What Is Meditation, Types & It’s Benefits

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What Is Meditation

Meditation is a praxis in which a human deliberately spends time with his mind. In meditation, people learn to pay attention to the breath as it goes in and out and also observe when the mind wanders from this practice. This exercise which returns to breathing builds the muscle of attention and awareness. Researchers say the more we do meditation more we will get the benefit and we will get to spend time with our minds.

Meditation has been practised for thousands of years. Meditation was originally intended to help us understand more deeply the sacred and profound life force. Today, meditation is often used to relax and reduce stress. Meditation is a type of mind-body complementary medicine. It can produce a deep state of relaxation.

Benefits Of Meditation

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Meditation can give any human to calm, a peaceful and balanced mind that can be benefitted for human well-being and health. It gives the mind to relax and cope with stress by focusing attention on something. The popularity of meditation is growing as more people become aware of its many health benefits. Meditation can be used to increase awareness of humans and the environment. Most people see it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.

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There are some benefits of doing meditation:

1. Meditation reduces stress:

These days people are suffering from stress for many reasons. They want peace and calm. Hence they try to reduce their stress through meditation. Hormone Cartisole that responsible for increasing stress in humans. This hormone releases inflammatory chemical cytokines and harmful effects of stress produces in the human body. These effects are the cause of disrupted sleep, increased blood pressure, anxiety, depression and fatigue. Mindfulness meditation helps to reduce the inflammatory response caused by stress.

2. Controls Anxiety:

Meditation is a perfect anti-anxiety treatment. A meta-analysis of 1300 people found that their anxiety had reduced with the help of meditation. A study revealed that with the practice of mindfulness meditation anxiety can be controlled. Mindfulness meditation has helped some people who were suffering from a generalised anxiety disorder.

3. Lower Blood Pressure

High blood pressure affects human health and due to high blood pressure, there is a risk of heart attack and stroke. According to researchers meditation can lower blood pressure even if there is no need for medication.

4. Enhance Serotonin Level

Serotonin is a chemical compound found in nerve cells. It works as a mood stabilizer. After doing meditation serotonin levels will increase and depression will increase. In shorts, it is an anti-depressant.

5. Breaks bad habit

Meditation helps to stop bad habits like smoking. It brings awareness to human action at that moment and also helps to break the cycle of bad habits.

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6. Helps with Brain Fog

Brain fog is a term that is used to describe slow or sluggish thinking. If any person lacks concentration power and forgets things easily, in that case people may suffer from brain fog. It is usually caused by stress and meditation helps to reduce this order.

7. Easy to handle anger:

Anger is the natural feeling of human nature. Sometimes humans cannot control their anger and work gets disturbed. To control getting angry, one should meditate. Meditating helps to focus on the current situation.

8. Boost the immune system:

Meditation also helps to boost the immune system by lowering blood pressure.

9. Improves health:

Meditation helps to improve health. By practising meditation metabolism of any person can improve. It also helps to improve digestion.

10. Meditation releases endorphins:

Meditation releases endorphins and lowers the level of cortisol, thus through this man can be happy and energetic.

Types Of Meditation

These are the types of meditation:

1. Mindfulness meditation
2. Spiritual meditation
3. Movement meditation
4. Mantra meditation/Chanting meditation
5. Progressive relaxation/Body Scan meditation
6. Visualization meditation/Guided meditation
7. Transcendental meditation
8. Loving Kindness meditation
9. Focused meditation
10. Chakra meditation
11. Yoga meditation

Frequently Asked Questions

Que: What are the five stages of meditation?
Ans: There are five stages of meditation:

1. Awareness of the present moment
2. Dawning awareness
3. Unwavering Commitment
4. Mindfulness of the meditation object
5. Subduing the negative mind

Que: What is the key to meditation?
Ans: Pay attention to the breath and focus on the body movement with each inhalation and exhalation.

Que: Can any person meditate in any position?
Ans: Just sit back and relax and take a deep breath, where you are, meditation can be done any time, anywhere and for any length of time.

Que: Which direction should we meditate in?
Ans: Best direction for the meditation is east or northeast. The northeast corner is known as Ishan (the corner for Ishwar or God).

Conclusion:

It has been scientifically proved that meditation has many benefits for both physical and mental health and wellbeing. Meditation is described in the ancient Vedic, it is an exercise of consciousness. It results in the expansion of consciousness beyond the day-to-day experience of duality. Meditation reduces stress, anxiety, insomnia, hypertension, concentration etc and brings happiness into life.

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