Do you know that regular meditation – for just a few minutes a day – reduces the production and ageing effects of stress hormones? Meditation has numerous health benefits, many associated with reducing and even reversing the signs of ageing, including skin, memory, energy, concentration, blood pressure. You don’t need any equipment or special skills. Rose-Marie outlines the benefits and provides simple how-to instructions in her post here.
Did you know that regular meditation can make you look and feel 10-20 years younger, increase health and longevity and prevent brain-deterioration, dramatically changing what we previously thought were inevitable processes?
Recent research reveals that meditation lowers the stress chemical in the blood called cortisol. Cortisol kills brain cells and leads to cognitive decline. Mediation also increases the blood flow to the brain, which results in less memory loss. It also lowers blood pressure and other markers of ageing and enhances psychological well-being. One of the most important discoveries is that meditation preserves the length of the telomeres (end cap of our DNA) wich is a very important marker of ageing and longevity: longer telomers = less illness and longer life.
The slow brainwaves produced by meditation also promote the release of healing, growing and rejuvenating hormones such as DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), melatonin and serotonin. DHEA is a hormone that helps…
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I have stopped meditating for almost three years until now. After reading htis I think I have to start it off immd. Thanks Chris for reminding me.
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🙌🏻 😘
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That sounds super relaxing!
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Thank you for sharing my post!! 🙂
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You’re welcome, meditation should be a prescribed treatment, it would help so many people with so many ills and worries, more appropriate than pills. 😊
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I would love to try meditation. I have anxiety that creeps up on my way too often and I would love to combat it before it happens rather than coping with it after.
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I would say that the first thing to do when you feel an anxiety attack coming on is concentrate on your breathing. Focus on your breath going in and out, don’t force it, just observe it. When you do this, your breathing will naturally slow down, as will your heart rate and before you know it you are in a meditative state and the anxiety lessens. Give your. Rain something else to focus on rather than the situation that is causing the anxiety. You could perhaps carry something small with you that you can either touch or just picture in your mind, something that brings you peace, a keepsake, a smooth pebble, anything you can focus on and help your brain relax, then slow your breathing. Hope this helps. 😊
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Thank you thank you for this.
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Let me know how you get on ☺️
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