Is your daily routine so busy and full of activities that it’s causing you stress and agitation? But how can you reduce that stress and find peace in your life?
To achieve a sense of peace, you can turn to the gift of prayer and meditation. Just 20 minutes a day can make a huge difference by bringing peace and relaxation to your body and mind. A few minutes each day isn’t much, considering that the positive effects will last hours.
Many people practice meditation or prayer as way to help them relax and feel at peace. But what even the most devout meditator may not know is that both meditation and prayer have scientifically proven health benefits. If you don’t participate in either of these practices, you’ll surely want to give it a try once you read about the ways they help your brain—and even your physical appearance.
Benefits
When you meditate or pray, the activity of your brain moves from the right frontal cortex (where stress lives) to the calm left frontal cortex. The resultant feeling of relaxation slows down your breathing. When you breathe 6 breaths a minute, your breath becomes aligned with rhythms in the heart and this is good for cardiovascular health. Physical benefits include anti-aging, deep rest, decreased blood pressure, higher skin resistance, and easier breathing. Some mental benefits include greater creativity, decreased anxiety and depression, improved learning and memory, and increased happiness and emotional stability.
The more you pray or meditate the greater all these benefits will be. So find a peaceful place to sit and relax. Clear your mind. Breathe. Pray or meditate. You’ll likely experience a peaceful feeling almost immediately, but you’ll also gain long-term boons to your health that few other hobbies can offer.
Both peace of mind and happiness are true benefits of meditation and prayer. Everyone is seeking happiness in their lives, and when you’re able to find peace of mind through prayer and meditation, you’re also welcoming happiness into your life. By spending some time in personal reflection, you’ll gain a greater wisdom of your mission in this life, and you’ll be better able to appreciate all that you’ve been given, both good and bad. Meditation and prayer help banish those negative thoughts that threaten your peace of mind.
Meditation energizes your awareness, bringing both peace and wisdom to a busy mind. It expands one’s capacity to love, and heals broken hearts. It also dissolves many fears, replacing them with lightness and freedom from anxiety. But perhaps the greatest gift that meditation brings is the glow of inner peace that is both gentle and strong.
“Prayer is when you talk to God, meditation is when you listen to God”
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