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Mindfulness is gaining popularity as a lifestyle concept: choosing to cultivate a more focused awareness of your moment-by-moment life experience. What is the point? Gaining deeper contentment, inner peace, and greater clarity of intention.
The results of cultivating a more mindful lifestyle include less depression and anxiety, increased clarity regarding goals and the path to achieving your goals, more peaceful relationships, greater emotional resilience and acceptance of life's challenges. In general, feeling better emotionally and physically, as well as more and faster accomplishments.
Much has been claimed in the way of benefits of meditation over the years. Most of the claims have been subjected to ongoing studies which have shown that it does indeed impart many of the benefits claimed. In a 2003 article in Psychology Today, Colin Allen says, "The brain waves of meditators show why they're healthier. Neuroscientists have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex—brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. In other words, they were calmer and happier than before."
Some benefits meditation has been proven to offer us are:
- Reduced anxiety
- Increased happiness or contentment with life
- Improved immune system
- Reduced stress
- Greater stress tolerance
- Greater concentration
- Better ability to engage in mindful behavior
- Improved performance
- Improved leadership ability
- Increased confidence
- Reduced pain