Honestly, I can see some benefits immediately! During my meditation, I’m able to let go of my stress and anxiety. By the time I am done, I feel much more relaxed and clear!
Best thing that can happen to anyone is if one stops waiting for returns in everything one does, and meditation can do that to you. To answer your question... let me tell you it can be 3 months or upto a year but what matters is taking a step towards. Scientists have concluded that meditation can help increase grey matter , improve focus and above all make yourself aware. The third is lost important to me.
After one month I started to feel more concentrated and relaxed. If you want to get to that stage you will have to do meditation every day. Good luck, you can do it.
I start to feel it shortly into the session most of the time, but sometimes it takes me a while to get into it. Average I’d say it takes me 5 minutes to get into it
I think you see the benefits immediately! In your decision to slow down and focus on the breath you have started to understand how the mind and body are connected.
You will probably get some benefit rate from the beginning wake maybe being able to focus tter and maybe sleeping better but over the long term you will get even greater benefits of being able to focus more and who knows you may be even the little bit nicer and more in the process of moving a regular basis
I already want to do meditation since around 3-4 years ago. But determined to di that since 6 months ago. And now I feel really really calm. My anxiety is decrease a lot.
Usually a few days. Better sleep, more control over emotions, able to handle adversity with a clear and level head.
At the very first time I meditated I was in a very stressful situation and felt much lighter, happy and calm for hours. Then I started meditating before difficult exams (e.g. driver license). I could even feel my heart rate slowing down really fast... and I passed! Then I started meditating in bed just before sleeping, a wind down meditation, and almost every time I did this I fell asleep whenever I wanted. No more flipping in bed for hours. Of course, these are immediate effects. I’ve meditated for ~140 hours using apps and I’m not sure if I’ve already started to see the proclaimed long term benefits. I feel happy by doing it, it brings me useful reflections, helps me coping with stress and anxiety during the sessions and the effect lasts for a while. This is enough for me to keep meditating. People around me started to say I’m a "zen" person more often, but I don’t see much difference. Maybe they say it because I became kind of a mindfulness evangelist. When you judge your progress you do it with a different mind than that from the beginning, so you can’t judge it objectively by yourself. This is helping me shift from a goal-oriented approach to a process-oriented approach in life, which is much less stressful and more fulfilling.
I’ve only just started, but I know a lot of people who swear by it. I will continue with this for sure!
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