1. yogaprivatelessons:

    There are so many advantages to meditation.

    Physiological benefits:
    1- It lowers oxygen consumption.
    2- It decreases respiratory rate.
    3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
    4- Increases exercise tolerance.
    5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
    6- Good for people with high blood pressure.
    7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
    8- Decreases muscle tension
    9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
    10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
    11- Helps in post-operative healing.
    12- Enhances the immune system.
    13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
    14- Enhances energy, strength and vigor.
    15- Helps with weight loss
    16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
    17- Higher skin resistance
    18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
    19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
    20- Decreases the aging process.
    21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
    22- Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
    23- Makes you sweat less
    24- Cure headaches & migraines
    25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
    26- Reduced Need for Medical Care
    27- Less energy wasted
    28- More inclined to sports, activities
    29- Significant relief from asthma
    30- Improved performance in athletic events
    31- Normalizes to your ideal weight
    32- Harmonizes our endocrine system
    33- Relaxes our nervous system
    34- Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
    35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

    Psychological benefits:
    36- Builds self-confidence.
    37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
    38- Resolve phobias & fears
    39- Helps control own thoughts
    40- Helps with focus & concentration
    41- Increase creativity
    42- Increased brain wave coherence.
    43- Improved learning ability and memory.
    44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
    45- Increased emotional stability.
    46- improved relationships
    47- Mind ages at slower rate
    48- Easier to remove bad habits
    49- Develops intuition
    50- Increased Productivity
    51- Improved relations at home & at work
    52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
    53- Helps ignore petty issues
    54- Increased ability to solve complex problems
    55- Purifies your character
    56- Develop will power
    57- Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
    58- React more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
    59- Increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
    60- Higher intelligence growth rate
    61- Increased job satisfaction
    62- Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
    63- decrease in potential mental illness
    64- Better, more sociable behavior
    65- Less aggressiveness
    66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
    67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
    68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
    69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
    70- Increases sense of responsibility
    71- Reduces road rage
    72- Decrease in restless thinking
    73- Decreased tendency to worry
    74- Increases listening skills and empathy
    75- Helps make more accurate judgments
    76- Greater tolerance
    77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
    78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
    79- Develops emotional maturity

    Spiritual benefits:
    80- Helps keep things in perspective
    81- Provides peace of mind, happiness
    82- Helps you discover your purpose
    83- Increased self-actualization.
    84- Increased compassion
    85- Growing wisdom
    86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
    87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
    88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
    89- Increased acceptance of oneself
    90- Helps you learn forgiveness
    91- Changes attitude toward life
    92- Creates a deeper relationship with God/Goddess/All-That-Is
    93- Attain enlightenment
    94- Greater inner-directedness
    95- Helps living in the present moment
    96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
    97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
    98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
    99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
    100- Increases the synchronicity in your life & raises your vibration