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Meditation is the training of the mind. It is intended to purify the mind and it is a means of transforming the mind. The result of a consistent meditation practice is indeed personal transformation.
The “you” that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same “you” that comes out on the other side. Meditation changes your character by a process of sensitization: by making you deeply aware of your own thoughts, words, and deeds. Your arrogance and antagonism dry up. Your tension, fear and worries are reduced. Your mind becomes still and calm. Things begin to fall into place, and your life becomes a glide instead of a struggle.
Meditation practices are simple techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, emotional positivity, and a calm seeing of the true nature of things. By engaging with a particular meditation practice you learn the patterns and habits of your mind, and the practice offers a means to cultivate new, more positive ways of being. With regular work and patience these nourishing, focused states of mind can deepen into profoundly peaceful and energized states of mind. Such experiences can have a transformative effect and can lead to a new understanding of life.
Anyone who meditates regularly receives profound benefits on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Some examples of benefits include:
Relief from stress and anxiety (meditation mitigates the effects of the “fight-or-flight” response, decreasing the production of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline)- Decreased blood pressure and hypertension
- Lower cholesterol levels
- More efficient oxygen use by the body
- Increased production of the anti-aging hormone DHEA
- Restful sleep
- Restoration of the brain (a landmark study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital found that as little as eight weeks of meditation helped people feel calmer and produced changes in various areas of the brain, including growth in the areas associated with memory, empathy, sense of self, and stress regulation)
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Meditation: Why Bother?
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“What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now. The consequences of an evil mind will follow you like the cart follows the ox that pulls it. The consequences of a purified mind will follow you like your own shadow. No one can do more for you than your own purified mind– no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness“.
~ The Dhammapada (an ancient Buddhist text – the teachings of the Buddha
– which anticipated Freud by thousands of years)
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