Physical, spiritual and emotional benefits of meditation have been well documented for thousands of years. Scientists, spiritualists, philosophers and religious leaders have heralded the power of meditation by witnessing awareness.
Deep reflection, mindfulness or Contemplation
Known as deep reflection, mindfulness, or contemplation, meditation allows you to drift into the space between your thoughts. Because meditation works on a subconscious level, if you do it for long enough, it begins to express itself through the subtle choices, you go on to make. The more you meditate, the more conscious your thoughts, decisions and daily actions become.
Meditation
Meditation gives you a deeper sense of calm, helping you to manage a broader perspective on your issues and therefore greater clarity, allowing you to tap into your more authentic self, where grace has a chance to become part of you. The emotional shift of meditation may be so subtle that you may not even see these meditation benefits straight away, but keep persevering.
Conclusion
Meditation can help you to achieve a greater alignment between what you think, what you say and how you behave. It helps you to slow down when the world turns at a faster pace. Meditation will also help you to re-evaluate how you live and what's important in your life. Over a period of weeks, even months you can begin to acquire a deeper understanding of yourself and how a spiritual path might work; a path where you’ll make new discoveries about yourself that you never knew existed.
Trying to meditate definitely proves that I have ADHD as I have a very hard time doing it. People claim that it's great for a lot of things, but most of the time I just end up falling asleep since I don't sleep very well as it is.
I guess that it has a lot to do with my PTSD, as it doesn't really allow me to normally relax when I'm hyper-vigilant.
What I usually end up doing is just focusing on remaining as calm as possible, to avoid my blood pressure getting any higher than it already is.
It's my own personal form of meditation, but I usually do it while I'm awake and alert, so it's more like an app just running in the background which works for me.
Thanks Randy. Yes, I too have only just learned why I can't mediate. Autism is the reason. Like you I end up falling asleep.
If meditation isn't for you and you've found another way to relax that works, I would say continue... go for it.
Focusing on remaining calm is excellent. Like you, I also need to focus on remaining calm, particularly when I'm dealing with anxiety.
But it's not something I remember to do.
I find meditating on the rosary helps me.
Thanks Carol. Yes, continue to do whatever works for you. I don't think there should be a set rule, it's what works and stick to the winning formula.
It's been proven and the facts speak for themselves, the more we meditate the calmer and more at peace we will be.
It's not difficult to look at what's going on around us to know that there isn't a lot of meditation going on.
Shutting off as a child, retreating into myself although it wasn't meditation, it did help me function better.
Although I still do it, my writing now helps with that.
I have never tried meditation, although for a while I did go to a relaxation class which I found enjoyable.
Life is hectic these days and although I have less time to relax than I once did, I probably need to find the time more importantly than ever.
I think you're right, more of us should. In such uncertain times it's important we take time out to relax, if we can't meditate.
Meditation is an art form, but it's well worth the benefits if you can do it.