Upcoming Events:

March 23, 2019:  Tarot Card Lunch Club  $30   11:30am – 2pm.

Lunch provided.

March 14 & 28th:  Intuition Development Circle  $20 per meeting

7pm- 9pm

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5 Benefits of Meditation

Once relegated to the fringes of mainstream medicine, meditation is now accepted as a valuable health care tool. When practiced properly, it can calm both the mind and body and is especially advantageous for confronting a variety of mental and physical health issues. Find out how this means of spiritual counseling can help you thrive in every aspect of life. 

5 Ways Meditation Improves Your Health

1. Reduce Stress 

When you're stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol. This results in a physiological effect that prepares your body to react with a “fight or flight” response. Meditation is largely about mindfulness, encouraging you to live in the moment. It accomplishes this with mantras and breathing exercises, forcing you to slow down mentally and physically and focus on the here and now. Studies have shown that practicing meditation can reduce stress by countering the production of cortisol.

2. Improve Sleep

Meditation can be used to improve rest. Sometimes the inability to fall asleep can be traced back to residual feelings of anxiety and stress felt throughout the day. Though you may physically feel tired when laying down, you might still notice your heart racing as you encounter difficulty drifting off. This is because, despite being tired, your anxiety has likely triggered a stress-induced “fight or flight” response, as your body releases cortisol. Using a combination of coping skills learned in spiritual counseling, you can manage how your body processes stress by refocusing your thoughts and tapping into a meditative state to fall asleep with ease.

3. Manage Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is linked to a variety of health concerns, from heart attack to stroke, and stress is often the catalyst to elevated blood pressure. Meditation has been linked to improved blood pressure, because of how it aids in relaxing the nerve signals that control heart function.

4. Enhance Focus

If you’re overwhelmed and can’t seem to focus on the task at hand, spiritual counseling can help you condition your mind in a way that effectively increases your attention span. By focusing your breathing and forcing you to anchor your attention to one simple thought, meditation can decrease your mind’s propensity to wander. 

5. Strengthen Your Memory

As your brain ages, you may have a harder time remembering simple tasks or past memories, and retaining short- or long-term thoughts seems more challenging. The repetitive mantras and physical movements sometimes used during meditation can help to strengthen your cognitive abilities as you age, because of how it encourages a heightened sense of awareness and alertness.

Discover the benefits of meditation for yourself by joining an upcoming intuition development circle at Kimberly's Intuitive Spiritual Sessions. Located in Springdale, OH, Kimberly serves the greater Cincinnati area, offering spiritual counseling designed to help attendees develop their intuition and discover a sense of inner calm. To learn more about her spiritual counseling services, call (513) 285-8810 or visit her website—and don’t forget to register for her upcoming events, including the Intuition Development Circle.

Kimberly’s new book ‘Hearing God’s Voice in the Noise’  Now available at Amazon.com and other booksellers.