In today’s hi-tech, fast-paced lifestyle, life has gotten mechanical. It is about instant gratification with all sorts of luxuries and sophistication.
On the other hand, little do we have time to make time for ourselves – especially the employed. These days, with hectic work schedules, making time for your happiness or your family’s has become a big deal.
As they say, the best way to a peaceful and happy life is a strong connection with your own self. It simply helps you pause and gain utmost clarity of what you want and how you can achieve it in life. One way to achieve this connection is by meditation.
Meditation has always been a highly recommended practice, religiously, spiritually, and medically since time immemorial.
Since the early 1900s research on meditation began and is still going on. Scientific research has brought to light that practicing meditation brings about numerous physical, mental, and social personality transformations within oneself. Also, meditation is said to have plenty of benefits such as self-awareness, emotional control, better relationships, career growth, time management, etc.
So let’s try and make some time in our 24 hours every day for our own betterment!
What is Meditation?
Contemplating a thing or a thought (subject) deeply, for long with steady concentration is meditation.
The subject of your meditation can be anything, which you consider to be the best for yourself. You might have identified the subject from your religious or spiritual orders, meditation or medical practitioners, etc.
Meditation for a Better Life!
Meditation automatically and gradually brings about a huge impact on the minds of the meditators. This gives rise to suppressing negativities like restlessness, anxiety, hopelessness, etc. Resulting in the overall personality transformation. Boosting qualities like self-confidence, patience, self or family responsibilities, etc. It helps you gain steadiness and better perspectives on various aspects of life. This helps one smoothen their own lives and in turn society as well.
Meditation for a Sound Mind!
It is said that our lives are directly shaped by our minds! And meditation is one of the best and easiest ways to sharpen and brighten our minds. Providing food for the mind is as important as providing food for the body. And meditation is the purest and the best food one can provide to the mind. Noise to the mind is stress! And meditation is said to be one of the number one strategies for stress management. It naturally and effortlessly calms you down and always keeps you cheered up.
Meditation for a Sound Body!
Meditation is scientifically proven to be a great exercise and relaxation for the brain. When the brain is rested, it becomes totally aware and active. This brings about activeness in the overall activities of the body. This lessens the feeling of fatigue and stresses that we often tend to experience. Inducing lightness, newness, and high spirits always. It is also said to bring about cures or improvements for various respiratory, neuro, cardiac, etc., diseases, regulate blood pressure, and various other health benefits. Mediation slowly but surely brings about drastic changes to one’s physical health.
To summarize, meditation is a beautiful and the utmost technique for ‘A sound mind in a sound body’.
Meditation is nothing but oneness, closeness, and love towards one’s own self.
Maintaining a fine work-life balance is simply a few minutes of meditation a day!
‘Few minutes of meditation a day keeps the stress away!’
