The Health Benefits of Meditation

Beth Ruhmann, a certified therapeutic recreation specialist with Baptist Health South Florida, talks about the health benefits of meditation.

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[Benefits of Meditation]
Beth Ruhmann:
There are lots of health benefits that we're seeing from meditation. The first ones are usually the physical symptoms that we have when we're under stress. Our blood pressures go down, our heart rates go down.
Beth Ruhmann:
Probably, what's more important are the psychological things that we tend to feel when we're under lots of stress, so when we get anxious, we get nervous, meditation can help those actually reduce and almost get rid of them so that we're not so worried about all the things that we're concerned about.

[Beth discussing mediation classes to a group of people]
Beth Ruhmann:
Even if you do one minute of breath work, if you do four deep breaths, all of the sudden you feel very relaxed, and so anyone can do that anywhere. You can do that sitting in your car, if you're caught in traffic on 995, even if the kids are running around and it's very noisy, and all of the sudden, you just take a couple of deep breaths, you start to feel very relaxed.
Beth Ruhmann:
And that's probably one of the best methods that I've got for helping people get rid of the stress, but we also have classes as part of our community health program that we teach meditation. And there are lots of forms. We don't have to sit cross legged, we don't have to do what sometimes people think is a very odd or a very unusual way. Meditation is just getting quiet. Even prayer is meditation and it's a very easy thing for us to do.
Beth Ruhmann:
I think we've got so many avenues that we can learn how to do meditation and it doesn't hurt. There's no side effects from meditation. There's no negative side effects. It's just an easy thing for almost everyone to do. So, I just encourage everyone to try it.

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