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That’s why I bring you 10 best WebMD articles on meditation, along with my favorite quotes.
1. “How Can You Use Meditation to Improve Memory and Focus?”
Meditation is a helpful tool for people trying to improve their focus and memory. It can help you zero in on your goals and make you more productive.
Focused meditation is just one of several techniques. You put all your attention on a specific sound, object, or sensation. This is more effective than trying to achieve mental clarity without one particular focal point.
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2. “Does Meditation Help You Sleep Better?”
For thousands of years, people have practiced meditation for spiritual awakening and awareness, but that is not meditation’s only benefit. Studies show that it helps to deepen sleep, even in people who do not have sleep issues.
Fortunately, meditation is free, and it doesn’t require equipment. You can also do it nearly anywhere.
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3. “How You Can Use Meditation to Manage Depression”
Meditation may not make all the symptoms of depression disappear but will help you manage them. It works by changing how your brain reacts to stress and anxiety. When you meditate, you can override the triggers stimulated from the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. This explains why your stress levels fall.
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4. “How Mindful Meditation and Yoga Can Help Treat ADHD”
Medication and therapy are good ways to manage your ADHD symptoms. But they’re not your only options. Research now shows that mindfulness meditation – where you actively observe your moment-to-moment thoughts and feelings- – may also be a good way to calm your mind and improve your focus.
More than a third of adults with ADHD use this practice, and about 40% give it high ratings, according to a 2017 survey by ADDitude magazine.
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5. “What Is Mantra Meditation, and How Does It Work?”
Effective meditation can be a great way to combat the stress of modern life. But there are many different meditation methods, and you may not be sure which one would work best for you. Read on to learn more about one of the oldest mediation tools described in the Indian scriptures — mantras.
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6. “What Are the Benefits of Meditation During Pregnancy?”
People have practiced meditation for thousands of years to help induce a deep state of relaxation and a sense of calm. Meditating has many benefits during all phases of life, and pregnancy is no exception. Stress can have a negative impact on your health and the health of your baby. Meditation can help you positively cope with stress and anxiety during pregnancy.
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7. “Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Meditation May Help”
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but many people find relief through meditation.
If you haven’t tried meditating to help manage your obsessive thoughts and actions, now’s a great time to get acquainted with the basic technique. Although meditation has been around for thousands of years, it’s recently enjoying renewed mainstream attention thanks to popular apps such as Headspace and Calm.
The holistic treatment is recommended by medical professionals, touted by meditation experts, and praised by people with OCD.
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8. “Meditation for Weight Loss: Emotional Eating, Mindfulness, and Awareness”
“People often put on weight from trying to comfort themselves with food,” says Adam Perlman, MD, executive director of Duke Integrative Medicine.
Although there’s not a lot of research showing that meditation directly helps you lose weight, meditation does help you become more aware of your thoughts and actions, including those that relate to food.
For example, a research review showed that meditation can help with both binge eating and emotional eating.
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9. “Meditation: Step-by-Step Stress Relief”
Stress can affect everyone in the family. … You can get it from work or being busy with carpool and keeping everyone happy. All that stress can lead everybody to make unhealthy choices — like skipping exercise to veg in front of the TV or choosing junk food instead of eating healthier.
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One great way to ease stress is with meditation. It’s an easy, fast, healthy way to relax, and it can make you feel better. It’s easy for you to teach the kids. You can even practice together.
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10. “Meditation Balances the Body’s Systems”
Most Americans aren’t raised to sit and say “Om.” But meditation has gained millions of converts, helping them ease chronic pain, anxiety, stress, improve heart health, boost mood and immunity, and resolve pregnancy problems.
Any condition that’s caused or worsened by stress can be alleviated through meditation, says cardiologist Herbert Benson, MD, well known for three decades of research into the health effects of meditation. He is the founder of the Mind/Body Institute at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
“The relaxation response [from meditation] helps decrease metabolism, lowers blood pressure, and improves heart rate, breathing, and brain waves,” Benson says.
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Complement this list of best meditation articles from WebMD with Buddhist Meditation: Tranquility, Imagination, and Insight by Kamalashila and then revisit WebMD articles on mindfulness and why you should read Mindful America by Jeff Wilson.
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