Sacred & Rooted

69 Why Meditation is Awesome for your Body (Part 2 of 3)

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Meditation is an anti-inflammatory and de-stressing tool for your body - free and available to you anywhere and at any time, who doesn't love that? :) 

Physical benefits to mediation mentioned in this episode are: 

  • Lowers blood pressure, lower resting heart rate, better overall cardiovascular heart health 
  • Increases healing on a cellular level 
  • Stress reduction by calming the nervous system
  • Pain Management: it can reduce pain perception by altering brain activity and promoting a sense of calmness    
  • Improved sleep quality - meditation helps you redirect racing or runaway thoughts, allows you to release tension in the body, and generally achieve a peaceful state which helps settle you down into a sound sleep 
  • Strengthens immune system by reducing stress hormones. Shuts down sympathetic system and moves you into parasympathetic state = a relaxed state of being
  • Pineal gland sends out all the feel good chemicals, oxytocin, the hormone melatonin, etc
  • Meditation studies confirmed less brain activation in the amygdala, with it becoming less activated after meditation training. The amygdala is a small almond shaped brain structure primarily involved in processing emotions, particularly fear and aggression and in forming emotional memories, as well as social cognition. It helps us regulate the body’s response to stress by sending signals to the hypothalamus. It also influences the activity of the autonomic nervous system, which controls functions like heart rate, blood pressure and breathing.
  • Neural Plasticity - you can rewire your brain depending on your thoughts, and so with consistent meditation your brain literally rewires itself, which leads to observable structural and functional changes to your brain particularly in the areas related to attention, emotional regulation, and cognitive function.

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    Intro Music by Sarah Russell (contact at: sarahkrussell @ gmail .com)

    Wishing you a beautiful day! Lisa xo

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