Main benefits of mindfulness practice

Now that we know what mindfulness is, we will know what benefits it brings us to practice this meditation technique, but first, we have to know that one of the most important aspects of this technique is that it can help us manage stress and develop personal strengths such as patience, trust and empathy, qualities that in the past were understood as personal gifts and today, thanks to numerous investigations about mindfulness, have shown that they are skills that can be acquired by anyone.

 

It is important to know that the purpose of mindfulness is to achieve a deep state of consciousness and practice of this technique we can make our consciousness to relax and not prepare judgments of our sensations, feelings or thoughts, obtaining thus, the following benefits:

 

 

• Boost our capacity for perspective: Mindfulness offers us the possibility to study our own problems in a more effective way.

 

• Reduces stress: The hormone that generates stress is reduced in great quantity

 

• Improves the academic performance: Mindfulness improves the cognitive skills of students.

 

• Protects the brain from mental illness: Meditation helps the growth of axonal density and the increase of myelin.

 

• Help control the brain: Meditation helps control the processing of pain and emotions.

 

• It makes us better people: It makes us more compassionate when interacting with others.

 

• Improves our mental health in a generalized way: Mindfulness improves the underlying cerebral mechanisms.

 

• Useful during the cold season: Meditation and mindfulness help reduce the symptoms of colds.

 

• Effective in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders: Meditation and mindfulness increase neuroplasticity in adult brains.

 

• Reduces the risk of depression in adolescents: Work in education helps reduce stress, anxiety and depression of students.

 

• Help to lose weight more effectively, healthily and balanced: The practice of mindfulness helps you lose weight more effectively and more easily.

 

• It helps us to sleep better: Not only does full attention help the control of emotions but it also benefits us when it comes to receiving sleep.