Mystic Meditation Therapy

Meditate Your Way to Inner Peace 

Just like the wind, we cannot touch or see stress but only feel its impact and presence in our mind and body. Stress and anxiety have become a part of our daily life just like happiness and joy. They are enemies to our mental health and affect the well-being of millions of people living in this universe, causing irreversible changes to long-term health. Meditation is the practice of using our mind to focus on a particular object, thought or activity to achieve mental and emotional clarity. Practiced since prehistoric ages, meditation is followed and preached with the main aim of reducing stress, anxiety and depression, and increasing peace and happiness in a person. But now, there are various ongoing researches to analyze its effects on psychological, neurological and cardiovascular health.

Let Go of Stress & Develop Peace

Many illnesses right from high blood pressure to heart attacks involve stress and reducing stress is the key benefit of meditating. Stress is a major contributor to many of our modern-day ailments and illnesses. Researchers are trying their luck on testing whether a single hour of meditation can counter the ill effects of stress and anxiety. This study proved to be positive and results support the fact that just one session can lower anxiety and increase heart health. Earlier studies supported the positive impact on anxiety levels after a few weeks of meditation and further studies are needed to strongly prove that even one meditation session can have a positive impact on health.

Each of us experience and react to stress in different ways. When stress surpasses acceptable levels, the person starts experiencing high blood pressure, excess cholesterol, physical inactivity and overeating, all of which are indicators of heart disease and stroke. Mindful meditation helps not only to relieve stress and anxiety but also other conditions and ailments that occur as an outcome of chronic stress. Meditation can relieve pain, boost immunity, reduce inflammation, increase grey matter in the brain, build focus and concentration, reduce loneliness and even increase willpower. One of the world’s most reputed organization, the American Heart Association (AHA) suggests that even though there is no definite association between meditation and heart health, there are voluminous evidences from recent researchers supporting this ideology. While meditation might help alleviate heart risk, they can never become a substitute for physical exercise. All the while, practicing meditation does not harm your body even when its benefits on heart health remains unproved. Any person trying to increase his/her heart health must ensure to quit smoking, restrict alcohol, exercise regularly, maintain blood pressure levels and lead a healthy lifestyle as advised by the physician. Anyone interested in pursuing meditation must do it only after ensuring that he/she follows all these factors that reduce risk of heart disease. To maintain a healthy lifestyle and stay on a healthy weight, get in touch with reputed nutritionists/dietitians at www.firsteatright.com.

Choose Your Preferred Meditation Style

Meditation is said to be effective via the sympathetic nervous system which increases heart rate, breathing and blood pressure during stress. There are different types of meditation including:

Concentration meditation: The foundation for other forms of meditation, this form teaches you how to focus your mind.

Mindful meditation: This type insists that you concentrate on your negative thoughts as they keep occurring in your mind to help you achieve a state of calm.

Heart-centric meditation: Heart is the lifeline of humans and making your heart aware of your mind’s calm state with meditation can have positive effects on the body.

Tai chi/qigong: Known as moving forms of meditation, they combine physical exercise, breathing and focus to achieve calmness and inner peace.

Transcendental meditation: This is a famous technique where the follower is preached to repeat a mantra given by the instructor to bring serenity, think clearer and be aware of his/her inner self. The mantra might be a word, phrase or sound.

Walking meditation: This is a two-in-one form as you focus on both, mind and body as you breathe in time with your footsteps.

Some general tips that can help you reap maximum benefits of meditation include:

• Group meditations can prove to be a powerful experience
• All you need to meditate is a quiet space and your dedicated time. Start with 10 minutes a day and try meditating at the same time every morning
• Use a dedicated space to meditate. This will set you in meditation mood immediately once you sit down. Adorn this space with fresh flowers, incense sticks, fragrant candles, photos or any object that helps you focus
•  Sit either on a chair or floor as per your convenience. Close your eyes or focus your view on the object present
• Breathe slowly and deeply

     Within a week of meditation, you start noticing a change in your mood and stress level. People feel inner peace and serenity with continuous practise even when the world around them is frantically affected by chaos and anxiety!