FIR Episode 34: Meditation in 2022

Is meditation more effective than medication in managing your mental health and health in general in 2022?

Lifestyle practices such as meditation are the cornerstone of taking control of your health.

Systematic reviews on meditation have also found beneficial effects on anxiety, depression and chronic pain scores.

Not only this, but physical effects are also present.

Other physical benefits include an improved immune system, decreases in inflammatory chemicals and increases in anti-inflammatory chemicals, and markers of metabolic syndrome such as insulin resistance.

Learn about the deeper research into how meditation helps.

For example, mediation can change the part of the brain that can cause you to react negatively.

Discover the Harvard mindfulness study that showed how powerful meditation can be in just eight weeks.

In just eight weeks, participants in a Harvard meditation study changed their brains to a point where they became less reactive to stress. Not only that the effects of their meditation practice remained even when they were not meditating!

What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation?   

Find out about the most popular form of meditation in 2022 and how it can help improve the quality of your day and the quality of your interactions.

For instance, one small study found that just five minutes of mindfulness daily could help people think about others more.

Meditation can also help you become a better listener.

Learn about the studies around presence and social interactions which benefit from mediation.

Most importantly, find out how to best get started on your mediation journey.

Getting started can be easy with some guidance, discover a simple way to start.

All this and more in this episode of Free and Inspired radio.