5 More Reasons That You Should Meditate!

Meditation

Hi all,
Good day to you.
Today we shall look at more benefits of Meditation.

5 Benefits Of Meditation

For many of the same reasons that meditation helps to facilitate healing, it also enhances performance. It relaxes your body and reduces stress and anxiety, which allows you to function more effectively. It promotes positive mind-states, such as love, joy, and well-being, and encourages the flow of life-energy through the body, which in turn promotes self-confidence and a sense of power and effectiveness.

Below are 5 additional benefits that meditation can bring to your life:

1. Increased focus and concentration.
As you become adept at staying on task as you follow your breaths or recite your mantra, you can easily transfer this skill to working at your computer or playing ball with friends.

2. Minimal distractions.
The more regularly you meditate, the more quickly distractions fade into the background as your mind settles down and becomes one-pointed. Needless to say, you work or play more effectively without a million irrelevant thoughts chattering away inside your head.

3. Being in the moment, free from expectations.
Even though you may have a particular goal in mind - for example, winning the race, completing the project, landing the ball in a tiny cup 300 yards away, etc, - the paradox is that you're more likely to succeed if you set aside your expectations and keep your attention focused on the precise movements or tasks you need to execute right now.

4. Enhanced mental and perceptual clarity.
One of the fortuitous side effects of keeping your mind on the moment is that your senses become sharper and your mind quicker and more attuned to subtle details which comes in quite handy when you're trying to do something well.

5. Greater endurance and longer attention span.
As you gradually increase the length of your meditations from 10 to 15 to 20 minutes or more, you gradually build your power to pay attention longer. As a result, you may find that you don't get so easily burned out or discouraged when you turn your attention to an extended work project or other demanding activity.

So......... what are waiting? Go try it out if you have not done so.

Till we 'meditate' again, have a wonderful weekend.

Cheers.

Meditation

What Can Meditation Do For You?

Meditation

Hi all,
Good day to you.
Sorry, I did not post any writing yesterday as I was having problem logging into the Net.

Well, without further delay, I shall continue my sharing on Meditation today.

What Can Meditation Do For You?

You do not have to be an expert or skilled in meditation to enjoy its benefits. You simply need to practice regularly without trying to get anywhere or achieve anything. And like interest in a bank account, the benefits just accrue by themselves.

The following are some wonderful rewards one can acquire through meditation:

Being awake at the present moment:
When you rush breathlessly from one moment to the next while anticipating another problem or yearning for another pleasure, you miss the beauty and closeness of the present, which is constantly unfolding before your eyes.

Meditation teaches you to slow down and take each moment as it comes; the sounds of traffic, the smell of roses, the laughter of children, the beauty of the ocean, the coming and going of your breath. In fact, as the meditative traditions remind us, only the present moment exists anyway. The past is just a memory and the future a fantasy, projected on the movie screen of the mind right now.

Being friends with yourself:
When you are constantly struggling to live up to expectations, whether your own or someone else's, or racing to reinvent yourself to survive in a competitive environment, you rarely have the opportunity or the motivation to get to know yourself just the way you are. Self-doubt and self-hatred may appear to fuel the fires of self-improvement, but they are painful and they contribute to other negative mind-states like fear, anger, depression, and alienation. They also prevent you from living up to your full potential.

When you meditate, you learn to welcome every experience and aspect of your being without any judgment or denial. In the process, you begin to treat yourself as you would a close friend, accepting and loving the whole package, the apparent weaknesses and shortcomings as well as the positive qualities and strengths.

Creating a deep connection with others:
As you wake up to the present moment and open your heart and mind to your own experience, you naturally extend this quality of awareness and presence to your relationships with family and friends. If you are like most people, you tend to project your own desires and expectations to those who are close to you, which act as a barrier to real communication. But when you start to accept others the way they are, a skill you can develop through the practice of meditation, you open up the channels for a deeper love and intimacy to flow.

Relaxing the body and calming the mind:
Mind and body are inseparable, and an agitated mind inevitably produces a stressed out body. As the mind settles, relaxes, and opens during meditation, so does the body, and the longer you meditate, the more this peace and relaxation ripples out to every area of your life, including your health.

Ok, give it a try and you will love it.

Till we 'meet' again, have fun.

Cheers.

Meditation

The Rise of Meditation!

Meditation

Hi all,
Good day to you.
Following yesterday sharing on Holistic Healing, I would like to start a new series on Meditation.

Lets begin...........

The Rise Of Meditation

Over the past twenty years or so, meditation has gained an increasing acceptance and practice in the West. While still far from being an important part of Western society, the practice of meditation has made significant inroads in the therapeutic and medical community and is winning increasingly broad support in business, educational, and political arenas.

We can say that in United States, meditation has survived its infancy and is well on its way through childhood. The reason for this increasing acceptance is that meditation has proven to be both a practical and effective tool for increasing health as well as happiness. The past twenty years have provided consistent clinical and scientific experience that allows us to draw some strong conclusions about the practice of meditation. In general, we can state with great confidence, based on evidence that the consistent practice of meditation leads to a healthier and more effective human being.

More specifically, those who practice some form of meditation have one or more of the following characteristics: they have lower triglyceride levels; achieve a lower, more stable heart rate; they have lower blood pressure; they have a slower and more stable respiratory rate; they have a more stable galvanic skin response; report fewer psychosomatic symptoms such as headaches, colds, gastric disturbances; take fewer prescription and nonprescription drugs; report lower levels of anxiety and fear; score higher on self-actualization inventories; and have increased capacity for loving relationships.

The preceding describes only a few of the many benefits of meditation. In short, when compared to others who do not practice meditation, or to their state before they began to meditate, those who consistently practice meditation are healthier, happier, and more effective human beings. Clinical experience, scientific research, and the experience of an average person all point to one and the same conclusion: the consistent practice of meditation is probably the most important and effective self-help tool available today for personal health and effectiveness. It is also clear that under the guidance of a competent instructor, meditation can be safely and successfully practiced by almost anyone without any fear of harmful side-effects.

The real question is not whether meditation is helpful, but rather how and why it works. What is it that happens during and as a result of meditation that produces such specific physical and mental benefits and leads to improvement in many aspects of one's life? The key to answering these questions lies in understanding the relationship between meditation and the emotions. The physiological, psychological, and behavioral changes listed above all reflect a more balanced and harmonious emotional state.

Ok, that's all for today, and I shall dig into this topic deeper in the next few weeks.

Till we 'meditate" again, take care.

Cheers.

Meditation

What Is Holistic Healing?

Holistic Healing

Hi all,
Good day to you.
I am back.
How have you been doing over the weekend?
I believe everything is fine over your end, but did you watch you diet? :o)

Ok, today, I am not going to talk about weight management, just to break the flow..... my topic today is ...............

Holistic Healing: Necessary For Good Health & Happiness

Creative visualization is one of the most important tools we have for creating and maintaining good health, happiness, and success.

One of the basic principles of holistic health is that we cannot separate our physical health from our emotional, mental, and spiritual states of being. All levels are interconnected and a state of "disease" in the body is always a reflection of conflict, tension, anxiety, or disharmony on other levels of being as well. So when we have a physical disorder, it is inevitably a message for us to look deeply into our emotional and intuitive feelings, our thoughts and attitudes, to see what we can do to restore natural harmony and balance to our beings. We must tune in and "listen" to the inner process.

There is constant communication between mind and body. The body perceives the physical universe, and sends messages to the mind about it; the mind interprets the perceptions according to its own individual past experience and its belief system, and signals the body to react in a way which it feels is appropriate. If the mind's belief system (on a conscious or unconscious level) says that it is appropriate or inevitable to get sick in a certain situation, it will signal the body accordingly, and the body will obligingly manifest symptoms of illness; it will in fact become ill. So the whole process is closely tied in with our deepest concepts and ideas about ourselves, life, and the nature of disease and health.

Creative visualization refers to the way in which we communicate from our minds to our bodies. It is the process of forming images and thoughts in our minds, consciously or unconsciously, and then transmitting them to our bodies as signals or commands. Conscious creative visualization is the process of creating positive thoughts and images to communicate with our bodies, in place of negative, constrictive, literally "sickening" ones.

People get sick because they believe on an inner level that illness is an appropriate or inevitable response to some situation or circumstance, because it in some way seems to solve a problem for them, or gets them something that they need, or because it is a desperate solution to some unresolved and unbearable inner conflict.

Some examples of this are: the person who becomes ill because he has been "exposed" to a communicable disease (and thus believes it is inevitable or highly likely); the person who dies of the same disease a parent or other member of her family had (because she has unconsciously programmed herself to follow the same pattern); the person who gets sick or has an accident in order to get out of work (either there's something he can't confront at work, or he won't allow himself the necessary relaxation and quiet time unless he is sick); the person who gets sick in order to get love and attention (this was how she was able to get her parents' love as a child); the person who represses his feelings all his life and eventually dies of cancer (he cannot resolve the conflict between the pressure of his stored-up emotions and the belief that it's not okay for him to express those emotions... so he eventually kills `himself as a solution).

Hm...... don't you find today sharing interesting?
Hope you enjoy reading it.
Ok, till we 'meet' again, take good care of your body as well as your MIND.

Cheers.

Holistic Healing