health benefits of | | | | Living in joy is probably THE most fundamental |
| meditation. Scientists have been busily cataloging | | | | support for living in good health. Dis-ease cannot |
| them for many years now. Each study brings | | | | get a foothold in a joyful body. Aim for joy! |
| more "proof," but anyone who meditates | | | | Allowing Good Health |
| experiences the good results right away. | | | | The natural state of our bodies is good health. |
| These are the five core health benefits of | | | | Every cell in our bodies strives toward a state of |
| meditation: | | | | good health every millisecond of every day of our |
| | | | lives. And, our cells know how to be healthy, but |
| 1. Lowers Stress | | | | we pinch ourselves off from our natural state of |
| 2. Decreases Anger | | | | good health in many ways. |
| 3. Increases Happiness | | | | Quantum physics proves that our thoughts affect |
| 4. Optimizes Allowing of Good Health | | | | material objects and material outcomes. We truly |
| 5. Strengthens Intuition | | | | BECOME what we think about. Sometimes the |
| Lowers Stress | | | | only ways to let go of our negative thoughts |
| This is probably the best-documented and most | | | | (that cause negative outcomes in our bodies) are |
| self-explanatory of all the benefits of meditation. | | | | to meditate or to sleep. |
| Stress harms the body in myriad ways. | | | | Both sleeping and meditating are equally effective |
| Meditation, even just a little bit of regular | | | | in letting go of negativity and thus ALLOWING |
| meditation, has been proven time and again to | | | | GOOD HEALTH. But, the benefit of meditation |
| lower stress. | | | | over sleep is that it is a waking state. We can |
| Decreases Anger | | | | much more easily translate that letting go from |
| Anger is certainly an unpleasant emotion to carry | | | | the waking state of meditation to other parts of |
| around, and now scientists are starting to really | | | | our waking life than we can from our sleep state. |
| focus on the link between anger and ill-health. Just | | | | So, when you learn, through meditation, to let go, |
| as stress erodes body systems so does anger. | | | | you can then learn to let go in everyday, waking |
| Stress and anger may be different emotions | | | | activities as well. |
| arising from different triggers, but their negative | | | | Strengthens Intuition |
| effect on the body is quite similar. AND, their | | | | We each are endowed with the most powerful |
| deflation response to meditation is also nearly the | | | | tool to guide us to good health: our intuition. |
| same. | | | | Unfortunately, most of us do not listen to our |
| Both stress and anger are emotions we must | | | | intuition as much as we could. We miss out on so |
| HOLD ON TO to carry them in our emotional | | | | much information by not listening. |
| systems. So, when we find stillness -- even for a | | | | When you meditate, you provide the silence and |
| brief while -- we break that cycle because we let | | | | stillness from which you can start to develop a |
| go. At first, the anger and stress return after | | | | stronger relationship with you intuition. And, your |
| meditating, but bit by bit they begin to decrease | | | | intuition really can provide you with ALL THE |
| as we learn to let go more and more. | | | | ANSWERS you need to be healthy. The |
| Increases Happiness | | | | meditation benefit with your intuition is really |
| Consider a happiness continuum from despair right | | | | two-pronged: first, you create an environment in |
| up through happiness to pure joy. At any given | | | | which you can hear your intuition better and then, |
| moment in time, we have a happiness "set-point," | | | | you become more inclined to listen and act on |
| a kind of happiness home level. We may go up | | | | what your intuition tells you. |
| and down from there, but when we are on an | | | | SUMMARY |
| even keel, we return to that same level. | | | | If you are tuned into your intuition, living in a state |
| Meditation helps to RAISE THAT SET-POINT. The | | | | of joy, allowing your good health and free of |
| more you meditate, the happier you get overall -- | | | | anger and stress, you will live your optimal life, |
| your highs are higher and your lows are higher, | | | | including your optimal health. Mediation helps you |
| too! | | | | move toward all these goals. |