Meditation is simply the practice of focusing your attention on the particular object- generally something simple like a word or a phrase, a candle flames or geometrical figure or the coming and going of your breath. In everyday life your mind is constantly processing a barrage of sensations, visual impressions, emotions and thoughts. When you meditate, you narrow your focus, limit the stimuli bombarding your nervous system and calm your mind in the process.
Meditation refers to a family of self-regulation practices that focus on training attention and awareness in order to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control and thereby foster general mental well-being and development and/or specific capacities such as calm, clarity, and concentration.
Meditation is used to describe practices that self-regulate the body and mind, thereby affecting mental events by engaging a specific attention set.... regulation of attention is the central commonality across the many divergent methods.
Meditation may involve generating an emotional state for the purpose of analyzing that state—such as anger, hatred, etc.—or cultivating a particular mental response to various phenomena, such as compassion.The term "meditation" can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state. Meditation may also involve repeating a mantra and closing the eyes. The mantra is chosen based on its suitability to the individual meditator. Meditation has a calming effect and directs awareness inward until pure awareness is achieved.
The Mind Body benefits of Meditation
- More happiness and peace of mind.
- Less emotional reactivity; fewer intense negative emotions and dramatic mood swings.
- Increased empathy.
- Enhance creativity and Self actualization.
- Heightened perceptual clarity and sensitivity.
- Decrease heart rate during meditation.
- Lower blood pressure and reduction in cholesterol level.
- Increase in alpha frequency needed for relaxations and peace of mind.
- Enhance synchronization of the left and right hemisphere of brain.
- Reduction in Intensity of pain.
Great Reasons to Meditate
- To awaken to the present moment.
- To connect more deeply with others.
- To make friends with yourself.
- To relax the body and calm the mind.
- To lighten up.
- To enjoy more happiness.
- To experience focus and flow.
- To feel more centered, grounded and balance.
- To enhance your performance at work and play.
- To increase appreciation, gratitude and love.
- To awaken your higher self.
Ten quick steps to prepare your body for meditation
- Arrange your legs.
- Lengthen your spine
- Rock your body from side by side like pendulum.
- Rock your body from front to back.
- Tilt your pelvis slightly forward and soften your belly.
- Tuck your chin gently.
- Rest your tongue on the roof of the mouth and breathe through your nose.
- Rest your hands on your thighs or your lap.
- relax your body from head to toe, letting go as muscles as possible of any tension or discomfort.
- Begin to meditate.
To get the quick taste of meditation please follow the following instruction:
- Find a quite place and sit comfortably with your back relatively straight.
- Take a few deep breadths, close your eyes, and relax your body as much as you can.
- Choose a word or phrase that has special personal or spiritual meaning for you.
- Begin too breadth through your nose and as you breathe, repeat the word or phrase quietly to yourself.
- As an alternative, you can follow your breath as it comes and goes through your nostrils, returning to your breathing when you get distracted.
- Keep the meditation going for as much as you can and slowly get up and go around your day.
Meditation plays the powerful role in helping people bridge the chasm between life and death. In fact in some tradition meditation prepares you for the ultimate transition. Always remember meditation that meditation is the tools that every conscious human being can use for opening your doors for spiritual awakening.
