Benefits of Meditating

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As you begin meditating you will find:

• reduced tension
• enhanced mental focus / concentration ability
• diminishing of the normal sub-text / mind chatter / mental agitation / distraction that seems to run continuously through the mind entangled in the web of the intelligence of concerns.
• more images and sounds - possibly linked to future events / experiences
• Increased intuition, insight, creativity, tranquility
• dreams become more vivid, even lucid
• better dream recall
• higher sense of well being, vitality, aliveness
• immediate state of relaxation, peace, joy, bliss and Love
• greater self awareness and powers of mind*

Studies in prisons have shown that meditation leads to a

• drop in psychological distress
• more disciplined and co-operative inmates
• less prone to depression and hostility