Most people recognize that meditation can make you calmer and better able to handle stress. But did you know that meditation can also make you smarter?
Meditation increases your intelligence in a variety of ways: From enhancing emotional intelligence by giving you the skills needed to handle stressful situations, to developing inner intelligence through listening to your inner voice, to synchronizing the two hemispheres of your brain to allow them to work better together, meditation creates the perfect environment for intellectual growth and learning.
When the mind is overwhelmed with stress, it is difficult to concentrate, focus or learn new tasks. It can also be difficult to memorize new facts when your mind is burdened with stress, anxiety or fear. Students who meditate before taking tests or studying can use simple techniques to clear their minds and focus better, enhancing the learning process and test scores!
Likewise, meditation syncs the right and left brain hemispheres, allowing the entire brain to communicate and work better. Meditation also spurs creativity by guiding your brainwaves to the most beneficial frequencies - alpha theta, and delta, which allow for everything from idea formation to relaxation to growth.
Inner intelligence, on the other hand, is derived from listening to your inner voice and developing your insight and intuition. Meditation can help you develop your intuition and subsequently increase that internal intelligence. While this type of intelligence can’t be gauged with quizzes or tests, it is valuable on all levels, stimulating insight, creativity, understanding and helping you to see beyond the obvious.
Meditation also advances emotional intelligence. Many people never learn to think through emotions and address them in a reasonable manner, but instead are held prisoner by their emotions and their reactions to outside stimuli. Though you can’t control outside forces and circumstances, you can control how you respond to them. Regular meditation will give you the skills to listen to your feelings, then work through them in a calm, thoughtful manner. Many who have lived their lives ruled by anger learn through meditation how to put anger aside and handle situations rationally.
In truth, meditation can make you more intelligent from the inside out.
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