{"id":269714,"date":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269714\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","slug":"your-stress-hormones-actually-drop-5-surprising-good-side-effects-of-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269714\/","title":{"rendered":"Your stress hormones actually drop &#8211; 5 surprising \u201dgood side effects\u201d of meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens: Meditation strengthens brain regions involved in emotional regulation (like the anterior cingulate cortex and insula) and reduces the intensity of fear and stress responses from the amygdala.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Why it matters: You don&#8217;t stop feeling emotions, but you respond to them more calmly. Anxiety, anger, and sadness feel less overwhelming. Research shows meditators have fewer symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression.\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">Simple takeaway: Meditation doesn&#8217;t erase difficult feelings\u2014it gives you more space to choose how you respond to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">(Disclaimer: This story is not for professional medical advice and does not substitute medical advice.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happens: Meditation strengthens brain regions involved in emotional regulation (like the anterior cingulate cortex and insula) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,156953,156956,156955,137,156954,156950,156951,514,515,156957,156952],"class_list":["post-269714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-better-sleep-meditation","tag-emotional-health-meditation","tag-focus-and-attention-meditation","tag-health","tag-immune-system-boost","tag-meditation-benefits","tag-meditation-side-effects","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-science-backed-meditation","tag-stress-reduction-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}