Monday, June 27, 2011

Meditation – The Ultimate Life-Management System available!

Meditation is the fastest path to understanding the mind and knowing yourself. 
Contrary to popular belief, authentic meditation is totally non-religious, very scientific, and an empowering technique without par. The fact that it has not just existed but thrived for almost 10,000 years all over the world speaks volumes for its credibility.
Here are some facts about meditation which you should know. Withdrawing from the mainstream of life is just the opposite of what we are trying to achieve when we meditate. By bringing out our full potential, meditation allows us to enjoy life to the fullest. We do not have to retreat to caves for our sessions - the same results are reaped when we meditate in the comfort of our homes. Meditation is simple and effortless once the habit is developed. Anyone can meditate. Meditation is a simple, natural and effortless technique for quietening and stilling the mind, making us experience an inner peace and leading us to connect with our True Self. Meditation is simple because it works in harmony with your true nature or your higher consciousness. The state of total health, peace and happiness is already there - all you have to do is use a technique to arrive at it. Meditation is a very powerful, time-efficient and safe way of doing this. Mediation is a scientific technique and is totally non-religious. It's time-honoured, having proven itself for thousands of years.


Since the mind is the source of unhappiness or happiness, stress or calm, sickness or well being, failure or success, it is only logical that we should direct our attention to the mind.
Once we start meditating, we become more peaceful, less reactive and more stable - all states that lead to greater efficiency in our life with less stress or friction. Tense muscles, overactive nerves and an overactive mind drain our energy reserves. Becoming calm energises you once again.

Calmness and vitality are complementary. People who are ‘hyper’ may seem energetic but they are actually fuelled by nervous energy. They end up irritable and mentally exhausted when their nervous energy wears off.

You will feel the beneficial effects of meditation even after your first few sessions. The effects are subtle but cumulative. So every passing day you will find yourself a little less stressed and a little happier.

In meditation lie the solutions to all our sufferings. The human mind is the creator of our happiness or unhappiness, joy or sorrow, pleasure or pain, freedom or bondage, stress or relaxation, good or bad, failure or success, and by understanding one self, one understands the mind and how to create what is beneficial for us and others and desist from the unconscious creation of what pains us and others.
Meditation has benefits on many different levels. It works on the physical body and through it goes deeper to the emotional and mental self of the practitioner. It’s easy to learn and can be practised almost anywhere including in your office or car while commuting.

Here are just some of the important health benefits of meditation -

1) Meditation leads to Reduced Blood Pressure
The release of stress causes our muscles to relax, including the muscular walls of our blood vessels. This means more blood can pump through the vessels and there is less resistance to the overall flow. This means less blood pressure.
In contrast, high blood pressure is recognised as a major factor in producing heart diseases and heart attacks.

2) Meditation creates Improved Sleep
When we meditate regularly, we tend to fall asleep quicker and our sleep is deeper. This means we get more and better quality sleep. As a result, we wake up feeling fresher and more alive. We also feel more energetic and calmer throughout the day.

3) Meditation increases Blood Circulation to all Organs and Glands
Relaxed blood vessels allow increased blood flow to all body parts.
Increased blood flow to the brain means we feel fresher and can think more clearly. It also helps to prevent strokes. Increased blood flow to the digestive system means it will function better and we will digest and assimilate food better.

4) Meditation balances the Two Hemispheres of the Brain
Studies show meditation has a balancing and harmonising effect on the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
Our left hemisphere is responsible for our logical thinking. The right side is responsible for feelings. Due to fast-paced modern life, many of us tend to operate more from the left hemisphere. We think too much and analyse too much, at the expense of our feelings.
Meditation allows us to have the right balance of logical analytical thought and emotional feelings.
5) Meditation helps Asthma
A clinical research conducted by Ron Honsberger and Archie F. Wilson in the USA reported that asthmatic patients showed improvement in their asthma after starting meditation.
Ninety four percent of the group showed fewer airways resistance measurements, 55% showed improvement as reported by their personal physicians and 74% stated they themselves felt an improvement.

6) Meditation stimulates hormones and keeps you young.
Meditation stimulates our glands to produce more hormones. It also reduces the production of the body’s stress hormones.
Studies show that hormone levels in meditators are similar to those in people up to ten years younger. This is one of the reasons why meditators look and feel younger.

7) Meditation assists Health Problems
Up to 70% of health problems are psychosomatic, that is, they have a mental origin, so it is easy to understand how the awareness and control over our thoughts that meditation brings can help many of these disorders.
8) Meditation allows you to be alert yet at rest
It is the unique combination of deep relaxation and yet increased alertness that differentiates meditation from other relaxation techniques and sleep. It is referred to as the meditative state of consciousness or the super-conscious state. It indicates the emergence of the Higher Consciousness.
9) Meditation optimises Brain Function
Reports published in the International Journal of Neuroscience claim that higher levels of EEG coherence measured during the practice of meditation are significantly correlated with increased fluency of verbal creativity, increased efficiency in learning new concepts, more principled moral reasoning, higher verbal IQ, decreased neuroticism, clearer experiences of transcendental consciousness and increased neurological efficiency.

The above are just some of the benefits that meditation brings into your life. The meditation habit is one worth developing and results in a life of alert and joyful tranquillity. It is the best investment you can make in yourself. Please visit SoulCentre Singapore or our website www.soulcentre.org for Meditation Courses in Singapore.