All of us should try learning how to meditate in order to improve our day-to-day growth, as well as to cope with the ever busy world. Meditation comes in handle when dealing with anxiety.
The entire role of meditation is to help find your inner peace that is the art of putting all that chaos in your mind and you life into some sort of order. The initial step of meditation is to bring you towards a point of calm, a point of peace upon which you are able to build and manage control. After you have reached that stage, you will be able to further explore your own mind. Our mind today often swirls with information, facts, stress, worries and much more simply because of the way in which we live and the bombardment of information from commercial entities. The role of meditation is to help you to find a way of managing that information and to reflect on your surroundings.
Meditation enables you to allocate that part at which you are able to cope and manage all those bombardments without feeling over whelmed however that is not the only reason why we should meditate. Check out some reasons why can look into practicing meditation.
One of the core reasons why an individual should meditate is to help with his or her ability to cope with stress and to become calm. One of the roles of meditation is to help release the alpha waves in both our left and right side of our brains. These alpha waves will help bring about a sense of calm, similar to when you would whistle a happy tune or simply day dream.
During your meditation, you will be brought into to a state of calm that will help you to cope with the daily stress of life. Base on statistics, many have found out that if they do not meditate for at least 20 minutes a day minimum, they discover that their ability to cope with the daily stress of work is far harder then when they have completed their meditation.
All types of meditation provides you with benefits on many levels, including:
Physiological/Physical
Rejuvenates the nervous system
- It strengthens neural pathways within your brain
- Increases lung capacity
- Increases oxygen flow to the brain
- Increase alertness
- Improves sleep
- Reduces the impact of asthma
- Improves immune system
- Help to battle against addiction/abuse recovery
- Reduces blood pressure
Mental/Emotional
- Calms the senses
- Focuses the mind towards clarity & perspective
- Soothes your over-stimulated self
- Reduces stress
- Promotes positive outlook, reduces negative thoughts
- Increases self-esteem
- Improves memories
- Minimizes anxiety and hypersensitivity
- Increases creativity
Spiritual
- Allows the flow of prana/chi/life energy through the body
- Develop, promote and maintain spiritual awareness
- Fuses an individual with consciousness and the truest higher self
- Enhances connection with the Divine
- Balances with the Doshas - especially Vata disturbances
- Prepares yourself for the transition of Death
- Enables us to open our minds and hearts with the intention of living more fully
- Brings us into the divinity of the present moment
