Meditation is the perfect

                   antidote to modern stress ....

    It's a reset button

                                     for your mind and body

Life these days can be extremely fast paced, and time goes by so quickly that many of us don't really take time out to experience our lives. We become over stimulated, over scheduled, and over committed.  Not surprisingly, taking a break from this stimulation can actually improve your health.   I call it taking time out for time in.

 

If you are looking for peace of mind, greater intuition, relaxation, stress reduction, and a deeper connection with yourself, others, and the universe, then perhaps it is time start a daily practice of meditation. 

Meditation enables you take some time to turn your attention inward and connect with your spirit — where energy, creativity and inner awareness are truly your natural state of being.

  

Meditation is a practice that brings about balance physically, emotionally, and mentally.

 

Meditation aids in lowering heart rate and blood pressure, and the practice has also been used to help people quit smoking, conquer drug and alcohol addictions, reduce blood pressure and reduce symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome and menopause.

  

Today, people are also using meditation to treat anxiety, stress, and depression.

Some other psychological benefits can be a calmer manner, a clearer mind, better decision making, and being in the present moment, rather than agonizing over the past or worrying about the future. 

Meditation also helps you to clarify your true intentions and desires, increase you intuition, and develop a peaceful mind.

Those who meditate report higher levels of self-esteem, and are less dependent on what others think or say about them to feel their value as a human being. Rarely is there a reason not to meditate. 

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There are both psychological and physiological benefits of meditation.  Here are just a few:

  • Increased energy and vitality
  • Clearer connection with your higher self and source
  • Reduced anxiety and expanded capacity for happiness
  • Reduced stress and fatigue
  • Enrichment of all aspects of your life – body, mind, and spirit
  • Activation of the expansive qualities of the heart, mind,and spirit
  • Easy access to the power of attention and intention to realize your deepest desires
  • Increased occurrence of synchronicities
  • Improved concentration and focus
  • Improved eating and sleeping habits
  • Normalized blood pressure and cholesterol and better overall health
  • Improved mental clarity
  • Improved performance, efficiency, and productivity
  • Increased job satisfaction
  • Decreased need for addictive substances
  • Increased self-awareness and self-confidence
  • Increased fluid intelligence (IQ)
  • Increased intuition

Physiologically, one of the biggest benefits from meditation is lowered blood pressure, lowered cholesterol and the general calming of the nervous system. Also, because the mind and body are intimately connected, when the mind settles down, so does the body. This allows for the release of stress-induced physical symptoms.

Physical impurities in cells have their equivalents in the mind: fear, anger, greed, compulsivity, doubt, and other negative emotions. Operating at the quantum level, they can be as damaging to us as any chemical toxin. The mind body connection turns negative attitudes into chemical toxins, the so-called "stress hormones" that have been linked to many different diseases.

Ayurveda, an ancient approach to health, also known as the science of life and longevity, lumps all negative tendencies together as "mental ama," which needs to be purified from the mind. But how? It is not possible to purify the mind by thinking about it. An angry mind cannot conquer its own anger; fear cannot quench fear. Instead, a technique is required that goes beyond the domain where fear, anger, and all other forms of mental ama hold sway. This technique is meditation. If properly taught and used, meditation allows a person to become unstuck from the ama in his thoughts and emotions.

The value of meditation is studied in classrooms, clinics, research laboratories, and ashrams – and we see it work everyday in ourselves, in those we love, in the world around us and in those we teach. Studies tell us that individuals 40 years and older go to the doctor 73% less often if they have a regular meditation practice. And meditators have 87.3% fewer admissions to the hospital for heart disease, and 55.4% fewer admissions for benign and malignant tumors of all types.

A 1974 study conducted at Harvard Medical School (and since repeated in other studies) reported that borderline hypertension often responds extremely well to meditation. Just by practicing meditation, most people under the age of 40 could expect to fall below the limit set for borderline hypertension, which is 130.90.

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