8 Great Side Effects of Meditation

1) You are Calmer and Less Stressed Out! Stressful events and circumstances have less and less of an effect on your peace of mind and happiness. You have fewer concerns and fears about your future, and you know they will continue to soften, and eventually disintegrate completely. The knot of anxiety in your stomach (if you had one before) has loosened and is almost or completely gone. ow and then, you feel yourself tighten up inside when something seems amiss or worrisome ! but that"s the point# You feel yourself tighten up ! you notice what$s happening in your body# You experience it as something you can change. %n fact, you seem to be able to loosen up almost immediately simply by noticing how you"re feeling and deciding to feel differently. & recent study in the &merican 'ournal of (sychology confirmed what meditators have known for years) meditation is an awesome way to chill-out and de-stress! 2) Your are Happier and Have a Consistent Sense of ell!ein" You feel better, eat better, breathe better, move better, and make better choices for your health, in general, throughout your day. You have more energy, yet it"s modulated and consistent ! unlike the frenetic bursts of energy you may have experienced in the past. Your body is more at peace. You experience *happiness for happiness" sake,* +oy and contentment that don"t depend on outer circumstances but arise from your centre without respect to what"s *really* happening. , recent ground-breaking studies in &ustralia demonstrate this. %n one, researchers .armody and /aer found that sub+ects could indeed increase their overall sense of happiness and well-!ein" throu"h daily meditation .

#) You $a%e &etter 'ecisions (aster) with Confidence* You are $ore +fficient and &etter at $ulti,as%in"* You have new insight into 0uestions or problems that used to confuse or overwhelm you. You hear from your intuition clearly and often throughout your day. You see more options in any given field of choices, even as you are able to identify and select the best option in less time and with less mental effort than you use to re0uire. You have a new serenity about the outcomes of your decisions. 1avid 2rew recently wrote in The &cademy of 3anagement 'ournal that meditators showed increased productivity and performance in the wor% place* They also reported higher +ob satisfaction and improved interpersonal relationships and were more likely to be working in higher levels of organi4ations. -) You are $uch $ore (ocused and Less Li%ely to .et 'istracted* Your ability to concentrate on any given problem and stay with it until you solve has increased exponentially. %t continues to become stronger and clearer. You are able to switch almost effortlessly between life roles and tasks, responding appropriately to diverse situations and demands with little or no frustration or transition time. & team at the 5niversity of 6ashington teamed up with a neuroscientist at the 5niversity of &ri4ona to prove this. %n a study published in the (roceedings of 7raphics %nterface in 3ay of ,89,, they showed that the mindful-meditation group reported less stress as they performed the multitasking test than the non-meditating group, had increased focus and were more productive with their time* /) You are $ore Creative and Your 0nner 1rtist has +mer"ed* 6ith consistent meditation, you are accessing your right brain which is more open and less limited in it$s thinking. The right brain tends to think in concepts and possibilities, and is not limited by reason and logic. To the right brain, anything is possible and it loves to :think out of the box.; &dditionally, during meditation, you reach the dream-like states of alpha and theta. &lbert <instein mentally performed many of

his scientific experiments in his mind$s eye, whilst in these relaxing mental states. 6hich is probably why he was famous for saying that :imagination is much more important than knowledge.; %n the &pril ,89, edition of 2rontiers in .ognition, a study revealed that the participants who practiced open-monitoring meditation increased their creative thin%in" to come up with new ideas easier* http=>>www.frontiersin.org>.ognition>98.??@A>fpsyg.,89,.8899B>abstract 2) Your &rain is Stron"er and Superior %n 2ebruary of ,89,, a fascinating study was published in the 2rontiers in Cuman euroscience that showed that people who were long-term meditators actually had physically superior brains. They compared 3D% images of the brain of 988 non-meditators and 988 long-term meditators. The meditating group had a higher level of gyrification (which is a folding of the cerebral cortex that may be associated with faster information processing.) &dditionally, it was shown that that, the more years a person had been meditating, the more gyrification their 3D%s revealed. So) it3s nice to %now that you can chill-out and "et smarter at the same time! 4) You are $ore 5roductive You "et more done in less time) usin" less ener"y - and you en6oy the process! You spend an hour doing what would have re0uired at least two or three before you adopted a daily meditation practice. /est of all, during that hour, you find yourself needing to invest only a fraction of the mental and physical energy you would have needed to invest before. This is probably why the corporate head0uarters at 2acebook have added a meditation room and why 7oogle has sent over 9888 employees to a meditation-training program.

7) You are Healthier Degular meditators have been touting the mental, physical and spiritual benefits of meditation for ages. ow science is actually testing out and proving their claims. & ground breaking study, published in the +ournal .irculation= .ardiovascular Euality and Futcomes tested ,89 people with coronary heart disease and found that those who took a meditation class had a G@H reduction in their overall risk of heart attack, stroke and death. %t$s may be an initial study, but that$s a pretty impressive figure. &dditionally, the side effects of meditation seem more appealing than some of the risky ones that % have read on medication labels.

Sound 1ppealin" 8 &s you can see, from this impressive list, meditators have greater focus and mental clarity, better memories, learn rapidly and easily, and demonstrate better analytical skills, foresight and +udgment. They are healthier, happy and more productive. Fn every measure, they$re :brighter,; in the truest sense of the word. 0n short9 their !rains 6ust wor% !etter* Sound fun and appealin"8 There are many places to learn meditation ! it"s a simple techni0ue that can benefit your life in so many ways. %n (enang, you can learn at a 3editation .entre from a teacher with more than ,8 years experience of Ien meditation. %t is located at /ayan Jepas in a 0uiet suburban estate= Caeng 6on Ien .entre, 99& (ersiaran Kelicap ?, 99A88 /ayan Jepas. (h= LB8G-B99 MB@A NN haengwon4cOgmail.com NN www.facebook.com>haengwon4en