The benefits of practising mindfulness
Research suggests that engaging in mindfulness can bring the following benefits:
- improved health and wellbeing
- greater emotional balance and self-compassion
- clarity and focus
- improved resilience and quicker recovery following stressful events
- improved immunity, mental and physical stamina
- improved sleep
- possible slowing down of cellular aging and neural degeneration
- the development of patience and open-mindedness
Mindfulness can help with the following:
- anxiety
- stress (which can be a factor involved in cancer, heart disease and dementia)
- depression - mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce the relapse into depression and can act as a key natural anti-depressant
- irritability
- over-thinking, over-analysing
- negative self-judgment
Mindfulness can help to reduce the impact of pain and cancer, as well as to manage and alleviate the symptoms of menopause.
Engaging in mindfulness can help to develop emotional resilience, which is linked to a longer and healthier life.
Please see the material quoted on the References page from which this information derives.