The Power of Meditation in Our Journey Through Life

• Do you sometimes feel scattered?
• Are you anxious about many things?
• Do you have questions about your purpose and your mission in life?
• Would you like to become more grounded, focused and relaxed?
• Do you have a desire to feel more connected on a soul level?
• Are you concerned about your overall state of health?
• Do you feel as though something is missing?

If your answer is yes to any of these questions – perhaps meditation would be a good discipline for you to embrace.

Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years in all walks of life and in numerous spiritual disciplines. There are no boundaries to this age-old discipline. There are many different ways to practice meditation. Whatever method you choose the benefits are similar. There are basically three components that meditation affects: Mental/Emotional, Physical and Spiritual.


Mental/Emotional
Meditation will give you more mental clarity and the ability to see and perceive things as they really are. You will begin to feel less anxious about issues that previously caused you stress. As you become calmer you will find that you listen better and have more patience, becoming more tolerant of other people’s actions and circumstances over which you have no control. The new calm that you experience will also enable you to be detached from any outcome. The mental and emotional well being alone is more than enough reason to take up meditation. But there is more.


Physical
Meditation will also affect your physical well being. It has been documented that meditation helps lower blood pressure; it slows down breathing and the heart rate. Meditation boosts your immune system, supports healing of many illnesses, especially chronic illnesses, and helps relieve pain and suffering. It has even been known to improve survival in persons with cancer. Because meditation helps the body to function in a calmer state it reduces the stress on adrenal glands, reducing negative hormones, thus improving the function of positive hormones and slowing down the aging process.

It has been shown that over time you will be drawn to a healthier lifestyle, - better diet, more exercise and also eliminating habits that are contradictory to good health such as smoking and excessive use of alcohol. As you understand the benefits for your physical well being I trust you are being drawn to this discipline of meditation. But there is even more.


Spiritual
The spiritual benefits, in my humble opinion, are the most profound, as this is the dimension of you that underscores every aspect of your being. We are all spiritual beings having a human experience. As you begin to practice the discipline of meditation you will begin to notice heightened awareness of your inner Self - the discovery of your true being. You will become aware of a peace of mind that previously you did not think was possible. You will have a deeper sense of being “Present”, of being in the “Now”.

The practice of meditation will aid you in being grounded and focused and you will become aware of a connectedness, on a soul-level, with people you come in contact. Questions you have had in the past about your purpose, or your mission in life will begin to have answers and you will desire a more purposeful direction in your life. Over time your life will begin to improve in ways that in the beginning you could only dream.

I encourage you to begin your own practice of meditation. Though meditation is not a panacea for all of life’s challenges, it is a powerful tool to support us as we go through life.

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