How does Meditation relate to Emotional Health
This article will introduce the connection between meditation and emotional health and give some suggestions for techniques to try. (Please note that what is described here is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric treatment in cases of mental disorders).
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By now we’ve all come across the list of benefits associated with a regular meditation practice. Meditation decrease blood pressure, lowers levels of anxiety, reduces insomnia, helps bring greater mental focus, increases our sense of well-being, helps us to relax, and increases our energy.
When I embarked on my meditation journey I started to experience that meditation is also one of the many ways that we can rewire our brain and condition our mind!
How it Works
Meditation disrupts our habitual mental and emotional patterns by concentrating our attention in a different way.
Meditation also creates the opportunity for us to access the resources within us that we don’t normally connect to in our regular state of consciousness. These resources can then become the tools or strategies that we reach for when dealing with life’s challenges and difficulties.
Meditation has been described as a ‘stylized mental technique’, ‘an altered state of consciousness’, and a ‘self-regulation practice’ that teaches you to control where your attention goes.
Most of our thoughts and emotions are generated in our subconscious mind and only a tiny fraction of these come into our conscious awareness. Since we cannot control the generation of our thoughts and emotions, our power lies in the ways in which we interact with, process, and condition them.
We can learn to develop the internal awareness to be able to direct where we consistently focus our attention. This is one of the most powerful ways to begin to gain emotional mastery and freedom.
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