BENEFITS OF
VEDIC MEDITATION
Benefits
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There are so many benefits to practising Vedic Meditation. Here are some of the main ones.
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Sleep better
Good quality rest is the foundation for our lives and is one of the first improvements meditators of this technique notice very quickly.
It’s during sleep that your body clears out stress, repairs and regenerates itself and charges your batteries for the day ahead. It's also when your brain converts memories from short to long-term memory and applies the 'tags' that allow you to recall events. For example, a dinner with your friends could be tagged with: the event, the restaurant, the cuisine type and specific dishes chosen or rejected, the decor, the attendees, the staff, the conversation and your emotions during the event. When you don't have enough sleep, not all tags will get applied which can result in your taking a few prompts (or until you hit a tag that was applied) to remember an event.
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Unfortunately, stress agitates your nervous system disrupting your ability to get to sleep and stay asleep so this natural healing, recharging and memory processing time is missed and, contrary to popular belief, can’t be caught up on at weekends or on holiday!
Vedic Meditation calms the nervous system enabling you to consistently get a good night’s rest and all the benefits that brings to your health, attitude and outlook on life.
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Think better
Stress activates the reptilian part of the brain responsible for keeping you alive - your fight / flight / freeze mechanism. This part of your brain isn’t interested in making good decisions about the future, performing well in a meeting or interview or being nice to the people around you, it’s concerned with keeping you alive. Now that was ok on the odd occasion when our ancestors were faced with a saber-toothed tiger, but not so helpful when it happens to us today during the daily rush hour commute, a difficult work meeting or when dealing with an upset child or partner.
When you practice Vedic Meditation your stress chemical levels reduce enabling your prefrontal cortex to take back control. This is the CEO of the brain and as such is an expert in making good decisions and handling challenging situations.
Also, unlike Mindfulness techniques (which use only a small area of the brain), Vedic Meditation gives the whole brain a workout. This is seen by an increase in alpha brain waves, beefs up the creative right side of the brain (most of us are left brain thinkers) and thickens the corpus callosum, the connective tissue between the left and right sides of the brain. This all leads to improvements in retaining and recalling information, decision-making speed, planning, creative thinking and clarity of thought.
Many studies have also shown the benefit that this type of meditation has in preventing degenerative mental illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Dementia.
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Feel better
Your ability to fight infections and heal quickly is impacted by stress weakening the immune system and disrupting your sleep, the time when the body is meant to be most active in repair and regeneration.
After a bad night's sleep, most of us will hit the caffeine and sugar in an attempt to wake up. This makes you feel better for a short while, but your body, already tired and way behind on its to-do list from the night before, now has to deal with this new influx of toxins, using up time and energy it was going to use for regenerative or immune system work. In a desperate attempt to catch up, instead of processing these toxins, the body just stores them in fat cells to deal with at a later time. This can also be why losing weight becomes difficult as your body doesn't want to clear the fat cells that contain these toxins until a time when it can cope with them.
As previously mentioned, regular practice of Vedic Meditation helps to improve your sleep which supports your body’s natural ability to fight infection and heal itself. Add in 2 further periods of rest and repair during the day when you’re meditating, and your body is on the fast track to much better health and quite possibly hold at bay some of the biggest illnesses in the world today - high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease, and cancers.
Our thoughts also affect how we feel, so having a clearer, calmer mind will positively improve how you feel and help you make decisions that support a healthier lifestyle.
Look better
Being stressed and tired ages you – both inside and out.
Stress chemicals released during fight / flight / freeze have a highly corrosive effect on the body. This system was never designed to be consistently on, which, thanks to our manic lifestyles, it often is. So the modern body is having to process a lot more of these chemicals than it was originally intended to do. Add in a disrupted sleep pattern and your poor body doesn’t have the time or energy for the repair and regeneration normally on its nightly to-do list.
Vedic Meditation reverses this by providing incredibly deep levels of rest that boost your body’s rejuvenation system and, studies have shown, can actually reverse your biological age!
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Live better
When you’re well-rested you can think more clearly and as a result, tend to make better healthier life choices.
You’re also much happier and positive which makes you someone people want to be around, so all your relationships improve, both personal and professional, and you begin to love life again.
Meditation isn’t just about quietening your mind for a few minutes of peace. It's about introducing that quiet into every moment of your everyday life. This technique really does improve all areas of your life and can be a life-changing experience for you and those around you.
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