Importance Of Meditation

For thousands of years, people have practiced meditation for their physical and emotional wellbeing.
Meditation makes you more aware of your mind and helps you to feel the present moment.
Basically it is an act of giving your attention to only one thing either as a religious activity or as a way of becoming calm.
It has been scientifically proven that meditation helps in increasing activity in particular areas of the brain that is correlated with less anxiety and depression along with increase pain tolerance.
Meditates have low alpha waves in their brain that helps them feel positive and empathic.
When someone meditates daily for more than 8 weeks. He can clearly see the difference in his mood and focusing ability, Other than that memory processing and learning ability is also increased.
It does have a positive impact on your medical health too, it increases the immunity and makes your blood pressure fall in the normal range.
There are certain diseases where meditation can really help.

FOR DIABETIC PATIENT

A diabetic patient has food cravings all the time and it is really difficult for them to control it hence their weight gets stuck or increase repeatedly.
If they start meditating a few min daily then they can control their emotions and food cravings, so ultimately their weight will fall in the desired range.

LOWERS HIGH BP

Just like we know that hypertension (high blood pressure) is the leading cause of cardiovascular diseases these days and can be a cause for higher mortality.
So, this issue can be resolved too with the help of proper meditation.

TREATS INSOMNIA

It has been proved by many researches that people who meditate daily can sleep sooner and can stay asleep for a long period of time.

HELP IN LEAVING ADDICTIONS

A lot of people struggle with drug addictions and make their life hell because of that habit.
Researchers have shown that meditation can help people learn to redirect their attention and increase their willpower to keep their emotions in check.
When willpower becomes more prominent than its easy to realize the cause of impulsiveness.

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT

Anxiety and depression are the most current mental health issues that our generation is facing right now that can be easily managed by meditation.
It releases happy hormones and distress our bodies. In short, when you start feeling your surrounding then it gives you a sense of being in control hence lowers the anxiety levels.
There are several ways to meditate and you can choose whatever suits you.

CALMING TECHNIQUE

The main goal of calming meditation is to create a quieter, peaceful state of mind to improve concentration.
Mostly in calming meditation practices, we focus on a particular object(your breath, a visualization in your mind) and then return to that object when you get distracted or notice your mind starts wandering around.
Here you try to not think anything and just keep the focus on one thing.

INSIGHT TECHNIQUE

People who practice insight meditation often set a goal to transform their minds.

Their main goal is to make themselves more wise or compassionate.

It involves focusing on the breath and being aware of all the physical or mental sensations.

Basically here you are aware of your surroundings and environment.

REFLECTION TECHNIQUE

In this technique, you have to ask yourself a question like “What are you most grateful for?” or “What have you done in your life that makes you happy?”

Be aware of the feelings because feelings are the main focus here, nor the thoughts that keep arising.

COMPASSION TECHNIQUE

In this technique we think about a person and observe our feelings, opening heart to other people can make us happy too.

TIPS REGARDING MEDITATION

These are few tips to meditate properly
• Sit peacefully in a straight position.
• Back should be in perfect alignment.
• Close your eyes.
• Breathe in and out slowly.
• Try to feel your surroundings.
• If you notice that you are unable to focus and keep having random thoughts then you should try to focus on your breathing pattern.
• It’s not common for people to have 100% focus in their first meditation session but as you will progress it will be easy for you to concentrate.
• Try meditating 5 minutes first then gradually increase it.
• There is no rule that you can’t meditate at night, chose the time that suits you.
• It will take time to get stick to that routine so don’t judge yourself if you feel it hard to follow.
• Use any meditation music app.

PLACES WHERE WE SHOULD MEDITATE

• It’s better to choose natural places (parks, green areas) to meditate since this environment can have a positive effect on your mood and it will be a lot easier to focus.
• Noisy places are a big no.
• Quiet home places are fine to meditate too.

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