Practising meditation for 10 – 20 minutes once or twice a day improves health, stress, refreshes and revitalises mind and body. 

Practising meditation you are upgrading the human physiology in a natural way. There is no mind bending, no mind altering.  You will I promise look forward to doing it everyday.

Some of the benefits include clearer thinking, relaxed muscles, general all round stress relief, resulting in a much happier outlook on life.

As the mind and body settles and rests in meditation, which is a much deeper state than sleep, called by scientists “restructuring state”, in which the biochemical changes are opposite the “fight or flight” stress response. Breathing becomes shallower, heart rate slows, deep rooted stress tension and fatigue are dissolved, strengthening and restoring the Immune System (body’s own natural healing system) and the nervous system.

Within a few days you will report improvements in sleep, blood pressure, concentration, calmness, under-pressure and improved relationships and sex. Allowing you to recharge your batteries and resolve deep rooted stress, tension and fatigue from the whole system.  This in turn leaves you renewed ready to face the demands and pressures of every day life.

Meditation is enjoyable.  It is not a religion, philosophy or way of life. Ne beliefs are involved at all. You don’t even have to believe that it works! Nor do you have to give anything up.

Benefits of daily practice

• Improved relationships
• Stronger immune system
• Headaches and asthma
• Reversal of ageing
• Normalisation of blood pressure
• Relief from fatigue
• Sports Performance
• Reduced anxiety and depression
• Improved sleep
• Reduced use of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs
• Normalisation of weight

Meditation – what to do

Find a comfortable chair or place to sit. Finding the right place can be very important as it has to be somewhere quiet where you are not disturbed for 10 – 20 minutes.

Sit quietly, uncross your legs, close your eyes. Relax and breathe in through your nose and through your mouth.  Count your breaths. Count 1 for breathing in and 2 for breathing out. Continue to count up to 10. Then start over again at 1.  If you find yourself counting a number higher than 10 then go back to counting from 1.

Don’t think (your mind may be racing and thinking of all the other things that’s going on in your life), don’t worry if this happens, just go back to concentrating and counting your breaths, do this for 10 minutes once or twice a day to suit – increasing the time if you wish to 20 minutes each session as you feel it necessary.

Source of information: Rosie Hamilton-McGinty | www.awinningattitude.com