How can meditation relieve stress and improve a caregiver's health?

Shelley Webb

Nursing

Meditation can reduce stress by helping caregivers to switch off the worries that can plague them throughout the day. It quiets the mind and allows a caregiver to clear their head from of all the daily responsibilities. Meditation can also improve caregivers' health. Lowered blood pressure, fewer headaches, improvement in other stress-related ailments and even pain relief have all been proven to be part of the benefits of meditation.

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Meditation

"In today's busy world we all become very distracted. Meditation techniques help you tune out the distraction and shut out the babble. This can also help you learn to focus more clearly and to accomplish specific goals, such as reduction of pain. Studies show that in people in deep meditation produce theta waves on an EEG. Theat waves are is associated with relaxed attention. Alpha waves are also more abundant, which are associated with wakeful rest."

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