Stress has become an inseparable part of our lifestyle. The way we work, the way we strive for a better living, has made us forget the importance of our health. We are just running along with the hands of the clock. With no time to sit and relax, Meditation, stress is something no one is actually addressing today. Now we often take stress as a very small thing. But do you know that this can turn into some major hhelarg issues, and sometimes fatal.
Prolonged untreated stress causes problems like hypertension, poor cardiac health, blood-related issues, mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, dementia, and memory loss. It can also trigger several other fatal issues like cardiac arrest and more! Here we will learn how meditation can help in treating stress and saving us from such life-threatening health hazards! This blog is all about rejuvenating oneself naturally without the need for any over-the-counter medicines! Before that, let’s understand stress!
How can stress affect us?
Stress sounds like purely a mental health issue, but it is more than that. Stress can weaken you in the following ways:
1- Mental Health issues like anxiety, depression, and more are the result of prolonged stress!
2-Physical health issues like unwanted weight loss, weight gain, and other chronic health issues arise from untreated stress that can also be fatal over time!
3- Emotional health: Stress weakens you emotionally and makes you feel vulnerable!
All aspects of our health are interdependent! If our mental health is imbalanced, it will make our body and emotional side prone to sickness. Therefore, a good harmony between all three aspects of health is very important. So reduce stress for a healthy and long life!
What is meditation?
Meditation is an ancient holistic healing technique where you relax your mind naturally by sitting with yourself and focusing on your breath, and being detached from the outer world. It revives your own senses, recharges you, and helps you to manage your mental health. For example, stress from your boss’s attitude might feel like a burden to you, you might feel agitated but could not speak at the same time, you are just keeping the emotions within you and working hard, leading to physical stress as well. The unattended feeling evolves into various health issues like migraine, fatigue, and so on! Meditation helps you keep calm, no matter what is going on outside.
The outside world remains the same, but the inside, you become so calm and strong that thoughts do not disturb or risk your mental health any more. You train your mind to deal with stress. The good oxytocin flow in your body helps the mind to stay in a relaxed mode, even if triggered by stressful stimuli. Talking about seps, you are sitting, chanting “aummmm” and breathing consciously, or focusing on something and breathing, these are some types of meditation that people practice for stress management.
Benefits of meditation in dealing with stress
There are several ways that meditation heals stress:
1- Deep Relaxation: Meditation helps in relaxing the mind. With every breath you inhale, while sitting calmly by yourself, relaxes your brain, washes away the negativity and strengthens your mind. You reach a state of deep relaxation amid the rushing lifestyle
2- Good Oxygen Flow: Making meditation a lifestyle helps you in dealing with stress very easily. A good flow of oxygen is one of the benefits of meditation. Imagine sitting amidst nature and meditating calmly, inhaling pure oxygen that is flowing through the blood to your mind and the organs, making everything within you healthy!
3- Good Glands: Meditating daily helps in low cortisol production, thereby treating stress and anxiety naturally.
4- Healthy Heart: Meditation helps in healing the heart and reducing heart-health related issues by keeping the heart beating most healthily!
5- Balanced BP: Meditation curbs stress and ensures good blood flow, and alleviates hypertension that mostly arises out of stress.
6- Slow ageing: Meditation helps in slowing down the ageing of the brain. It keeps it active and healthy, ensuring intelligence.
7- Better immunity: Meditation also immunises your body and mind. When you are mentally fit, your physical health improves automatically. Thereby, you become strong naturally.
8-Rejuvenation: Meditation relaxes you, and you feel naturally rejuvenated and fresh.
Meditating is one of the best medicines for stress. When you sit calmly for sometims you give rest and time to recharge your body, mind, and soul. This helps in great mental, physical, and emotional well-being! So, for a stress-free life, make meditation a part of your daily routine and harmonise your body with the mind and soul holistically!
