Meditation can lead to a plethora of life changing benefits. Here are just a few:
Decrease stress and anxiety
Generate kindness
Reduce negative emotions
Increase patience and tolerance
Reduce emotional eating
Increase imagination and creativity
Decrease feelings of loneliness
Improve sleep
Help fight addictions
Lengthen attention span
Help control pain (better than morphine)
Reduce age related memory loss
Reduce risk of heart disease and stroke
Affect genes that control stress and immunity
Decrease cellular level inflammations and inflammatory disorders like asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, or rheumatoid arthritis
Improve rapid memory recall
Decrease blood pressure
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