| ople see meditation as something that is 'new age' | | | | and better able to handle the trials of everyday |
| or 'alternative.' Nothing could be further from the | | | | life. |
| truth. Meditation, which has become more and | | | | 7.Meditation helps you to reach a higher plane, |
| more popular in recent years, is actually a lost art | | | | where you are able to see things much clearer. |
| form, which has been practiced for thousands and | | | | No matter what problems you may have, when |
| thousands of years. So, how can the lost art of | | | | you meditate, solutions for those problems simply |
| meditation improve your life? | | | | become clearer in your mind, and then you are |
| 1.Through meditation, you can build confidence. | | | | able to take action to clear away the problems. |
| The best way to build confidence with meditation | | | | 8.Studies have shown that meditation helps you |
| is through guided meditation, which means that | | | | to lose weight. Those who diet and exercise, in an |
| you use a recording to lead you through the | | | | effort to lose weight find that they get greater |
| meditation process. While this is happening, the | | | | results faster, and with permanent results, when |
| recorded messages are actually building up your | | | | they throw regular meditation into the mix. Stress |
| self confidence. It's absolutely amazing. | | | | has always been a hindrance to losing weight, |
| 2.With meditation, you can seriously increase your | | | | which is probably why meditation does indeed |
| energy and your strength. Because stress has so | | | | help. |
| many profound effects on us mentally and | | | | 9.Other studies have also shown that meditation |
| physically, when we use meditation to eliminate or | | | | lowers the risk of heart disease. The research |
| better control stress, we almost instantly have | | | | done at the Georgia Prevention Institute found |
| more energy - because our minds aren't weighed | | | | that the blood vessel lining was better able to |
| down with problems, and more strength, because | | | | relax in subjects who included meditation on a |
| stress can literally affect your immune system, | | | | regular basis. This relaxation of the blood vessel |
| which affects everything else. | | | | lining can be achieved with medication as well, |
| 3.Meditation has proven to reduce stress, and | | | | which is how heart disease patients are currently |
| many find that they experience less instances of | | | | treated. |
| stress when they practice meditation on a regular | | | | 10.People who start out the day with fifteen to |
| basis. It's a proven tension reliever. | | | | thirty minutes of meditation find that they |
| 4.Meditation helps to keep you in a positive frame | | | | statistically have a better, happier day. They are |
| of mind, by actually increasing the levels of | | | | able to handle anything that comes up with ease, |
| serotonin produced by the brain. This will alleviate | | | | with no stress - or at the very least minimal |
| headaches, tension, depression, and numerous | | | | short term stress, and move easily from task to |
| other problems, and give you a great sense of | | | | task, with complete focus. |
| well-being as well. | | | | The numerous mental and physical benefits of |
| 5.With regular meditation, your blood pressure will | | | | meditation should be enough to convince |
| remain normal. This is largely due to the stress | | | | everyone that meditation is one of the elements |
| relief that meditation provides, but there is also an | | | | of a healthy, happy, peaceful life. Unfortunately, |
| impact on how blood moves through the body, | | | | there are many people who feel that they are |
| and how the blood vessels react in such a positive | | | | too busy to learn meditation, much less to |
| way to meditation. So, in this sense, the result of | | | | practice it. The good news is that meditation isn't |
| normal blood pressure has both mental and | | | | at all hard to learn - and if you really take a look |
| physical origins. | | | | at the benefits, the real question should be how |
| 6.Through regular meditation, you will find that you | | | | can you afford not to make time for daily - or at |
| are better able to focus, that your memory is | | | | least weekly - meditation? |
| better, and that your mind simply 'feels' stronger | | | | |