Science-backed benefits of meditation are varied and numerous. The consistent practice of meditation has a positive impact on the physical, mental and emotional health.
Dr Denninger, director of research at the Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital share that meditation helps protect the hippocampus, a brain area involved in memory.
Consistent meditation help create distance from negative thoughts and emotions and this distance help you notice these without acting on them. By helping you control how you react to stress and changing your response, it reduces its effects on you.
Studies discovered that people who meditated for 30 minutes a day for just 8 weeks increased the volume of gray matter in their hippocampus and people who suffer from recurrent depression tend to have a smaller hippocampus.
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