Medication vs. Meditation: The Best Solution for Stress and Mental Health and HSPs?

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Is medication the best solution for stress and mental health, or does meditation offer more benefits? We dive into the world of stress relief, focusing on meditation benefits, and compare them to medication's effects on mental health. Discover why Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) might need meditation more than others, and how it can be a powerful tool for managing stress. Learn about the positive impact of meditation on your body, mind, and spirit, and why it might be the key to reducing stress without relying on medication. If you're exploring meditation vs. medication for stress and mental health, this episode is for you .If you are interested in supporting us even more than a 5-star review, you can find Emotional Badass on Patreon where you will get bonus content and different opportunities to work with Nikki in group format https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass Resources: Download the free Morning Routine PDF to learn our techniques to help conquer your day! https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning-routine Community & Exclusive Bonus Episodes & Video: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Brain.FM: CODE: Emotionalbadass for 20% off and a free month Join our newsletter for weekly wellness emails where we share mental health tips, announcements, discount codes, and highlight past episodes: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter Check out our Guided Meditations narrated by Nikki available for sale: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations Follow us on Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emotionalbadass Thank you for supporting this show by supporting our sponsors: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/sponsors Advertising: Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Emotional Bad-ass. I am your host Nicky Eisenhower, Life Coach and Psychotherapist, and today I want to talk to you about meditation.itation. If there's one thing that I could get everyone in the world to do to make their lives better, their inner world better, their physical anxiety released and relieved, it'd be five minutes of meditation a day.
0:45.0	But there's something about humans resisting meditation.
0:49.0	No matter how smart you are, no matter how driven to wellness, there is something that we resist.
0:57.3	I find with all my clients especially sensitive.
1:00.4	We know the benefits.
1:02.0	It lowers our blood pressure, it calms us down, it helps with focus,
1:06.0	it helps us with reactivity, it helps us find better solutions, it just feels good, it makes us sleep better, better everything it'll even help your body
1:15.0	being more of a restful mode to be able to lose weight and keep weight off
1:19.9	so there's no downside to meditating, none.
1:23.2	People say it takes time.
1:24.8	But when they study it, it's just five minutes a day
1:27.8	makes a significant difference.
1:29.5	So imagine if we did five minutes a day, really did it. Imagine if we did ten. So if there's one thing I could get you to do, it would be to meditate. So let's try a little something. Because unless you have a daily meditation practice,
1:43.2	sit with yourself and ask,
1:45.2	why am I not meditating each day?
1:48.0	I've got a theory that when we need help the most
1:52.2	is when we ask for help the least.
1:55.0	There's something about congruence, you know, and if I feel awful, if I'm anxious, if I'm stressed
2:01.4	out, it's incongruent for me to do something peaceful. anxious if I'm stressed out.
2:02.6	It's incongruent for me to do something peaceful and calm.
2:06.0	So instead of doing something peaceful and calm, most of us overthink and
2:09.4	overthink and rehash and rehash or we let OCD symptoms kind of take over or we clean and we clean and we
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