Those who practice yoga
should gradually build up a meditation practice. The meditation should be done daily to gain
the overall fruits of the practice.
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
There are many physiological benefits like:
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- Prevents, slows down or controlls the 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- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain
electrical activity
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of
infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate
ovulation).
36- Builds self-confidence.
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood
and behavior.
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 maturitySpiritual
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
These are the main intentions to be kept in mind while conducting a Seva Yoga.