HOW TO MEDITATE
Simple meditation for beginners
Sit or lie comfortably. You may even want to invest in a meditation chair or cushion.
Close your eyes. ...
Make no effort to control the breath; simply breathe naturally.
Focus your attention on the breath and on how the body moves with each inhalation and exhalation.
Meditation will make you more productive. It might sound strange that sitting still and doing nothing for a period of time will make you more productive, but it’s true. Before diving into what to do, it’s worth going over why you should meditate in the first place.
I’ve combined benefits observed by neurological research with my own personal observations over the three years I’ve been meditating (which are slightly less scientific). Some benefits of meditation include:
Meditation has great calming effects. Research has shown that EEG activity actually decreases during meditation.1 Meditation also helps you to recharge so you have more energy throughout the day.
The practice increases the blood flow in your brain, and according to one neurophysiologist, “rewires the circuitry in your brain”. ((Source: Zen and the Brain book))
It’s been proven that people who meditate need less sleep.2
Meditation makes your brain age slower and increases the amount of grey matter in your brain.3 Grey matter is responsible for muscle control, seeing, hearing, memory, emotions, and speech.4
Meditation makes it much easier to focus and achieve flow, that feeling of being completely immersed and energized by something. It also allows you to procrastinate less, and get more done in the same amount of time.
The practice has been even shown to boost students’ test scores (by 11% in one study)!5
Meditation helps your mind defragment your thoughts so you can make better sense of them, and step away from them to gain perspective.
Needless to say, there are a ton of benefits to adopting a regular meditation practice, and these are just a few of them.
neurological research with my own personal observations over the three years I’ve been meditating (which are slightly less scientific). Some benefits of meditation include:
Meditation has great calming effects. Research has shown that EEG activity actually decreases during meditation.1 Meditation also helps you to recharge so you have more energy throughout the day.
The practice increases the blood flow in your brain, and according to one neurophysiologist, “rewires the circuitry in your brain”. ((Source: Zen and the Brain book))
It’s been proven that people who meditate need less sleep.2
Meditation makes your brain age slower and increases the amount of grey matter in your brain.3 Grey matter is responsible for muscle control, seeing, hearing, memory, emotions, and speech.4
Meditation makes it much easier to focus and achieve flow, that feeling of being completely immersed and energized by something. It also allows you to procrastinate less, and get more done in the same amount of time.
The practice has been even shown to boost students’ test scores (by 11% in one study)!5
Meditation helps your mind defragment your thoughts so you can make better sense of them, and step away from them to gain perspective.
Needless to say, there are a ton of benefits to adopting a regular meditation practice, and these are just a few of them.