Sunday, November 1, 2009

Discover How Meditation Can Change Your Life in 7 Incredible Ways!

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 Completely Relaxed Body and Mind

As you reach a more deeply relaxed state during meditation, you become more fully rested and renewed - probably even more than after hours of sleep. Fears and concerns will no longer trouble you and will all seem trivial because you are viewing them with a refreshed mind. Feelings of anxiety and agitation no longer influence you.

2. Clarity of Mind

After each meditation, you will be able to think more clearly. You will be able to look at a situation or a problem with greater clarity of mind. You will intuitively know how to balance the emotional and practical aspects of things. You will stop acting hastily, or out of clouded judgment. You will become fully aware of how you feel and you will be better prepared to determine the right courses of action.

3. Complete Healing and Wellness

As you relax your body and mind, your body heals itself more quickly. When you let go of all thoughts, your body lets go of all tension and starts to fully rest. Energy is no longer used up by constant thinking; it gets allotted to your recovery from ailments and illnesses.

4. A More Intensified Creative Mind

Inspiration and ideas are found more easily when your mind is at peace and you are in touch with your inner self. The practice of meditation allows your creative aspect to express itself more clearly. If you go through a period when your creative side seems faint, meditation can help awaken it.

5. Heightened Self-Awareness

Meditating can help you determine how you truly are and how you really feel. If you are not in a good mood, you can immediately address it by calming the self. If you are feeling good or happy, then becoming fully aware of it magnifies your joy. This is why it is always good to look within by meditating.

6. Improved Ability to Focus and Concentrate

In meditation, you become free of disturbing images and worrisome thoughts that disrupt your concentration. To achieve this, you need to let each of them go, one by one. This can be considered challenging especially if you are very much affected by the thoughts that recur in your head. Eventually though, you will see how meditation can heighten your ability to focus, despite the presence of distractions around you.

7. Discovering Inner Peace

Most of your physical ailments and causes of stress arise from your constant over-thinking. A lot of times, you may feel angrier, sadder, or more frustrated because of the thoughts and replay of unpleasant memories in your head. You close your eyes and then these are the things you find within you. In meditation, you learn to close your eyes and not be bombarded by these thoughts. Meditation teaches you to find silence within. It guides you to your innermost aspect, where perfect peace lies.

Meditation has always addressed the needs of different people. Meditation can truly help you - whether you need to fully rest, find freedom from negative thoughts, or experience peace within the self. Meditation always has a wonderful effect - you will always come out of each session feeling great and rejuvenated. When you make meditation part of your daily life, you will fully experience its benefits all your life.

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