Friday, February 23, 2007

Meditation benefits into Your Body and Soul

I remember when I was entering into my yoga class way back gradeschool years, I got involved into meditation which is relaxing in many ways. It soothes your mind, heart and even soul. When you open your eyes you are so close to nature and even to yourself. What I like most about meditation is the zest of creativity it takes out from my head and I get to be ambitious in achieving your goals. This are all positive aspects of what meditation can really do unto you.

But aside from these, I found out the meditation thus really do with our health issue as it releases stress. In our hectic world, where people takes less attention in looking into their health increases many health problems such as heart attacks, obesity and changing of personality. Basically because some stress are not properly dispersed from out body and carried out the following day.

According to the study from Dr. Joan Borysenko who had made various books and writings that accounts meditation as a way to relieve stress, increases our immunity from diseases and defuses negative emotions. Which is a very positive effect of meditation. While it is so good to our body, still people doesn’t give time for this.

Here is a simple program that will lead you to just loving meditation more after you take simple steps to maintain meditation in your life.

When you wake, do not rush into the toilet as if your boss is watching over you and pushing you to work hard at the time you open you eyes. Take time at least 5 to 10 minutes to breathe in and breathe out. Do this for one week and increase the time period as you progress in meditating.

The most effective way is just by simply signing up for a meditation session. At least you will be given ideas of proper ways of meditating. But definitely meditation is just about pulling out stress from your tired day. And simple rituals such as breathing and stretching your body are ways of achieving effective meditation.

1 comment:

John said...

Nice post on meditation Christine, a topic (and practise) I like to write about on my own blog: A Sensitity to Things.