“Meditating is for ‘om’ chanting, save the trees, cross-legged hippies only”

“Meditation has to be religious and spiritual/is against my spiritual beliefs”

“Who has time to meditate?”

These tend to be the most common generalisations that you hear when it comes to meditating. But the general approach to meditation cannot be further from these so-called truths. It doesn’t have to take more than a few minutes daily, you can afford that right? It’s a practice that doesn’t discriminate based on religion, age, gender or orientation and is as simple as observing your breathing.

So we decided to focus on meditating for our Wellbeing Program this month. We are wanting to explore the psychological, physiological and spiritual impacts frequent practice has on oneself.

We explored the scientific facts into meditation and have found that it is proven to:

• Overcome stress
• Boost creativity
• Cultivate healthy habits that leads to weight loss
• Improves digestion and lower blood pressure
• Decrease the risk of heart attacks
• Helps overcome anxiety, depression, anger and confusion
• Increases focus and attention
• Increase the size of the most important human organ, your brain!