Demystifying Meditation

I spend my days devising ways to introduce meditation to the workplace.  It’s like playing matchmaker to your quiet, mousey friend from college and your sometimes loud and obnoxious class clown of a cousin.  The union makes no logical sense, but you just know they’re perfect for each other.

To that end, I’m constantly debunking preconceived notions that meditation is weird, new age-y, aligned with hippies or certain religions, opposed to certain religions, fluff, nonsense or a general waste of time.  I suppose meditation can be all of these, but to me, it’s a well-researched, tried and true way to reduce stress and improve health.  So today, I bring you a down-and-dirty list of non-mystical, data-derived benefits.

 

My Top 10 List of Non-Woo Woo 

Meditation Benefits

 1.       Meditation slows the heart rate 
 2.       Lowers blood pressure 
 3.       Raises levels of beneficial hormones
 4.       Reduces levels of harmful hormones 
 5.       Boosts the immune system
 6.       Restructures the brain
 7.       Improves insomnia and other sleep disorders 
 8.       Favorably impacts psychological and emotional conditions 
 9.       Opens you to intuition and inspiration 
10.    Makes you a nicer person

Meditation is a practical, natural way to reduce stress and improve health – a no-brainer, win-win for the workplace.