Published in August 10th, 2009
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Meditation is a method for focusing a person’s attention, which helps him to be relaxed and peaceful. It also fosters a lucid awareness of life. Eastern thinkers have perceived the benefits of mediation for thousand’s of years. It has in the last century become more accepted and practiced in the west. Western medicine has recognized its health value to a larger extent.
The two techniques of meditation practiced the most are: mindful and concentrative. Transcendental meditation is an example of concentrative meditation. This type of meditation concentrates on one mantra or image or the person’s breathing. Mindful MBSR means Mindful Based Stress Reduction. It is a kind of complementarily medicine that addresses the physical and emotional health of the patient.
MBSR doesn’t have the patient focus on an object, sound or his breathing. It is a method of being aware of what goes through the mind like thoughts, sounds, emotions or images.
Meditation includes steady, slow breathing, while being still for period of ten to twenty minutes.
It is used to help treat a lot of different ailments including the physical and mental. It is used to treat addictive behaviors like drug and alcohol use. Stress, depression, and anxiety are treated with it. The National Institutes of Health states that transcendental meditation is an excellent treatment for high blood pressure.
Meditation is used to treat pain and host flashes. It helps relieve the anxiety caused by having a long-term disease such as cancer. It also helps to heal headaches and migraines, and to recover from illness. It isn’t a good healing method for those with respiratory problems because they have a hard time breathing deeply or for anyone that can’t be comfortable sitting for a prolonged period.
Some of its benefits are: calmness, ease, emotional balance improved, enhances self-esteem, focuses thinking, clarifies thinking, and makes calm when facing a challenge.
Psychologically, meditation helps people break free from a habit of being preoccupied with the past or the future–it beings the person into the now. Some people are stuck in a frame of mind that is waiting for someone to love them, for someone to be kind, to have the perfect life, home, family. They are living and waiting for a mythology to make everything right according to Daeja Napier who founded the Insight Meditation Center in Boston. Napier explains that what is missing in life many times is being mindful and meditation helps a person be mindful. He gets control of his mind and thinking and can empty his mid of chatter and random thoughts.
Mediation is a sound technique for gaining many emotional, and physical benefits and for getting focused. It calms the mind and body and brings harmony to the adherent’s system. It is now accepted more so in the West and has been proven in various studies to be an effective treatment. It is being used in major hospitals as a complementary method of treatment for various diseases whether emotional, psychological or physical.
jane michael is the head writer at the center for meditation. http://www.centerformeditation.org/various-forms-of-meditation-articles.htmlkriya techniques are her practice and her passion. goals of zen meditation is a great way to start your meditation practice.read some of her articles about other amazing http://www.centerformeditation.org inner growth tools here.
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