The Many Benefits of Daily Meditation

The opportunity to co-create a "Meditation Week" with practitioners around the world is exciting and an honor. For those not familiar with meditation understanding the benefits can go a long way in educating the public at large.

Meditation can be considered on the basic level as a stress-reduction relaxation technique that has been found to help people of all ages and backgrounds. Here are some of the claimed benefits:

* Decrease phobias, fears, terror, worries

* Better able to deal with changes, transitions (divorce, death, relocating, family member in military, having a sibling with special needs, health challenges)

* Fall asleep peacefully and quickly * Have a more restful sleep * Decrease moodiness, irritability

* Increase creativity * Increase positive attitude * Increase social skills * Increase self-belief

* Increase test scores * Have greater attendance

* Visit doctor or therapist less * Manage pain during and after medical procedures and treatments

* Manage anxiety associated with hospital stays and treatments

* Sleep better when traveling, time changes, hotels, airplanes * Self-soothe

* Increase ability to focus and concentrate

* Recover from PTSD, Abuse, Neglect, Trauma

* Decrease anger * Mental Health Challenges, Depression, Bi-Polar, Anxiety Disorders

* Special Needs, Autism, Asperger, OCD, ADD, ADHD, SPD

These are all good reasons and more to endorse meditation practices and promoting a week to do so.

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