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How Can the Lesser-known Benefits of Meditation Help You?

Derek Strike
5 min readJan 7, 2025

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What if meditation could do more than calm your mind — what if it could make you more attuned to your body, improve your creativity, and even strengthen your immune system?

Most people associate meditation with stress relief. However, it offers deep and overlooked advantages that will significantly impact your life.

We’re going to take an in-depth look into the lesser-known benefits of meditation and discover how it impacts creativity, decision-making, emotional resilience, and even your sense of purpose.

Enhancing Creativity and Problem-Solving

Meditation can be a game-changer for creativity, acting as a reset button for your mind and quieting the mental noise that often clouds your thoughts.

Focusing on the present moment, meditation opens pathways in the brain associated with ‘multi-tasking’ thinking, the process of generating multiple ideas and solutions. By creating a space of concentrated awareness, meditation helps unlock new ideas and viewpoints.

Research shows that open-monitoring meditation, which involves observing thoughts without judgment, enhances creativity by activating the default mode network (DMN), the brain’s “creative engine.”

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Derek Strike
Derek Strike

Written by Derek Strike

Writing is about becoming conscious. Nothing in life is of any value unless it is shared with others. Love to learn and be challenged.

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