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Considering the fact of popularity about meditation these days, meditation has now started being used as a way to lessen stress and overcome negative thinking, and emotional instability. Apart from that we can use meditation as a weapon to build our concentration, cognitive response towards situations, and deepen sleep, studies show that meditation can actually modify the neural pathways in the brain. Relaxing the sympathetic nervous system gets you out of 'fight or flight' mode to 'rest and digest mode by activating the parasympathetic nervous system.
Before discussing what changes meditation does to you first understand what is meditation.
What is meditation?
When we say someone is meditative we are not just referring to the action of sitting down with closed eyes, because meditation is not an activity it's a quality, quality of being focused and concentrated. Focus and concentration is not physical thing that you might have some time and not have at another moment. Meditation is not concerned with focusing on SOMETHING rather it is interested in the energy of ATTENTION itself. power of Being able to focus on whatever you desire intentionally is provided by meditation. The very essence of meditation is awareness and the quality of each experience that we have is determined by the level of awareness we have at that moment. Meditation helps uplift the quality of experience by catalyzing our awareness of the moment, the more we are aware the better we interpret life experience, the better we learn, and the better we grow through that learning by seeing WHAT is WHAT.
What does meditation do to you?
There are 3 major areas where meditation brings life-changing modifications
Body -brain
Mind - emotions
Spirit-psychological
Meditation modifies neural networks in the brain
The practice of mindfulness meditation has shown changes in the neural pathways of one's brain .neural pathways are created by responding to a certain situation in a particular way wiring two neurons in a particular, next time when the same situation will arise the wired neurons will fire together making us behave in the same manner as before and again wire together making that network even stronger than before, which increases the chance of behaving same way next more vigorously and so on. activation of the parasympathetic helps in better and balanced glandular secretion creating divine health within the body.
In the Practice of meditation, we learn to watch those responses by not acting on them or acting in another hence weakening the previous pathways and creating new pathways of healthy behavior. increasing our ability to be calm a
In tough situations and responding effectively helps us get out of difficult scenes. meditation assists in creating new habits too.
Better able to handle emotions
We can not act effectively in circumstances by being emotionally charged. To see things better we sometimes need to get out our emotions to have a broad spectrum and take the right decision. This decision can be as small as waking up early in the morning shutting up chat of mind wanting to sleep more or it can be a major decision like choosing the right partner for you.
Mindfulness of emotions aids us in better understanding our emotions, sometimes overwhelming emotions like anger, hate, rage, deep loneliness even depression. The knowledge which goes along with meditation benefits changing emotions by reversing our world views which may be falsely filled in our minds by those around us during childhood.
Meditation therapy also helps in a release from traumas.
In activating the parasympathetic nervous system ( rest and digest) mode we can better digest life experiences and evolve for the better because every experience is teaching us something, its learning will make us able to take reasonable decisions now and in the future.
Meditation is a doorway to spirituality
Meditation is a practice used by the spiritual community to connect with the higher self within us. whatever be the reason for you starting a meditation practice, be it concentration, health, or desire to be young.
Meditation practice organizes your system in a certain way over a period that you automatically feel tilted towards knowing something higher than you and this world of drama, it can happen by some meditative information or an experience in meditation that shocked you and embarked the search for what was that. By now you are better able to assimilate spiritual knowledge which opens doors to various self-realization paths be it Vedanta, Buddhism, Jainism, etc.
Purity of mind is reached through meditation and God can manifest only in a pure mind, we must be thorough when saying 'pure mind', it's not about brahmacharya or zero thoughts or celibacy, it's about having positive and spiritual thoughts.
A pure mind is like a serene lake without a ripple where you can have a true reflection of yours, likewise, a pure mind reflects who you truly are, connecting you to your higher purpose here on earth. Brings on the ultimate goal of life according to all religions -MOKSHA
So now you know all the benefits of meditation it's time for implementation, knowing it will not help unless it's done. hence start practicing it to make it your own knowledge which will transform every experience you are having.here is a brief guide on how you can make meditation a DAILY HABIT as a begginner⤵️
11 effective ways to make meditation part of your daily habits
Have a divine meditative journey😊.
*Blessings till next read*
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