Name: 5 SHOCKING Benefits Of Meditation (Animated)
Uploaded: 2019-01-05T05:52:23.000Z
Duration: 6 min 14 s
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- [Narrator] Studies have shown that meditating activates

the same parts of your brain as taking psilocybin mushrooms.

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On top of this, meditating has been shown

and it increases confidence, your immune system,

and it also raises your levels of empathy.

Instead of me just telling you about successful people

who meditate, I'm going to just show you four clips

of four incredibly successful people in their chosen fields

who practice something called transcendental meditation,

I feel like I'm constantly chasing the day.

- I've been a TMer for about five years now

and for radio, I feel it added tremendous creativity

In fact, to this day, after I do the radio show,

my head is pounding so bad from the headphones

and the loud noise and five hours of headphones and talking.

- And you gave a great definition of what meditation was.

- Yeah, I said that it's like you have a cell phone

I can get this thing up to a hundred any time I want.

that meditating is at least a little bit helpful.

Because there are so many benefits to meditation,

I don't have time to go through all of them,

The first main point is that meditation improves

Long term practice of meditation increases

grey matter density in the areas of the brain

Grey matter is made up of the cell bodies

So basically, the more grey matter you have

the smarter you'll become in that certain area.

when it comes to being successful in business,

relationships, school, or really anything at all in life.

The second reason is that mindfulness meditation

A study from the Carnegie Mellon University

indicates that mindfulness meditation training

is useful in decreasing feelings of loneliness

As I've said in the past, I believe a big reason

why people don't get into the right relationships

is because they're often looking for another person

But when you practice meditating and you decrease

that feeling of loneliness and you decrease

you're much more likely to find the right person

The third benefit of meditation is that it lengthens

To put it simply, if you do something called

you're basically training your attention span,

similar to how you would train your biceps in the gym.

you will be able to focus on a certain task

for much longer without getting distracted.

It does not have to be a lot of meditating.

In fact, a study has shown that if you practice

The fourth reason is that meditation helps fight addictions.

but I'm also talking about small addictions

constantly checking your Facebook messages

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5 SHOCKING Benefits Of Meditation (Animated)

anxiety

constantly

discipline

meditation