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You can think of 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 inhaled unpolluted 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 insane lives! We consume dirty water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our bellies with junk food, breathe in filthy air and perceive constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous tension, it is absolutely insufferable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry 24/7, 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 give a thought to the fact that our body requires some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head aches for some rest, too. Unfortunately, the main part of personalities realize the fact when they fall seriously ill. Don’t become one of them! Think ahead and try entirely safe and highly effective practice known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it come to your mind that humans who meditate every day are happier, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather natural these days, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the essential task is to slow down the normal stream of thoughts filling the mind. There are all kinds and sorts of meditation. Maybe you will be surprised to hear that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of focusing 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 official medicine it does no fail to forget that men and women have more than a mere sick body. Meditation views individuals as unique creatures with an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers realize that you cannot be healthy and pleased with your life if your head is filled with hate, anger and disappointment. The amazing fact is that more and more official doctors recommend their patients meditation as a way of managing certain illnesses. With meditation you can:

- lower your blood pressure;
- improve the general state of humans with angina including their exercise performance;
- let individuals with asthma breathe easier;
- get rid of insomnia;
- restore after everyday disastrous day of life.

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

With all its simplicity meditation can offer you a number of 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 going 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. Concentrate on your body - keep your attention on the sensations in your organism: pain, warmth, discomfort, tension etc.

3. Focus 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 mind free of any distracting thoughts.

It is wrong to think that you should always sit during meditation. It is normal to lie down, to stand or even to walk. 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 modern meditative approaches are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of patients around the world. The healing power of mediation has been known and used 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 sort of meditation in the world. Buddhists use the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for understanding reality as it is. Buddha followers guess that our usual consciousness is very shallow - 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 despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been wrongly ignored by the representatives of mainstream medicine and only during the past three decades the medical science focused on the studies of clinical effects of meditation on health. The 1960s started with stunning 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 launched! The ironical scientific world was deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that impossible things can happen! Now health care professionals specializing in stress-related disorders had a unique way of treatment without awful side effects typical for drug treatments - it was the art of meditation! It turned out to be a valuable means for stress reduction, and what is more, people and physicians enjoyed both the process of healing meditation and the health benefits available with regular trainings!

But the greatest 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 low 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 practitioner R. Keith Wallace researching Transcendental Meditation revealed that during meditation the body gets the most profound rest imaginable. Paradoxically, your brain and mind become clear and more alert - your reactions are faster, your creativity and efficiency is greater and your comprehension of the world is broader!

Unlike Transcendental Meditation, Taoists believe that our emotions are ruled by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot keep your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and destroys your life energy and confuses your mind. But you can cope with 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 ruining your life. So, Taoists believe 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 definitely one of the safest activities imaginable. It is useful for persons of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in humans with bad psychiatric issues, there have been a few reports in which regular meditation has worsened the state of their mental health. If you have a psychiatric case, please, talk to your mental health professional before starting the practice of meditation.

One more important point - if you take drugs on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The fact is meditation cannot give you stable relief at once - in requires some time to work! If you cannot bear standing in line in the waiting room of your practitioner to get your prescription, find a reliable internet drugstore online where you can get medications without a prescription legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your reliable guide.