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The Benefits of Meditation

Every spiritual path emphasizes meditation. Like sleeping and dreaming, which are necessary for life and well-being, meditation is also an essential state of consciousness every human being must experience on a regular basis. The most basic form of meditation is an altered state of consciousness in which we produce more alpha waves than beta waves. This is a state of deep relaxation. This occurs naturally in children, and in adults when we allow ourselves to stop our frenetic mental and physical activity.

Some of the many benefits of meditation include the following:

Physically

• Deep relaxation
• Automatic self healing of the body
• Reduction of depression and anxiety
• Brain processing of experiences to reduce overwhelm
• Stress release
• Increase of serotonin production which positively affects mood and behaviour
• Strengthening of the immune system
• Increase in activity of specific cells that kill bacteria and cancer cells
• Reduction of viruses
• Increased brain wave coherence which produces a variety of beneficial conditions such as greater creativity and improved moral reasoning and possible higher IQ

Emotionally

• Quieting the unconscious reactionary emotions
• Building self confidence and self esteem
• Increased feelings of contentment and peace
• Increased feelings of connection to others
• Increased emotional stability

Mentally

• Improvement of concentration and attention
• Improvement of short term memory and learning potential
• Clearer and sharper thought processes
• Increase of self understanding
• Reduction of preoccupation with the past and the future, enabling one to be much more in the present
• Strengthening of ability to control thoughts and emotions

Spiritually

• Making soul connection – experiencing beauty, truth and goodness
• Experiencing soul qualities such as patience, tolerance, acceptance, compassion, etc.
• Greater self regulation and authenticity
• Insights
• Intuition
• Unity

Meditation Focus

The focus in meditation can be anything you choose, depending on your intention. For example, it can be a question for which you are seeking soul guidance or deeper understanding. Or it could be simply a soul quality so that you can experience energies behind expressions and within things and people. This will enable you to identify with soul more readily. Through meditation you learn the energies of soul through direct experience of its qualities. You then integrate those energies little by little into your thinking, feeling and acting, thereby progressively activating the soul and becoming soul.

 

Resources

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