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Table of Contents
Meditation in Action
Daily Meditations
Book 1: The Daily Meditation Ritual Lifestyle
Book 2: Zen Is Like You
Best Yoga For Beginners Book Set
Book 1 My Favorite Yoga Quote
Book 2 Why Meditation Poems?
Meditation in Action: Learning the Art of Inner Peace
Restore Calm and Free Your Mind with Meditation Techniques
By: John Yates
Chapter 1- What Is Meditation- A Brief History?
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. How do you feel? Chances are you will be focusing on something that you do on a daily basis. Now do it again, only this time, focus all of your energy on your breath. As you begin to focus on your breathing, what do you notice? Your breathing gets deeper the more you concentrate on the act of inhaling and exhaling. This is the first step to meditation.
What is Meditation?
Meditation is the process in which you guide your mind and body into a place of relaxation. People use meditation for a variety of reasons including relaxation, spiritual purposes, and intellectual growth. Meditation is not about concentrating on relaxation, it is the process of awakening your body to a relaxed state of mind. There are varying opinions of the purpose of meditation; while some people meditate by focusing on an idea or subject, others imagine a state of satisfaction or contentment. Both of these reasons for meditating have one common goal.
Meditation is about slowing down the mind as well as the activity of the body. When the mind reaches a particular state of awareness, one is said to have reached a meditative state. One who is practiced in meditation can even achieve a meditative state during an extremely period during the day. Meditation can be defined as a quiet moment in an alert mind. However, this is only the beginning of true meditation. Once someone reaches their highest level of awareness, this is when their full potential can be met.
Many researchers believe meditation can be the greatest solution to relieving stress. Still gaining popularity in West, meditation has been cultivated by Eastern cultures for thousands of years. Eastern cultures have refined meditation to be a technique by aligning mind, body and spirit. Similar methods are now being adapted by Western clinicians and health professionals. Mental health physicians are beginning to notice a difference in patients' behaviors when they try meditation. In a recent study, participants who used meditation reported a better of quality of life, and also had less clinic visits per year.
A Brief History of Meditation
The history of meditation dates back to the ancient times, nearly 5000 years ago. The ancient hunters and gatherers are believed to be the first people to discover meditation by staring into the flames of their campfires. Meditation has evolved throughout thousands of years into the popular form we know today. Some of the earliest forms of meditation can be found in the written records of the Hindus, originating around 1500 BCE.
Considered by some to be the biggest contributor to meditation history, Buddha has been used as the symbol of meditation since 500 B.C. Meditation is believed to have gotten its start in the Asian continent, while other countries caught on later. Each country developed different forms and techniques of practicing meditation. Buddhist and Hindu are two of the most common meditation practices performed today.
As Japanese Buddhism grew in popularity in the 8th century, an interest in meditation began to develop with the people of Japan. It is believed that a Japanese monk who visited China brought his knowledge of meditation that he acquired back home to Japan. As Japan saw a rapid growth in the interest of meditation, people began to modify it to fit individual beliefs and thought processes.
After thousands of years, meditation was introduced to the Western societies. Meditation did not even gain its popularity in the West until the mid-20th century. Sometime during the mid 1960's, researchers began testing the effects of meditation.
The Jewish people had a strong impact on changing the way meditation was done in the Middle Ages and some techniques are still practiced today. This is now referred to as Kabbalistic practices which involve the use of prayer and study. Jewish meditation involves the use of many visualization and spiritual methods, as well as forms of emotional insights.
It was during the Middle Ages that meditation was first used by the Christian faith. In combination with vocal prayer and meditative practices, Christian meditation practices involved the repetition of bible prayer. Around the start of the 19th century, a number of books and articles on meditation started to hit the Western market.
Once a religious technique, meditation has long since been known to help people maintain an emotional balance between mental and physical awareness. It has been used to treat many illnesses including depression, stress, and anxiety. Some people achieve such a sense of relaxation comparable to a good nap. The deep state of relaxation that a meditating person achieves can reduce his or her levels of stress and enables that person to make better decisions. Many people who have meditated report having higher levels of self esteem.
Meditation has been used to help people quit smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, and eliminate drug addictions. Meditation can reduce a person's blood pressure and greatly lower the symptoms of abdominal cramps caused by menopause or chronic pelvic problems. A person who meditates will have a lower heart rate and blood pressure. The process of slowing the breathing down lowers the oxygen needed for the body, and relaxes the muscles.
The history of meditation is rich, going back thousands of years to ancient times. Meditation has been used for spiritual, emotional, and physical relaxation. No matter what your reason for meditating, you too can enjoy the benefits of meditation.
Chapter 2- The Long Term Benefits of Meditation
Life is demanding and the age of the person doesn’t seem to matter. The hectic hustle and bustle of managing day-to-day life is stressful and comes with many problems. People who practice meditation experience many positive long-term effects associated with the practice of using meditation.
Improved thought and cognitive function is one of the many long-term benefits of meditation. The human body will eventually shut down for its recuperative processes, and most people recognize the need for this phase. Perhaps it’s a lack of knowledge, or maybe the individual feels incapable of letting intrusive thoughts go. Regardless of the reason, the brain needs to reboot, yet this is often neglected. Meditation enables one to consciously choose where he or she will focus thoughts instead of following whatever thought or worry that pops into the mind. Someone then learns to choose what, when, and how he or she chooses to think. This makes the person more productive in the long run and more effective as a thinker.
When problem solving, it is not uncommon for individuals to get stuck on the same solution or similar variants of the same solution. Meditation helps thinking develop to the extent that people are more capable and more willing to let go of using the same solution expecting different resolutions.
This has implications for situations where this faulty thinking tends to occur such as relationship problems, job problems, and weight loss problems.
Meditation can increase a person's ability to feel sensitivity and compassion for others, so in contentious relationships that often end in failure, the individuals involved could be more open and understanding of the other party. Bosses and employees that practice meditation will also be able to forge better relationships with each other. Parents and children, brothers and sisters, and spouses would all be more in tune with positive communication and positive outcomes for relationships. An individual’s ability to identify positive thinking and actions within oneself would make for more productive life choices.
Meditation has positive long-term effects in other areas of life as well. One of these areas is the emotional wellness of individuals. When people experience emotions such as anger, depression, and anxiety, specific regions in their brains become highly active. Meditation teaches people how to control thinking as a means of controlling these negative emotions, and when this happens, the part of the brain that controls positive emotions becomes more active. Positivity breeds more positivity. This could have implications on the use of medication as a means of controlling anger, depression, and anxiety. When an individual can harness one’s own mind and energy to control such issues it eliminates the side effects that many of these medication have on people, and it provides a sense of control over the situation.
Meditation also affects health challenges associated with stress and negative emotions. Stress has a tendency to increase the complications associated with some types of cancer, as well as high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. The ability to harness one’s thinking would enable people to manage the negativity that affects these conditions. Imagine the empowerment meditation provides when people use it in conjunction with medication.
Frequently, individuals who are particularly prone to high-blood pressure find it difficult to manage with diet and exercise alone, or perhaps these elements, when used with medication are not completely effective. They could use meditation to help control their health. Cancer patients could use meditation to help control the pain and nausea that comes along with cancer treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy. In addition, there is some evidence meditation can ease the residual pain associated with a lot of illness; it can also make other medical issues seem less severe.
Evidence also supports the thought that meditation can boost immunity. Improved immunity could have significant impact in several areas. This could mean the use of vaccines, to control illnesses such as influenza and pneumonia, would be more effective. It could also have an impact on the control of immune problems associated with AIDS or cancer treatment.
Meditation has also been associated with the long-term effects related to women’s issues like premenstrual syndrome, infertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding. It can even affect a woman's sex life. Ask most women and they will probably tell you that their sex lives have sometimes been affected by negative thoughts and feelings about their looks, their weight, or even their ability to perform. Am I attractive enough? Am I too thin? Am I too heavy? Am I good enough?
These are all questions that crop up during the moment, making sex less enjoyable for the woman. Meditation teaches people to control the way they