Many do not know that there are actually tons of benefits that come from meditation other than balancing the chakras. Meditation benefits range from those benefiting the mind, health and body, soul and spirit. Such benefits of meditation are actually scientifically proven as well, as numerous of scientific studies have been done on the benefits of meditation, both physical and mental.
As I strongly encourage regular use of meditation to help balance and maintain the seven chakras, I can’t help but emphasize the wide variety of additional benefits you can experience and take from meditating as well. To help you better understand all that can be gained from meditating regularly, I’ve put together this ultimate list of meditation benefits for the mind, body, and spirit.
Meditation Benefits of the Mind
Lessens worry and anxiety- Increases awareness and relaxation
- Increases mental strength and focus
- Better cognitive skills and enhances creative thinking
- Improves your mood and emotional intelligence
- Reduces and helps relieve depression
- Increases and enhances the ability for the brain to generate gamma waves
- Enhances your ability to work under stress
- Improves information processing and decision making
- Helps you to ignore distractions and manage ADHD
- Improves the memory and learning capabilities
- Improves your overall psychological well being
- Increases job satisfaction
- Establishes a calm mind
- Improves communication
- Improves your mood and behavior by increased production of serotonin
- Improves emotional stability
- Provides you with more mental power during the day
- Helps to create and establish positive social connections
- Reduces mood swings
Meditation Benefits of the Body
Increases energy by helping you gain an inner source of energy- Helps to reduce alcohol and substance abuse
- Stronger levels of pain tolerance: makes you feel less pain and even reduces pain and suffering by 90%, relieving pain better than morphine
- Reduces blood pressure and decreases inflammatory disorders
- Restores balanced function to the digestive system
- Relieves muscle tension
- Diminishes the intensity of headaches and migranes
- Relieves insomnia
- Helps with losing and maintaining weight
- Strengthens the immune system
- Increases tolerance for exercise
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering levels of blood lactate
- Improves sleep by helping to provide a deeper sleep and more hours each night
- Improves your breathing and heart rate
- Improves your body’s metabolism
- Reduces aging and helps you age healthily
- Helps with prevention of smoking and emotional eating
- Helps you to fight against diseases
- Helps to be more physically alert and active
Meditation Benefits of the Spirit
Balances the body’s chakras- Helps to prepare you for dealing with life’s stressful events
- Helps to create loving, harmonious relationships
- Increases optimism and happiness
- Increases life satisfaction
- Frees the mind of internal chatter and self-doubt
- Releases fears
- Gives you a sense of purpose
- Improves your outlook on life
- Provides you with better clarity
- Rejuvenates the mind, body, and soul
- Provides better developed intuition
- Creates a greater sense of confidence, self-esteem, and self-acceptance
- Helps one with getting rich both materialistically and non-materialistically
- Gives you the power to control your thoughts
- Helps you to understand your anger, sex, lust, love and ego
- Aids in helping you find out the truth of life
- Helps to know the mysteries of enlightenment
- Helps one to live like a lotus
- Increases compassion
- Brings harmony to your life
- Increases your levels of trust
- Decreases feelings of lonliness
- Develops a more forgiving personality
- Establishes unity with your consciousness