It’s true! There are many ways that meditation has direct and indirect influences on your love life.
Overcoming Loneliness
Recent studies conducted at major universities have found that meditation and mindfulness techniques, when practiced daily, can reduce feelings of loneliness and depression. When you no longer feel lonely and depressed, you’re less likely to get tangled up with the wrong person.
People afraid of being alone are the ones more likely to get involved with the wrong person. Meditation that alleviates loneliness can strengthen your resolve to wait peacefully for Mr. or Miss Right to show up.
This can also help couples in long distance relationships stay together and remain focused on the relationship.
Reduce Stress
All couples will inevitably face stressful times together, and what doesn’t make you stronger can tear you apart.
When you meditate, it reduces stress and tension. People who meditate more frequently report that they are happier people in comparison to those who don’t meditate at all. This can really make a huge difference in your attitude and the way you deal with each other. It can eliminate a lot of needless bickering.
Eases Pain
When one person in a relationship lives with chronic pain, it can create a whole new set of challenges for a couple. The person in pain can get depressed and bogged down by negative feelings, while the partner can feel helpless and frustrated. An accident or illness that leaves one partner in pain can really reduce a couple’s leisure activities and change the way they live.
Meditation has been proven to help alleviate chronic pain. If practiced regularly, people suffering from pain due to various conditions or illnesses are able to put their pain into better perspective, and thus the effects of pain are lessened. When chronic pain is eased, life can begin to turn back to normal and hope is restored.
Greater Presence
Becoming skilled at meditation and mindfulness techniques teaches you to live in the moment and be aware of the present. This presence can really help a couple not just co-exist, but be together fully— mind, body and spirit.
When you have a greater presence in the moment with your partner, your time together can vastly improve in quality. You find yourself connecting more deeply on an emotional and spiritual level. This increases feelings of intimacy and brings couples closer together as they put their total attention on each other.
This state of presence is great for a leisurely stroll through the park together, a romantic dinner, a night out— or a night in!
Better Sex
Yes, it’s true. Sex is better for meditators. Stressors set off survival responses in the body that releases hormones like epinephrine and norepinephrine. These hormones keep us in a state of distress, and decrease the sex drive.
It doesn’t even take a life-threatening experience for the body to go into survival mode; the body responds to trauma the same way it reacts to everyday problems, like family arguments, noisy kids, flat tires and cranky customers.
Meditation helps you keep a more even keel so things don’t easily provoke that survival response, keeping your sex drive flowing even through the tough times.
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