What are the benefits of active meditation?

Brooke Randolph

Marriage & Family Therapy

Meditation may be about creating a calm mind, but active meditation can be a step towards creating a calm body as well. When your active meditation is complete, if your activity was even minimally intense, your body will automatically recover if you let it. The combination of a calm mind and a calm body is relaxation -- active meditation is just a calm mind, so your body stays busy, giving you the added bonus of a calorie burn.

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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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