• What is Meditation
• Benefits of meditation
• Different kinds of meditations

What is meditation?

Meditation is a process by which you can relax your body and mind. It has been proved already that, you can control your body and mind with a great extent if you can practice meditation regularly and if you can do it properly.

Modern day physician are constantly emphasizing on the relaxation of body and mind for preventing many health problems. Why not? Many health related problems are only associated with mental issues. Regular meditation can keep one's mind more relaxed. As a result less health related problems caused by mental issues

Meditation is not for particular sex or for particular aged people. It's for everyone. As our modern day life is full of challenges and problems, our body and mind are not relaxed properly.Meditation can be a very good practice to relax the restless body and mind

Benefits of doing meditation

Benefits of meditation can be realized in every aspect of our life. If you can do it properly, you will be so benefited by it that your whole life will be changed for better. It will keep you mentally sound & relaxed; it will keep your health condition better; it will boost your confidence & self esteem and so on....

To get the full benefits of meditation you must practice it regularly. It's an exercise of your body and mind which will over time help you to control and program your mind as per your desire. Many people even can control many of their physical processes with the help of meditation like controlling temperature, keeping blood pressure normal, keeping a good level of energy.

But you cannot expect to do these kind of things at first. For normal people, mental benfits will be realized earlier than the physical. You must practice and practice with patience and concentration. Over time you will get these kind of body and mind controlling power by doing meditation

So what are the benefits? By doing meditation you can get:

• Mental
• Physical&
• Spiritual benefits

Mental benefits of meditation

Following are the most common mental benefits you will get by doing meditation.

• Relaxed Mind
• Increased ability to manage stress
• Greater concentrating ability
• Boost in confidence
• Greater level of self esteem
• Increased analizing ability
• Increased power of memorizing
• Greater control over anger
• Increased control over negative emotions
• Increased level of motivation
• Increased level of happiness

Physical benefits of meditation

Benefits of meditation are clearly understandable and realizable for mind. But, if you do meditate regularly you will also understand the physical benefits of doing meditation.

As our mind & body are connected to each other with mind our body also gets the benefits of meditation. But if you can become a master of meditation then you will be able to directly control some physical processes and activities of your body.

If you do meditation just to relax your body and mind you will get the following physical benefits:

• Controlled blood pressure
• Increased energy and stamina
• Brighter skin
• Healthier heart
• Healthier Muscles
• Healthier inner organs like stomach, lungs, kidneys, liver and pancreas

But if you can become an expert in doing deep level of meditation by practicing it regularly and with more concentration, then you will get a power of controlling many activities of your body through mind.If you can achieve this power by meditating deeply then you will be able to:

• Relax your body within a very short time (within 2-3 minutes)
• Control your body temperature
• Control your weight
• Control blood sugar level
• Heal any wound more rapidly
• Control hunger

Spiritul benefits of meditation

Our judgement of good and bad, walking through a path of honesty, doing the right things and every other things and habits are related to mind. If you can't control your mind you will be tempted to do bad things and many times you may do them.

But if you can control your mind by doing meditation regularly then your spirit will be free from misguidance and temptation to do bad things. So you can be a man of higher moral values, higher level of honesty and most of all you will have a free spirit

Types of meditation

There are many ways that you can meditate. There is no hard and fast rules that you have to follow during the meditation. You can follow the styles and process of meditations which are developed by others or you can develop a style of yours own to do meditation.

Different kinds of meditations are practiced throughout the world in different eras. Meditations at present time are quite different from past times. But the basic objective is same for all kinds of meditations that is, to relax the mind & the body and unleash the power of mind.

Almost all meditations can be broadly classified into the following two categories:

• Concentrative meditation
• Non concentrative or Mindfulness meditation

1. Concentrative meditation: In concentrative type of meditations the meditator concentrates on a particular thing like breath or object or image or imaginary objects or imaginary environments. During this type of meditations mind and body is relaxed by focusing one thing at a time.

   As for example: In some concentrative meditations mind is relaxed by focusing on the breathing. At first she sits or lie down to have a comfortable position. Then meditator takes long & deep breaths. After taking breaths for sometimes she focuses on the inhalation and exhalation. In this way mind and body gets relaxed. Then meditator may focus on something else like imagining herself in a place of sanctuary and peace where her mind and body gets more relaxed.

2. Non concentrative or Mindfulness meditation: In nonconcentrative type of meditations the meditator does not focuses on anything. In other words she doesn't control any of her thoughts and feelings. Instead she just let her thoughts and feelings come and pass through her mind without trying to control or interfere them.

   During this type of meditation the meditator tries to stay only in the present by making her mind full of the thoughts which are coming at the moments of meditation. Not reacting to these thoughts gives a clear and non-reactive state of mind. Thus the required relaxation is achieved

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