Unlock the Power of Your Mind with Meditation

Unlock the Power of Your Mind with Meditation

Introduction:

The modern world is full of stress. Stress comes from various spheres of life. It can be related to job, personal relationships, financial issues, or health-related problems. This stress takes away our peace of mind and puts us in the habit of overthinking. The mind is not able to concentrate properly on anything. And slowly the mind cells start to degenerate if proper steps are not taken at the proper time.

Several medications are available but they come at the hefty price of side effects. Their long-term use is never advisable. Their overdose can cause severe health issues that may become incurable. 

The best way to make your mind stress-free is to take the help of meditation. The deep inhaling and exhaling help you to throw stress out of your mind and makes it calm and peaceful. You learn to be present at the moment and forget about the pains of the past and worries of the future. A healthy mind gives you a healthy body and to have this healthy mind advantages of meditation come into play.

What is Meditation and its Process?

It is said that your mind is your friend if you control it, but it is your enemy if it controls you. When a person goes through stress, it is evident that he/she is controlled by the mind. One learns to train his/her mind so that it does not start wandering and keeps getting filled with negative thoughts. 

Meditation is the practice that teaches you how to train your mind to keep it under your control. It is the ancient Indian practice that was discovered by the yogis and people are reaping its benefits for ages. With meditation, you would learn how to control the flow of emotions and thoughts. It is often called that meditation is a spiritual or religious practice. But it is not so. Even science has proved what are the benefits of meditation for a person.

There are so many methods to meditate, but here we are discussing the most common process that is used. One must keep in mind that for performing meditation, you need a quiet place that is totally distraction-free:

• Set a duration for how much time you are going to meditate.
• Sit or stand in the selected place and shut your eyes.
• The position you choose to meditate on should be comfortable enough to spend the decided time in the selected position with ease.
• After closing your eyes, put your entire focus on your breathing and on your body. Try to feel your body.
• Actor focusing on your breathing and body, shift your focus towards your thoughts and emotions. Try to understand them and their flow.
• Your mind will start wandering but do not panic. Whenever it starts to wander, just bring its focus back on your breath.
• Slowly open your eyes after the meditation session is complete and you will definitely be able to feel the relief.

The above practice will slowly teach you how to control your mind and gradually you will start to feel the importance of meditation and positive changes inside you.

What is the Use of Meditation in Emotional and Physical Well-Being?

Having a healthy body is important but you cannot have it if you do not have a healthy and peaceful mind. A person’s emotional as well as physical health are very much important for his/her overall well-being. There are so many yoga asanas available that help you in keeping yourself physically fit but if you are not emotionally healthy then these asanas will not be able to give you full benefit. So, to keep yourself emotionally healthy you must adopt the practice of meditation. Once your mind becomes healthy, your body will start to gain the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise.

Types of Meditation:

Meditation can be performed in various ways. Its types are briefly described below:

• Mindfulness Meditation: In this kind of meditation the thoughts going through the mind are just observed and not processed. It helps to make you less judgemental. It also teaches you to enjoy the moment and forget about the past and future.
• Spiritual Meditation: With this meditation, you can have a deep understanding of the spiritual and/or religious meanings of the things happening around you all the time and connect yourself with the almighty.
• Focused Meditation: As the name implies, in this meditation you need to focus on something and keep your mind away from every other distraction, as you can focus on counting beads of a mala, you can focus on the flame of a candle, etc.
• Guided Meditation: This meditation is performed with the help of a teacher or with pre-recorded audio. The teacher or the audio guides you through the steps of meditation and takes your brain into a world of peace.
• Mantra Meditation: In this meditation, some mantra, like the recital of ‘Om,’ is chanted either loudly or in a low voice. Your entire mind is concentrated on the chanting of the mantra and is stopped from wandering.
• Loving-Kindness Meditation: This meditation helps you in being loving and compassionate towards others. While meditating you just think about the well-being of others.

What are the Benefits of Meditation?

You must be wondering about the question ‘What is the use of meditation?’ The importance of meditation in today’s world can only be understood once you make it a habit and starts to see positive changes in your body and mind. Let us look at some of the main benefits of meditation:

• Being self-aware is extremely important. If you cannot understand yourself then how will you will be able to overcome the issues you are facing in your life? Meditation helps you in being self-aware by connecting the mind with the body.
• Stress can make your life distressful and you may start to lose interest in living. Meditation helps you to overcome stress issues and keeps your mind at peace.
• Being mindful is pure bliss. It means that you forget about the past and future and just love the current moment you are living in. Meditation makes you mindful and you learn to focus on the things at hand.
• Addiction can take a toll on your health. Bad habits, like smoking, alcohol consumption, drug consumption, etc. can be handled well with the help of meditation.
• Having 7 to 8 hours of sound and peaceful sleep is very much important for a healthy mind as well as body. With the help of meditation, your brain stays at peace and you get enough amount of sleep.
• Meditation makes you less judgemental and you learn to be kind, helpful, and loving towards others. It turns you into a good human being.
• Stress brings you the issue of high blood pressure. By removing stress from your life, meditation keeps your BP levels good.
• Meditation helps you in being a positive person, who has a positive attitude towards life. You learn to overcome your negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones.

Conclusion:

In a nutshell, meditation is important for your mental as well as physical health. You must make it a practice and include it in your daily life routine. Even if you lack time to do meditation, you can do it before going to sleep it will help you sleep better.