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You can think of it or not, but we leave in the insane world where everything is not like it was a just a couple of centuries ago. Our forefathers breathed in fresh air, enjoyed pure water and grew natural food. What do we have today? Having the same physiology as it was 4 or 5 generations ago modern humans lead mad lives! We consume dirty water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our bellies with harmful food, breathe in awful air and live in constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous tension, it is absolutely insufferable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry round the clock, we are overworked and stressed in our family lives, we don’t have enough rest and sleep to do extra work and make our carriers. We never realize the fact that our body needs some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head needs some rest, too. Unfortunately, the majority of individuals realize this simple truth when they fall seriously ill. Don’t join them! Think ahead and turn to totally safe and highly effective practice known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it occur to you that personalities who meditate on a regular basis are more content with their lives, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather common today, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the major task is to slow down the normal stream of thoughts occupying the mind. There are all kinds and types of meditation. Maybe you will be surprised to learn that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of focusing natural for all believers there are Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness meditation, Zen meditation, Buddhist meditation and Taoist meditation.

Meditation is the realm of alternative medicine that unlike usual medicine it never forgets that people have more than a mere ailing body. Meditation views persons as unique creatures having an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers understand that you cannot be healthy and happy with your life if your head is full of hatred, anger and hopelessness. The amazing fact is that more and more traditional doctors prescribe their patients meditation as a way of managing a number of health troubles. With meditation you can:

- lower your blood pressure;
- improve the general state of people with angina including their exercise performance;
- let individuals with asthma breathe freely;
- forget about insomnia;
- relax after everyday disastrous day of life.

Meditation is a natural activity for every human, that is why it is up to you to decide where you will practice meditation. Some people prefer to master meditation at home. It is very simple with all the instructional books and audio CDs available. Others choose to find a good teacher.

With all its simplicity meditation can offer you a number of options. There are several approaches to meditation. Here are some prompts for you how to meditate.

1. Concentrate on your breath - keep your attention on the feeling of the stream of air passes in and out of your nostrils. This is so called “mindfulness meditation” - the meditator should learn to be “mindful”, i.e. aware of the present moment of time, but his or her consciousness should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Concentrate on your body - keep your attention on the sensations in your organism: pain, warmth, discomfort, tension etc.

3. Concentrate on any word or phrase you like - keeping your attention on a word or phrase is called a “mantra”. Its general task is to keep your head free of any dangerous thoughts.

It is wrong to think that you should always sit during meditation. It is possible to lie down, to stand or even to have a strall. If for some reason sitting still is difficult for you, feel free to combine meditation with other practices such as yoga or tai chi - you will get double pleasure and positive effect!

The use of meditation for healing human body and soul is not new. All contemporary meditative approaches are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of people around the world. The healing power of mediation has been known and applied for thousands of years. Its cornerstone is tradition and religion; its effect is health and inner harmony! Actually, all religious groups apply meditation in one form or another.

It is doubtless that of all the religions Buddhism is a “father of meditation” - it is the best known and the most practiced kind of meditation in the world. Buddhists use the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for perceiving reality as it is. Buddha followers believe that our usual consciousness is very narrow - it is both limited and limiting. Meditation broadens human horizons and makes it possible to reveal our conscious and unconscious possibilities in full measure.

The sad fact is that despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been undeservedly ignored by the representatives of official medicine and only during the past three decades the medical science concentrated on the studies of clinical effects of meditation on health. The 1960s started with shocking medical reports of yogis and meditation masters from the mysterious East who could show extraordinary bodily control and could consciously stay in altered states of their minds - and this is where studies of self-regulation and voluntary control over the autonomic nervous system launched! The pompous scientific world was shaken when refined scientific instrumentation proved that incredible things exist! Now doctors specializing in stress-related disorders had a unique way of treatment without awful side effects typical for drug treatments - it was the art of meditation! It proved to be a valuable means for stress reduction, and what is more, individuals and physicians enjoyed both the process of healing meditation and the health benefits available with regular trainings!

But the greatest surprise was still to come! After some time of scientific research of meditation this activity turned out to be perfect not solely for changing the brain’s function in the short term. The medical facts demonstrated that regular practice of meditation has a miraculous long-term positive effect! So, Transcendental Meditation in particular guarantees you a blissful state of relaxation including decreased heart and perspiration rates, low pulse rate, low concentration of cortisol in your blood (it is a major stress hormone) and increased activity of the part of your brain responsible for rest and relaxation! Famous practitioner R. Keith Wallace investigating Transcendental Meditation found out that during meditation the body gets the most profound rest possible. Paradoxically, your brain and mind become clear and more alert - your reactions are faster, your creativity and efficiency is greater and your view of the world is broader!

In contrast to Transcendental Meditation, Taoists consider that our emotions are governed by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot keep your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and burns your life energy and confuses your mind. But you can manage that! Your willpower, on the contrary, is controlled by the Water energy located in your kidneys. If you do not control this energy, it flows down through your sexual organs, weakening your spirit and dissipating your life. So, Taoists believe that when you sit motionless doing nothing and thinking of nothing, i.e. when you are meditating your Fire and Water are well balanced. Water energy from the kidneys goes up to your head via the Central and Governing channels. At the same time Fire energy from the heart goes down into the Lower Elixir Field in the abdomen. By means of this right circulation of two energies and by means of this mental alchemy in the body your mind becomes calmer, cooler and more controllable, while your sexual energy becomes really enjoyable!

Meditation is obviously one of the safest activities possible. It is wonderful for people of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in persons with bad psychiatric cases, there have been a few reports in which regular meditation has worsened the state of their mental health. If you have a psychiatric case, please, talk to your mental health practitioner before starting the practice of meditation.

One more necessary point - if you take pills on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The fact is meditation cannot give you stable relief at once - in needs some time to work! If you cannot stand queuing up in the waiting room of your MD to get your prescription, find a trusted online pharmacy online where you can order prescription drugs no rx required legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your trusted guide.

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