Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Meditation - 7 Powerful Ways It Can Change Your Life!

By Tana Hoy

Meditation can give you unlimited benefits. Here are 7 of the benefits with which meditation can change your life. As you continue with your meditation learning and practice, you will experience more and more of its truly wonderful benefits.

1. A Totally Relaxed Body and Mind

As you ease into more relaxed states during your meditation, you will feel more rested and refreshed - perhaps even more than after getting a few hours of sleep. Worries will no longer loom over you and will seem trivial when you view them with a well-rested mind. You will no longer feel hurried or agitated.

2. Clearness of Mind

With meditation, your thinking becomes very clear. You can look at a situation or an issue with clarity of mind. You will be able to judge between the emotional and practical aspects of a scenario. You will no longer act hastily nor decide based on your emotions. You will be fully aware of various angles of a situation and you will be able to fully understand why a certain decision has be made.

3. Complete Healing and Wellness

When your body and mind relax, your body heals itself faster. As you let go of thoughts that trouble you, your body is able to fully rest. Your body then becomes able to utilize the extra energy for faster recovery from any illness or negative state.

4. A More Intensified Creative Mind

With a peaceful mind and a deeper connection with yourself, you will find inspiration more easily. The practice of meditation lets your creative mind open up and express itself. So, when you feel like your creative side has not been active, meditation can aid in rejuvenating it.

5. Heightened Self-Awareness

When you meditate and connect with your deeper yourself, you get to know how you really are. If you are not feeling so well, you can work right away on making yourself feel better. If you are in a good state, and you become aware of it, then you highlight and multiply the joy that you feel. Looking inward and knowing how you truly are can always help you a lot.

6. Heightened Ability to Focus and Concentrate

You will find an inner stillness during meditation, where there are no bothersome images and nagging thoughts that will disrupt your concentration. But in order to achieve this, you need to let them go, one by one. This can be quite challenging especially when you are preoccupied by certain things which really affect you so much. But in time, you will discover how meditation can help increase your ability to focus on only one thing at a time, despite all the distractions around you.

7. Finding Inner Peace

Most of your physical illness and stress take root from thinking too much. If you will notice, you feel sadder, angrier, or more disappointed because you keep replaying unpleasant memories in your head. When you close your eyes, these are the things you see with your mind's eye. In meditation though, you learn to close your eyes without being bombarded by these bad thoughts. Meditation helps you find peace and quiet within, and you find these in deep meditative states.

Meditation has addressed many different needs that people have. Meditation can help you - whether you need to calm down, refrain from thinking worrisome thoughts, or just find some quiet time alone. Meditation always has an amazing effect - you will always find yourself in a much better state and condition after each session. Make meditation part of your daily practice, and you will experience these benefits all the time. - 14130

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