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You can think of it or not, but we leave in the crazy world where everything is not like it was a just a couple of centuries ago. Our forefathers breathed in fresh air, enjoyed crystal water and produced natural food. What do we have today? Having the same physiology as it was 4 or 5 generations ago modern humans lead mad lives! We consume bad water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our bellies with harmful food, inhale polluted air and live in constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous stress and strain, it is absolutely unbearable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry on a twenty-four hour basis, we are overworked and stressed 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 requires some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head needs some rest, too. Unfortunately, the majority of humans 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 individuals who meditate every day are more content with their lives, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather usual today, 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 whirl of thoughts occupying the mind. There are all kinds and sorts of meditation. Maybe you will be shocked to read that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of focusing clear for all believers there are Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness meditation, Zen meditation, Buddhist meditation and Taoist meditation.

Meditation is the realm of complementary medicine that unlike usual medicine it does no fail to forget that people have more than a mere ill body. Meditation views persons as unique creatures having an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers realize that you cannot be healthy and pleased with your life if your brain is full of hatred, anger and misery. The interesting fact is that more and more usual 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 men and women with angina including their exercise performance;
- let patients with asthma breathe freely;
- forget about insomnia;
- restore after everyday disastrous day of life.

Meditation is a natural activity for every human being, that is why it is up to you to make up your mind 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 prefer 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 mind should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Focus on your body - keep your attention on the sensations in your body: 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 major task is to keep your mind free of any harmful thoughts.

It is wrong to believe 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 techniques are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of persons 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! Actually, all religious groups apply meditation in one form or another.

It is doubtless that 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 think 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 stunning truth is that despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been unfairly ignored by the representatives of conventional 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 amazing medical reports of yogis and meditation masters from the mysterious East who could demonstrate 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 pompous scientific world was deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that incredible things exist! Now doctors 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 proved to be a valuable tool 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 biggest surprise was still to come! After some time of scientific investigation of meditation this activity turned out to be perfect not solely for altering the brain’s function in the short term. The medical facts demonstrated that regular practice of meditation produces a miraculous long-term positive effect! So, Transcendental Meditation in particular guarantees you a healthy 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 increased activity of the part of your brain responsible for rest and relaxation! Famous MD R. Keith Wallace studying Transcendental Meditation revealed that during meditation the body receives 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!

As distinct from 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 devours 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 ruining 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 well balanced. 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 good for individuals of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in patients with bad psychiatric diseases, 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 doctor before starting the practice of meditation.

One more vital point - if you take medications 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 stand queuing up in the waiting room of your physician to get your prescription, find a trusted internet drugstore online where you can order medications without a rx legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your reliable guide.