Importance of Meditation -Why our Ancestors performs Meditation?

THE POWER OF MEDITATION

Meditation has been practiced in the world since 1500 BC. The earliest records of meditation (Dhyana) come from the Hindu traditions of Vedantism. Meditation has a great impact on our ancestors. Practicing Meditation can reduce mental stress, anxiety, depression, etc. It helps to increase concentration, peace of mind, attention, well-being and other psychological elements.

“Meditation is a simple technique to achieve attention, awareness and emotionally calm and stable state of mind by various methods like focusing on an object, thought or repetition of holy name or mantra.”

Meditation is performed by almost each and every successful person. Meditation clarifies various aspects that are running into our mind. We find the solution of many problems while meditation. Achievement of goals requires focus, efforts, smart-work, determination and patience which are achieved by performing meditation. Patnajali, the original teacher of yoga said, “Meditation is uninterrupted thinking of one’s thought.” Spiritual teachers from different religious traditions, philosophical orientations and cultures prescribe different meditation techniques. There are hundreds of specific meditations.

Swami Vivekananda said, “Meditation is the focusing of mind on some object. If the mind acquires concentration on one object, it can concentrate on any object whatsoever.” One general type of meditation is to witness the workings of the mind without trying to suppress or direct thoughts that arise. Witnessing one’s thoughts, one feels disidentified with the mind and identified with the witness self, the spiritual reality. Sri Ramakrishna used to say that the mind is like a naughty child, if you look at its intensity, it feels shy, as it were and begins to behave. Another type of meditation is to think excellent, innovative thoughts. The mind has to be made steady by two means; First, go to a quiet place, make the mind free from waves and meditate. Second, develop the mind by thinking excellent thoughts. The mind will act exactly how you feed it. The food for the mind is meditation.

Your mind must be capable to discriminate between the real and the unreal. Youth, beauty, wealth, prestige never lost. The Holy Mother said: “Discriminate between the real and the unreal. Whenever you find the mind drawn to any object, think of it and try to draw the mind back to the thought of God.”

Some Advantages of Meditation

1} Meditation can give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can benefit both your emotional and physical health.

2} Meditation reduces stress.

3} Meditation can help you to carry out some hectic situations very firmly.

4} Meditation helps us to concentrate on one thing.

5} Meditation keeps one focused.

6} Meditation increases imagination power and creativity level.

7} Meditation increases patience and tolerance.

8} Meditation has some medicinal advantages too. Some research suggests that meditation may help people manage symptoms of conditions such as anxiety, asthma, cancer, chronic   pain, depression, heart disease, high BP, irritable bowel syndrome, sleep problems, tensions, headaches, etc.

9} Meditation enhances self-awareness.

10} Meditation is highly recommended for students. Meditation increases memory power and enhances attention. To keep attention on a certain topic for a longer time meditation is must. Students who meditate encounter great advantages in studies.

11} Meditation enriches our thinking capacity.

12} It inculcates positive thoughts in our minds. Our mind gets more active and responsive.

13} Meditation helps fight against addictions like drugs, alcohol. It also improves the quality of sleep.

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