Benefits of Meditation and importance of Mental health.

What is mental health?

It is a person’s well being whether it is emotional, psychological and social. It influences our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. How the person acts or feels it’s all related to mental health.

A disturbance in functioning of any of these is associated with Mental illness. Mental illness starts in the brain based on any of the causes that the person experienced. There are many types of mental disorders like: - Anxiety disorder, Mood disorder, Eating disorder, personality disorder, Psychotic disorder, Dementia, Autism.

Mental health is of great concern in today’s world. Around 400 million people currently are suffering from mental health problems.

Mental health should be considered as important as ones physical health. It is as important as one person suffering from viral fever and the other from depression.

Anxiety is something everyone has gone through once in their life, it’s a feeling of restlessness, fear but one’s these feeling started affecting one’s daily life it is an anxiety disorder.

There are many reasons that causes mental health problems includes childhood trauma, stress, loneliness, losing a loved one, social isolation.

There are no particular ways like tests or anything to know if a person has any issue, one should look out for possible signs like backing down family, friends ,sleeping more or less than usual, constantly having low energy, hearing voices, delusions, feeling alone or hopeless all the time.

There are many ways for dealing with mental health issues.

• Talking therapies

• Yoga

• Eating balanced diet

• Taking proper sleep

• Meditation

The method differs from person to person.

"Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language." — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

Meditation

Mediation is a practice where people focus on their inner selves. It employs a strategy to develop attention and awareness to produce a cognitively clear, emotionally peaceful, and stable condition, such as mindfulness or focusing the mind on a certain object, thought, or activity.

“Be simple, natural and wise. In meditation, you can expand your consciousness.” - Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation is being practiced all over the world. Mindfulness meditation can help reduce effects associated with chronic pain, such as depression or decreased quality of life. In general, it involves being open, conscious, and accepting while also being aware of and participating in the current moment.

Concentrative Meditation involves focusing your mind on one thing while tuning out everything else. To achieve a higher level of being, the objective is to truly experience whatever you are concentrating on, whether it be your breath, a particular word, or a mantra.

Meditation helps one to be more aware, increases their concentration, helps in stress management, anxiety reduction, improves ones immunity, sense of calm, inner peace and especially general vision on life.

Meditation is considered as one of the best ways to treat mental health issues. One should atleast spend 10mins meditating daily. It gives relaxation. One should slowly start meditating and focus on their inner selves and what you’re feeling.

Meditation was practiced as religious traditions by many in early times especially by Buddhism. As more individuals become aware of its many health advantages, meditation is becoming more and more popular.

“Meditation helps to change your perspective. It improves the way you perceive things. It improves your interaction with people around you –what you say, how you react and act in different situations; you become more aware.” - Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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