Dealing with urinary incontinence on a daily basis is never easy. To avoid the stress of bladder weakness and to relax, meditation is the best way. How can meditation help improve your quality of life when you have incontinence? Uriclip tells you all about it!

Incontinence affects some 25 million people in the US alone. In France, more than 3 million of people are affected. Urinary incontinence is a major public health issue. Most people develop this problem late in life. However, urinary incontinence can happen to anyone, at any age. It is a fairly common condition and nothing to be ashamed of. You should even dare to lifting taboos on this pathology.

Urinary incontinence can, in some cases, interfere with daily activities that one used to do before suffering from it. It is therefore important to consult a doctor or urologist as soon as you realise that you are experiencing involuntary urination on a recurrent basis.

Fortunately, there are many ways to treat and even prevent incontinence. Natural remedies, exercises (yoga, swimming, pilates...), disposable or penis clamp... There are a number of approaches that can be used to minimise the impact of an overactive bladder on one's lifestyle. Meditation is one of the ways to live better with bladder weakness.

People withurinary incontinence know that stress can aggravate the problem of urine leakage. This is because stress triggers a fight or flight response. To stay calm, and thus avoid involuntary urinationThere is nothing like meditation!

The meditation Meditation is a way to train your awareness and gain a healthy sense of perspective. When you meditate, you focus your attention and try to clear your mind of all the confusing thoughts that can be a source of stress. Meditation is one of the approaches that can help to manage urinary health and control incontinence.

To meditate well, simply focus on your breathIt may seem difficult at first, but there are many applications that can help you to do guided meditation, such as counting your breaths through visualization exercises or focusing on your heartbeat. While this may seem difficult at first, there are many applications that can accompany you in a guided meditation.

Practising meditation can help manage urinary incontinence and return to a life without constant interruption. Uriclip gives you some tips on how to get started.

Meditation is relaxation. There is no need to strike poses or perform specific gestures. Nor is it necessary to memorise ancient chants in foreign languages. It is possible to practice meditation from the couch, at the desk, in the car, or even while waiting in line at the supermarket checkout. The key is to learn to control your breathing, calm your mind and relax your muscles. These three skills help to control the body and reduce stress. Both are very important in managing urinary incontinence.

Tips for learning to meditate :

1. Move to a quiet place and sit or lie down.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Deliberately focus on your breathing.
4. Breathe in slowly on the count of 3.
5. Then hold your breath for a second.
6. Exhale slowly to the count of 3.
7. Repeat the operation several times.

Once this technique is acquired, the process is repeated, prolonging each breath to 4 counts, then 5, then 6 and more. The more you practice meditation, the better you manage it.

Mindfulness meditationMindfulness Meditation, also known as Mindfulness-Based Self-Reliance or MBSR, is a derivative of the Buddhist meditative practice. This mindfulness meditation is said to be a practice that significantly improves the control of stress and uncontrolled urination episodes. According to a 2012 pilot study by Baker, Costa and NygaardMindfulness could improve the quality of life of patients with urge incontinence.

Here is a short tutorial to try out this meditation technique which can be very helpful when suffering from urinary incontinence.

1. Make yourself comfortable. The body should not be under any strain.
2. Set a timer for 5 minutes.
3. During this time, you close your eyes and keep your attention on your breathing.

Thoughts will rush in and perhaps disturb you. The only objective is to listen to none of these thoughts and to concentrate only on your breathing. Nothing else!

In addition to meditation and to avoid leakage in the middle of the day, consider Uriclip®! This medical device is specially designed to compensate for a failing sphincter. Its design allows it to act as an External Urethral Artificial Sphincter. It obstructs the urethra until the wearer feels the need to urinate. The Uriclip® is the solution to keep control!