| Meditation is often visualized as an Eastern tradition | | | | chance to tap into your inner self and get in touch on |
| where the person sits in a circle surrounded by | | | | how it sees your life. Getting in touch with the inner self |
| candles and saying mantras or humming. Currently, | | | | will provide guidance towards our happiness and |
| meditation and its benefits are recognized throughout | | | | fulfillment. |
| the world It is far from what we had in mind before in | | | | There are religions which advocate the use of |
| every culture. Aside from the calming effect that it | | | | meditation to reach enlightenment. As mentioned, there |
| could bring, meditation is often said to be a path to | | | | are different schools of thoughts and focus that each |
| awaken the spirit and start the journey towards | | | | religion adapts. But the method or the technique used is |
| spiritual awakening. | | | | not as important with the underlying concept that |
| Meditation has different schools. Each school would | | | | behind meditation. |
| have its own thought about meditation. There are also | | | | Meditation is about listening to the inner self, therefore it |
| different techniques for meditation and it can also be | | | | has something to do with controlling your attention and |
| classified based on their focus. There are meditative | | | | focusing. There are too much distractions that it is very |
| techniques which focus on a field or a background | | | | hard for some to focus their attention into what it is |
| perception, while there are others which focus on a | | | | important and keeping the attention on fixed object. |
| specific object. | | | | When focused on a fixed object or field, |
| Meditation is used to calm the mind and relax the body. | | | | one-pointedness could be experienced and could take |
| Tension, stress and anxiety can be relieved by | | | | the person to a completely different state. This |
| performing simple techniques. Aside from the inner | | | | one-pointedness is not that easy to achieve though, |
| peace that meditation brings, it can also improve the | | | | there are some who would need to meditate for |
| body's total and general health. It is also a great way | | | | years to achieve it. |
| of improving your concentration. There are studies | | | | When one-pointedness is achieved, the person would |
| showing the relation between meditation and other | | | | experience bliss. Bliss is referred to as a natural state |
| concentration exercises with the performances of | | | | of the soul which cannot be experienced easily in daily |
| athletic and sport professionals. | | | | lives. During this meditative state, spirituality and also |
| Health benefits of meditation would include better | | | | the mind expands its consciousness and understanding |
| circulation, deeper level of relaxation, increase in | | | | of nature and the universe. Destructive thinking and |
| exercise tolerance among heart patients, regularizing | | | | behavior brought about by the materialistic and |
| blood pressure, reduces anxiety attacks and muscle | | | | fast-paced world can be flushed away by focusing |
| tension, helps against allergies, arthritis, and shows | | | | more on the your spirituality. |
| significant help for those who are recovering from | | | | A deeper understanding and knowledge would be felt |
| operation or surgery. | | | | and the body would be in one with the universe. This |
| With this concentration process, you get to listen to the | | | | they say would be what would link us to the Supreme |
| inner self and separate from the pressures of daily life. | | | | Being. Attaining this one-pointedness could somehow |
| Understanding the inner self would lead to | | | | be compared to a spiritual awakening, where the body |
| understanding of our higher self. This would increase | | | | and the mind can fully understand what cannot be |
| our knowledge and understanding how the higher self | | | | seen or touch in the material world. |
| unites with the universe. In meditation, you get the | | | | |