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  Bedtime Meditation: Why It Works & How to Do It A regular bedtime meditation practice can be an enjoyable way to end the day and a powerful tool for improving the quality of your sleep, reducing stress, calming anxiety, and letting go of negative thoughts. But it’s not always easy to get into that meditative state when you are tired or stressed out from a long, busy day of work. Thankfully, there are many great tips and simple techniques to help make meditation before bed an easy and joyful part of your evening ritual. Why you should practice meditation before bed An evening meditation practice is a great way to improve your health, wind down from your day, let go of the worries and stresses of work and rejuvenate your body and mind. Practicing meditation in the evening is best for people who can’t fit practice in during the morning or afternoon hours because they have too much going on at home or at their jobs. It’s also ideal if you’re trying to fall asleep quickly aft...

                   Meditation is an ancient practice believed to have originated in India several thousand years ago. Throughout early history, the practice was adopted by neighboring countries quickly and formed a part of many religions worldwide. The terminology used today to “meditate” was not introduced until the 12th century AD, coming from the Latin word  meditatum. Ancient history The earliest documented records that mentioned meditation involved Vedantism, which is a Hindu tradition in India, around 1500 BCE. However, historians believe that meditation was practiced before this time, as early as 3000 BCE. Between 600-500 BCE, the development of other meditation forms was recorded in Taoist China and Buddhist India, although the exact origins of these practices, particularly Buddhist meditation, continue to be debated among historians. The formula for the salvation of morality, contemplative concentration, knowledge, and lib...

  How Meditation Affects Your Brain and Boosts Well-Being Mindfulness meditation is the practice of nonjudgmental, intentional awareness of the present. It can strengthen areas of your brain responsible for memory, learning, attention, and self-awareness. The practice can also help calm down your sympathetic nervous system. Over time, mindfulness meditation can increase cognition, memory, and attention. It can also decrease emotional reactivity, stress, anxiety, and depression. Nowadays, it feels like people praise meditation as a cure for anything that ails you. Pain? Stress? Distraction? There’s a meditation for that.  But what is actually happening in your brain when you meditate? Kristoffer Rhoads , a psychologist at Harborview Medical Center, notes that mindfulness meditation has been studied the most while there are various kinds of meditation.  “Mindfulness meditation is the very intentional awareness of the present moment in a nonjudgmental fashion,” he says. “It’...