Meditation is a life skill that we can easily learn and practice with broad reaching positive effects – primarily to ourselves but also to our families, our friends, our society and our world.
With the rigours of modern day living and all the demands that we place on ourselves – family, friends, earning a living, and the rapidly changing environment – we accumulate stress, fatigue and tension in the mind and body. This has a depleting and detrimental effect.
Stress, fatigue and tension rob us and all those around us of our clear thinking, creative, energetic, intelligent, happy, and healthy self. When this happens, we are unable to enjoy our lives to the fullest and can feel a sense of something lacking or incompleteness.
Meditation is the antidote to stress, tension and fatigue and the key to accessing more of our higher qualities more of the time.
Just a few minutes, morning and evening practicing meditation can have enormous impact on all areas of life.
Being able to manage stress, reducing worry and anxiety, we can be present and enjoy what is in front of us right now. By knowing that we have the inner means to deal with all that life brings to us, we can cope without being overwhelmed or negatively impacted.
The Benefits
The benefit meditation brings to the body is rest, scientifically proven to be up to 5 times deeper than sleep. Meditators report that 20 minutes of meditation is as refreshing as 3 to 4 hours sleep.
This deep rest allows the mind and body to process accumulated stress, fatigue and tension on a daily basis and increases our ability to access a state of mind that gives us the perspective and insights required to interact more successfully with all of our daily demands.
A rested body and therefore rested mind result in greater clarity of mind, more creative thought process, increased energy levels, greater access to natural intelligence and memory and greater physical health.
The benefits of meditation are not only anecdotal, there have been in excess of 600 independent scientific studies performed on the neuro-physiological benefits that come from practicing meditation.
Specific areas of benefit include:
- Clearer thinking
- Improved memory, energy, creativity, intelligence
- Improved relationships
- Relief from depression and anxiety
- Relief from migraines, headaches and asthma
- Relief from insomnia and other sleeping disorders
- Faster reaction times
- Reduced cholesterol levels
- Relief from fatigue
- Stronger immune system
- Reduced risk of heart disease
- Normalisation of blood pressure
- Improved sports performance
- Reduced use of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs
- Normalisation of weight
