| Below are 11 benefits why you should use | | | | an activity whole heartedly the outside world |
| meditation to assist you in releasing stress, | | | | disappears. Think about this as it would relate to |
| anxiety, emotional trauma, health issues such as | | | | playing a sport, creating a work of art, tending to |
| high blood pressure and much more. It's a lot | | | | a garden. Through meditation, you can discover |
| easier to do than you think and the benefits out | | | | how to give the same focused attention and |
| way the time spent. | | | | derive the same enjoyment. |
| 1. The present moment: When rush from | | | | 7. Getting grounded and balanced: When you |
| moment to moment, looking for your next | | | | practice meditation daily, your body, breath, |
| pleasure or anticipating a problem, you miss the | | | | sensations, and your feelings grow to realize that |
| beauty and immediacy of the present. Meditation | | | | you're always home. No matter where you go. In |
| teaches you to slow down and take each | | | | knowing yourself you can embrace the dark with |
| moment as it comes. | | | | the light, the weak with the strong and you will be |
| 2. Become your own best friend: When you live | | | | able to survive all insecurities of a fast paced |
| up to expectations and images or racing to | | | | world. |
| reinvent yourself to survive in a competitive | | | | 8. Work and Play: Basic meditation practice |
| situation, you lose the opportunity to really get to | | | | enhances perceptual clarity, creativity, self |
| know yourself. Self-doubt and self hatred are | | | | actualization which contributes to superior |
| usually at the root of the issue, but remember | | | | performance. Meditation practices can be |
| these negative thoughts fuel negative mind-states | | | | customized for specific goals and a variety of |
| such as fear, anger, depression and alienation | | | | activities for enhancement. |
| which prevent you from living up to your true | | | | 9. Gratitude, Love and Happiness: Imagine gazing |
| potential. When you meditate, you learn to | | | | at the world with fresh eyes. As you begin to |
| welcome every experience of your being without | | | | open to your experience without judgment, your |
| judgment or denial. You then begin to treat | | | | heart opens as well. Forgiveness and appreciation |
| yourself as you would treat a close friend. | | | | for yourself and others will be enhanced in your |
| 3. Connect deeply with others: When you awaken | | | | daily practice. |
| to the present moment and open your heart and | | | | 10. Purpose: when you align yourself with "just |
| mind to your own experiences, you naturally | | | | being" and you shift away from doing and thinking, |
| extend this quality of awareness to your | | | | you discover how to be yourself with a deeper |
| relationships with family and friends. This breaks | | | | sense of meaning and belonging. You may actually |
| the barrier of expectation and projection of our | | | | get in touch with feelings and aspirations that |
| own desires. When you accept others the way | | | | have been dormant from your conscious mind. |
| they are, you open up the channels for deeper | | | | Only to discover your true-self now inspired with |
| love and intimacy by practicing meditation daily. | | | | new goals and a vision for your future. |
| 4. Relaxing your body and mind: As health | | | | 11. Spiritual Awakening: as your meditation opens |
| researchers have shown, the body and mind are | | | | to each moment, you will be able to see through |
| inseparable. An irritated mind produces a stressed | | | | the veil of appearances to a sacred reality of the |
| out body. As the mind relaxes during meditation, | | | | heart of things and you will eventually come to |
| so does the body. In time this peace and | | | | realize that the very same sacred reality is |
| relaxation will grow in every aspect of your life | | | | actually who you are in your own heart of hearts. |
| including your health. | | | | Breaking through the illusion of separation |
| 5. Detach and experience freedom: Nonstop | | | | eliminates loneliness and alienation and opens your |
| thinking and worrying, fears feeding on fears, | | | | beauty to the great human condition. |
| problems magnified, create feelings of being | | | | Meditation has been a powerful tool for me to |
| overwhelmed. Meditation encourages an inner | | | | see past the illusions of my preconceptions and |
| mental spaciousness in which difficulties no longer | | | | living up expectations of others mostly from |
| seem so threatening. Solutions can naturally arise | | | | childhood. Along with a holistic lifestyle of yoga, |
| creating a sense of detachment allowing for | | | | bowing and exercise, I have unlocked the secrets |
| greater objectivity and perspective. | | | | of the journey to help others after 25 years of |
| 6. Getting in the zone: When you get involved in | | | | research and development. |