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Physiological benefits:
1 - It lowers oxygen consumption.
2 - It decreases respiratory rate.
3 - It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4 - Increases exercise tolerance.
5 - Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6 - Good for people with high blood pressure.
7 - Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8 - Decreases muscle tension
9 - Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10 - Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11 - Helps in post-operative healing.
12 - Enhances the immune system.
13 - Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14 - Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15 - Helps with weight loss
16 - Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17 - Higher skin resistance
18 - Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of
cardiovascular disease.
19 - Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20 - Decreases the aging process.
21 - Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22 - Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23 - Makes you sweat less
24 - Cure headaches & migraines
25 - Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26 - Reduced Need for Medical Care
27 - Less energy wasted
28 - More inclined to sports, activities
29 - Significant relief from asthma
30 - Improved performance in athletic events
31 - Normalizes to your ideal weight
32 - Harmonizes our endocrine system
33 - Relaxes our nervous system
34 - Produces lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35 - Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).
Psychological benefits:
36 - Builds self-confidence.
37 - Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
38 - Resolve phobias & fears
39 - Helps control own thoughts
40 - Helps with focus & concentration
41 - Increase creativity
42 - Increased brain wave coherence.
43 - Improved learning ability and memory.
44 - Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45 - Increased emotional stability.
46 - Improved relationships
47 - Mind ages at slower rate
48 - Easier to remove bad habits
49 - Develops intuition
50 - Increased Productivity
51 - Improved relations at home & at work
52 - Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53 - Helps ignore petty issues
54 - Increased ability to solve complex problems
55 - Purifies your character
56 - Develop will power
57 - Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58 - React more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59 - Increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
60 - Higher intelligence growth rate
61 - Increased job satisfaction
62 - Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63 - Decrease in potential mental illness
64 - Better, more sociable behaviour
65 - Less aggressiveness
66 - Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67 - Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68 - Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69 - Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70 - Increases sense of responsibility
71 - Reduces road rage
72 - Decrease in restless thinking
73 - Decreased tendency to worry
74 - Increases listening skills and empathy
75 - Helps make more accurate judgements
76 - Greater tolerance
77 - Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78 - Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79 - Develops emotional maturity
Spiritual benefits:
80 - Helps keep things in perspective
81 - Provides peace of mind, happiness
82 - Helps you discover your purpose
83 - Increased self-actualization.
84 - Increased compassion
85 - Growing wisdom
86 - Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87 - Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
88 - Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89 - Increased acceptance of oneself
90 - Helps learn forgiveness
91 - Changes attitude toward life
92 - Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93 - Attain enlightenment
94 - Greater inner-directedness
95 - Helps living in the present moment
96 - Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97 - Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98 - Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
99 - Experience a sense of “Oneness”
100 - Increases the synchronicity in your life
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