Why Meditate?
There are so many benefits to practicing mindfulness, including:
- Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations
- Building strategies for managing stress
- Self-awareness in terms of emotions and feelings
- Increasing awareness in your surroundings
- Being in the “now”
- Eliminating negative emotions
- Increasing imagination and patience
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Meditation
Meditation allows you to focus on the present, keep your emotions in check, and lacks judgement. The practitioner eliminates negativity and gains concentration. What better way to eliminate negativity than to work on your calm?
Breath Awareness
Breath awareness meditation requires you to focus on your breathing patterns and block out any distracting thoughts. The practitioner breathes slowly and counts their breaths. This practice results in reduced anxiety, better concentration, and more emotional flexibility, which are all great skills to have in life.
Mantra Meditation
Mantra Meditation allows you to focus on your affirmations and block out any distracting thoughts. The practitioner repeats a phrase or syllables continuously. And the results? Overriding negativity and a decrease in anxiety, which we are all here for.