108 Benefits of 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 vigour.  
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 behaviour 
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 judgements 
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 perspective81- 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 learn forgiveness  
91- Changes attitude toward life  
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God  
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 

Other Benefits
101 Meditation is also completely FREE!  
102 It requires no special equipment, 
103 Not complicated to learn. 
104 It can be practiced anywhere,  
105 at any given moment,  
106 Not time consuming (15-20 min. per day is good). 
107 Best of all, meditation has NO negative side effects. Bottom line, there is nothing but positive to be gained from it!  

Benefit of Benefits
108 With such a huge list of benefits, the question you should ask yourself is, “why am I not meditating yet?”