10 Life Changes You Can Experience by Mindfulness and Meditation
Though meditation has been around for thousands of years, it’s only now that meditation is becoming mainstream. Even the conservative medical community is singing the praises of meditation. Meditation is a simple and free tool that can enhance your life in many ways. If you’ve considered meditation but decided against it, now is the time to reconsider.
Though meditation has been around for thousands of years, it’s only now that meditation is becoming mainstream. Even the conservative medical community is singing the praises of meditation. Meditation is a simple and free tool that can enhance your life in many ways. If you’ve considered meditation but decided against it, now is the time to reconsider.
Meditation can enhance your life in many ways:
Meditation can increase self-confidence. Meditation can help to remove self-doubt and self-criticism. You will become more accepting of your shortcomings. When you are able to accept yourself, you believe that others will accept you, too.
Meditation reduces stress and anxiety. During meditation, you focus on something to the exclusion of all other thoughts. It’s not possible to feel stressed about your finances or your love life when 100% of your attention is focused on something else. You develop the ability to regulate and moderate your emotions through meditation.
Meditation provides a method for learning about yourself. Most of us possess a certain amount of blindness when it comes to our thoughts, behaviours, and tendencies. Meditation encourages self-examination and detachment.
Meditation can help you to see the truth. Meditation seeks to remove all of your preconceived ideas and put your emotions on the back burner. Without the influence of your beliefs and emotions, it’s much easier to catch a glimpse of reality. Your ability to make effective and intelligent decisions will grow.
Meditation gives your brain a rest. Your brain is constantly working. There’s not one moment of the day your brain isn’t running at full speed. Even while you’re dreaming, your brain is busy creating your dreams. When you become an effective meditator, your brain finally gets a chance to rest. You’ll be surprised how good just five minutes of meditation can feel. Many experienced meditators find that one minute of meditation per hour is very beneficial.
Meditation can improve concentration. Most forms of meditation require focusing on a thought or object, commonly your breath. All of this concentration practice will bleed over into other parts of your life. You become good at what you practice.
Meditation can make you more accepting of others. When you’re more able to see your own shortcomings compassionately, you’ll extend that same compassion to others. What would happen if everyone took the time to meditate?
Meditation can prolong your life. Meditation has been shown to slow the ageing process, both physical and mental. It’s possible this could increase longevity. At the very least, you’ll feel, look, and think better!
Meditation can boost your level of creativity. By eliminating your negative thoughts and beliefs, you’ll have greater access to your creative abilities. Lower levels of stress also increase the opportunity to put your mind to good use. You might be a lot more creative than you’ve given yourself credit for in the past!
Meditation can enhance your health. Studies have shown that meditation is can help reduce blood pressure, enhance the function of the immune system and reduce the anxiety.
Meditation is one of the most powerful self-development tools available. A short meditation session each day can provide profound results. The benefits aren’t limited to your psychology. Studies have demonstrated physical benefits, too. Consider adding meditation to your daily routine for 30 days and see the results for yourself.
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When you’re dealing with the effects of narcolepsy or a related sleep disorder, you’re bearing a load most people don’t. That makes it even more important to use every tool available to support yourself, so you can live the life you deserve.
Our Mindful Living program is a 8-week science based training program designed to help you discover how mindfulness can make positive shifts in your physical, mental and emotional well-being with Narcolepsy.It’s designed especially for people with narcolepsy and other sleep disorders, with an understanding of the specific challenges you face.
Research has shown that people who are more mindful are generally happier. They report less anxiety and fewer symptoms of depression, anger or worry. They experience less stress, more gratitude, hope, and vitality.
But simply downloading an app doesn’t work for most of us. We need more guidance and support to start on our mindfulness journey, and stay the course. Our Mindful Living program walks you through everything you need to embrace mindfulness and enjoy the profound positive impact it can have on your life.
Each session is a deep dive into a specific element of mindfulness. Over eight weeks you will build your knowledge and capability to truly benefit from mindful living.
The program is available both in a live group workshop format and as a self-paced online course.
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Each relationship is unique and the level of knowledge and understanding of lifestyle strategies varies between clients. For this reason the ratio of education to the facilitation of conversations helping clients to gain insight and awareness also varies. What remains consistent is the support, motivation and cultivation of awareness for each client.
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