May is Mental Health Awareness month, and today I have a guest contributor that shares a few positive effects that meditation can have on your wellbeing. We all deal with mental health challenges at various points in our lives - we are only human.

Acknowledging that we constantly need to be attentive to our mental health is so important in creating healthy patterns that manage the stresses that we experience daily. We can’t simply wait until something happens, we must do our best to prevent ourselves from turning to unhealthy responses.

I hope this sheds some light on a topic that we need more conversations about. 

Everybody is looking for ways to improve their wellbeing and manage their mental health effectively. Making changes to your lifestyle like exercising more often and improving your diet can be a big help, but one thing that people find makes a big difference is meditation.

In the past, people associated meditation with religious practices and didn’t think it was really for them, but now, more people are starting to introduce meditation sessions to their daily routine because the results are so good.

You can download some great apps like Headspace that will teach you the basics of meditation and if you like, you can pay for different courses that are designed to help with things like stress, anxiety, and depression.

If you haven’t considered it before, these are just some of the ways that meditation can improve your wellbeing in a big way.

Activate Energy Healing

Energy healing is a big part of a lot of alternative medicines and some of the concepts involved can be a big help when you’re trying to improve your wellbeing. Meditation is a big part of that and a lot of people find that they go through a transformation when they start doing it regularly. It’s all about removing blockages in your mind and meditation is one of the best ways to do that. A lot of people that struggle with motivation and self esteem find that energy healing practices, and meditation in particular, can improve their life a lot.

Improve Sleep

Lack of sleep has a big impact on your wellbeing and unfortunately, a lot of us aren’t sleeping as well as we should be. When you’ve got a busy schedule and you’re stressed at work, it’s hard to switch off at night. Often, that’s because people are playing on their phones or worrying about what they have to do at work the next day. But if you meditate for ten minutes before you go to bed, you can learn to switch off and relax properly so you get a good night’s sleep every night.

Manage Pain

We all get aches and pains from time to time and if you’re constantly in pain, it can have a negative impact on your wellbeing. You can always use medication to manage pain but a lot of people don’t like the idea of being reliant on painkillers all of the time. But the good news is, you don’t need to. Meditation has been shown to help people manage their pain naturally without the need for medication.

Fight Depression

So many people struggle with depression and treating it can be very difficult. Medication and talking therapies are both effective ways of dealing with depression but prevention is always the best treatment. There are a lot of different lifestyle changes that you can make to help reduce feelings of depression, but meditation can be one of the best ways. Studies show that meditating regularly will reduce the symptoms of depression and make people less likely to develop depression in the future.

These are just some of the ways that meditation could improve your life and you only need to do it for ten minutes at the end of the day.