Benefits of Meditation for the Wellness of Ourselves
Meditation, an exercise recommended for
everyone, but especially those of us with
hectic, stressful lifestyles, is defined as
an engagement in contemplation, especially of a spiritual
or devotional nature. Meditation has been shown to relieve stress,
and promote overall good
health, by simply reflecting upon our day,
and finding happiness within ourselves.
This and other
mind exercises help us to keep our mind
fit, and functioning at top performance levels.
But up
until the last twenty years, meditation was
something the western world new little about.
Is it
necessary for our health? Or have we just
come up with a new fad, to fill up the empty hours of
our day? 17
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| Benefits of Meditation for the Wellness of Ourselves |
Our mind has varying levels of operation,
known as brainwaves. As we pass through
the
different stages of our day, we enter
various stages of brain wave activity.
The brain uses this
tool as one way to allow us time to rest
our busy mind, and cope with all the pieces of
information we’ve received, a way to kind
of “mind file” for the day.
Modern alternative medicine and holistic
healers believe in the power of the energy that
flows through our bodies; this energy
radiates from our mind as well. It is
believed to be the
chief from of transportation for our body’s
nervous system to carry out communication.
Breathing techniques, music, aromas, and
candle therapy are all ways we utilize the opportunities
to reflect on our day, allow our mind to
rest and replenish itself for further use.
But are these
methods keeping us mentally fit? Yes, it does help to keep us mentally
fit. The great benefit in
meditation, however, the mind’s ability to
transform itself into a vehicle for higher awareness.
Meditation is a way for us to become aware
of the fact that there is more to our being than just
our physical activity. We have so much more potential locked away in
our mind, resources that
we never tap into until we have the chance
to quiet the mind, quiet our surroundings and open
the door to the possibilities we don’t
examine on a day to day basis.
In our meditative state, thoughts that
never have the opportunity to be heard during the
bustle of the day are afforded the
opportunity to come forward and be heard.
Every step that
we take is a step in some direction for our
life. The opportunity to set our own
destiny, develop
our manifestation of what we believe our
life should be, is the opportunity meditation provides.
Every action we’ve ever taken started as a
thought. The thought was then brought
into reality
by our action on that thought. So are we
able to produce new thoughts and new possibilities, in
this time of quiet reflection.
It is in these small moments of creativity
and higher conscious operation that our mind
heals itself from the stresses of the
everyday activities, and maintains a real level of healthy
operation.
Our mind is like our body, we don’t have to look unhealthy to be
unhealthy, and
sooner or later, the illnesses show.
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