| One of the most amazing things about meditation | | | | way to go), but the day to day improvements |
| is that you will feel better after 20 minutes | | | | are less noticeable from when you started. The |
| successful meditation than after 10 hours of | | | | novelty begins to wear of. This is the period when |
| sleep, of course its not intended to replace sleep, | | | | you need to show most determination. This is |
| but will leave you more relaxed, more rested, and | | | | were you go on to become fit or you go back to |
| more alert. | | | | being a couch potato. If at this stage you do |
| As you read through the list of benefits that | | | | abandon your exercise programme you soon |
| meditation brings the claims may seem almost | | | | become aware how much good it was doing you. |
| miraculous. This is not the case. The | | | | If on the other hand you had stuck with the |
| transformation is not overwhelming the process is | | | | programme during the slow period you would be |
| slow, subtle, and cumulative, and long lasting. | | | | so much closer to your ultimate goal -fitness. |
| Think of it like you have just joined the gym. You | | | | Meditation works just like that. It is an exercise |
| know exercise is good for you, but you also | | | | for the mind and emotions, like all exercise |
| know that 20 minutes exercise a month just | | | | programmes there is an immediate result. Then |
| wont cut it, to feel the full benefits you must | | | | there is a tendency to become impatient, but if |
| exercise regularly, so you do it regularly. | | | | you persist knowing the effort is well worth it, |
| After the first week you feel like you are getting | | | | you soon begin to notice significant improvements. |
| somewhere, you feel relaxed, you are eating | | | | You will have become more relaxed, more able to |
| good food, you sleep like a baby, and as you | | | | cope with everyday annoyances, your capacity to |
| continue you get more and more fit. | | | | enjoy life will be enhanced, you will have your wits |
| After a month or so you start thinking you are at | | | | about you, you will be keener, more creative, |
| your physical best (of course there is still a long | | | | better health, you will flourish as a human being. |