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Believe it or not, but we leave in the mad world where everything is not like it was a just a couple of centuries ago. Our previous generations breathed in fresh air, enjoyed clear 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 crazy lives! We consume dirty water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our stomachs with junk food, breathe in polluted air and hear constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous tension, it is absolutely unbearable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry on a twenty-four hour basis, we are overworked and downtrodden 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 main part of people realize the fact when they fall seriously ill. Don’t join them! Think ahead and try entirely safe and highly effective practice known for centuries - meditation.

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

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the most important task is to suspend the normal whirl of thoughts filling the mind. There are all kinds and types of meditation. Maybe you will be amazed to hear that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of concentration 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 does no fail to forget that men and women have more than a mere sick body. Meditation views men and women as unique creatures having an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers know for sure that you cannot be healthy and pleased with your life if your brain is full of spite, anger and hopelessness. The shocking fact is that more and more usual doctors prescribe their patients meditation as a way of managing definite health problems. With meditation you can:

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

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

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

1. Focus 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. Focus on your body - keep your attention on the feelings in your body: 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 believe that you should always sit during meditation. It is OK 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 rather old. All up-to-date meditative approaches are the result of years and years of work and mental experiments of people around the world. The healing power of mediation has been known and practiced for thousands of years. Its cornerstone is tradition and religion; its effect is health and inner harmony! To tell you the truth, all religious groups turn to meditation in one form or another.

No doubts 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 apply the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for seing reality as it is. Buddha followers guess that our usual state of mind is very narrow - it is both limited and limiting. Meditation broadens human horizons and makes it possible to reveal our conscious and unconscious possibilities entirely.

The sad fact is that in spite of its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been wrongly ignored by the representatives of conventional medicine and only during the past thirty years the medical science concentrated on the studies of clinical effects of meditation on health. The 1960s started with amazing 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 started! The pompous scientific world was deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that unbelievable things are possible! Now health care professionals specializing in stress-related disorders had a unique way of treatment without ruinous side effects typical for drug treatments - it was the art of meditation! It proved to be a valuable tool for stress reduction, and what is more, persons and physicians enjoyed both the process of healing meditation and the health benefits available with regular trainings!

But the biggest 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, decreased pulse rate, decreased concentration of cortisol in your blood (it is a major stress hormone) and high activity of the part of your brain responsible for rest and relaxation! Famous MD R. Keith Wallace researching Transcendental Meditation revealed that during meditation the body gains 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 believe that our emotions are governed by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot control your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and burns your life energy and clouds 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 think that when you sit motionless doing nothing and thinking of nothing, i.e. when you are meditating your Fire and Water are in harmony. 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 probably one of the safest activities possible. It is great for people of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in people 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 issue, please, see your mental health practitioner before starting the practice of meditation.

One more important point - if you take medicines on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The point is meditation cannot give you stable relief at once - in requires some time to work! If you cannot bear queuing up in the waiting room of your physician to get your prescription, find a reliable online drugstore online where you can purchase medications no rx needed legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your trusted guide.