Meditation

'd like to share a few of the fantastic benefits that I've experienced with meditation in the hopes that maybe you could experience them too. 1. Meditation helps you foster inner peace. As we leave our homes or belongings untidy and unmaintained for prolonged periods of time, they become dirty, grimy, dusty, and aren't very pleasant to look at or be around. Now, imagine your body as an untidy room or belonging. Instead of dirt, grime, and clutter, however, you experience anxiety, stress, depression, and negative thoughts. We can pick these up from all sorts of locations, including things we see on TV or on the news, from people at work, from friends and family members, from stressful situations, and just about everywhere else in the world today. Rather than stewing over these situations, surroundings, and people, meditation teaches us to simply release the negativity. It won't remove those feelings, but it does give us tools to be able to cope with them in a more effective way. The little things, even the larger things, don't bother us as much, so we can remain positive, happy, tranquil, and peaceful within our self. 2. Meditation helps you find more perfect moments. Rather than reacting to people and situations, you instead find yourself observing the world that is happening around you. Before meditation, I would focus on the negative energy and allow it to overwhelm me. Thanks to meditation, I discovered something amazing: that there is perfection everywhere around us. Instead of focusing on the negative, I found myself searching for the positive perfection in each moment. The faint smile from a stranger, the taste of my favorite meal, or even just the comfort of spending a few moments in quiet solitude all became more important to me once I could release the negative energy. 3. Meditation helps improve your concentration. One great benefit of meditation is that it helps you vastly improve your concentration levels, which in turn will help make you far more productive. When you meditate, you clear your mind of distractions and instead focus on the act of mediating itself. Then after meditation, you're better able to focus on what's right in front of you instead of getting caught up in your thoughts, fears, and worries. Meditation helps to awaken forgiveness. Another great benefit of meditation is that it helps us let go of anger more easily so we can forgive and forget. When I was working abroad I fell ill and had to go back home earlier than I planned, so I took my payment and left. What I didn't realize was that I was entitled to a bonus for my work. It wasn't much money, but still, it was something. A few months later, I found out from a co-worker that "my good friend" had collected my bonus from my boss and did not give it to me when he came back home. I was angry and disappointed, especially since we've known each other since kindergarten and I trusted him. It was months before I started talking to him again. I'm not 100 percent sure how I would react to something like this today, but I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't keep my anger bottled up inside of me, as it is self-destructive. With the peace I've fostered today, it likely would be far easier to let go. Concentration, meditation and absorption together form self-control. Self-control on specific supernatural power brings that power into expression. Some people are born with some special supernatural abilities like: Remembering the previous birth, X-ray Vision, Foretell and other extra super powers. There are different ways to meditate, and since it's such a personal practice there are probably more than any of us know about. There are a couple that are usually focused on heavily in scientific research, though. These are focused-attention, or mindful meditation, which is where you focus on one specific thing-it could be your breathing, a sensation in your body or a particular object outside of you.