When we experience stress every day, it causes physical damage to our mind and body. Meditation could be the answer to this problem. Meditation affects the body in the opposite way that stress does. Not only does it calm the mind and the body, it helps the body to repair itself and prevents additional damage to the body as well. So, what is the link between meditation and your body?

Meditation can reverse your stress response and thus protecting you from the effects of chronic stress. According to a research which compared a meditating group to a non meditating group, they found that the nonmeditating group had worse stress responses such as high blood pressure, pain syndromes and other conditions compared to the meditating group. Experts have confirmed that any condition caused or worsened by stress can be alleviated through meditation.

When you are meditating, you are relaxing your mind and body. This helps to ease your anxiety, slow your metabolism, reduce your heart rate and breathing. You start using oxygen more efficiently and you also sweat less. When you do it daily, your immune functions start improving. Once your mind is cleared of its stress, your creativity also increases.

In people who are meditating, brain scans have shown that there is an increase in activity in areas that control metabolism and heart rate. Buddhist monks have shown that meditation produces long-lasting changes in brain activity areas involved in memory, attention, learning and perception.

Meditation also helps ward off illness and infections. Essentially, it is an immune booster. When you are relaxed, you are less prone to suffering infectious disease. Whereas for stressed people, their bodies are already physically damaged and their immune functions are already low, so it does not take much to get them sick.

Although meditation is a little difficult to start, it is not difficult to learn. All you need is practice. Overtime, you will be able to meditate properly and clear your mind of the stressors. You too will soon be able to enjoy the benefits that meditation has to offer.