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Believe 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 inhaled fresh air, enjoyed clear 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 insane lives! We consume unclean water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our bellies with fast food, inhale filthy air and perceive 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 twenty-four hours a day, 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 needs some rest, too. Unfortunately, the majority of individuals realize this simple truth when they fall seriously ill. Don’t become one of them! Think ahead and try absolutely safe and highly effective healing system known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it come to your mind that personalities who meditate daily are happier, healthier and enjoy longer life expectancy than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather natural now, 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 filling the mind. There are all kinds and types of meditation. Maybe you will be shocked 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 complementary medicine that unlike traditional medicine it does no fail to forget that people have more than a mere sick body. Meditation views patients as unique creatures with an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers know for sure that you cannot be healthy and content with your life if your head is full of hate, anger and disappointment. The intriguing fact is that more and more official doctors prescribe their patients meditation as a way of managing definite health troubles. With meditation you can:

- lower your blood pressure;
- improve the general state of people with angina including their exercise performance;
- let individuals with asthma breathe freely;
- forget about insomnia;
- relax 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 humans prefer to master meditation at home. It is very simple with all the instructional books and audio CDs available. Others prefer to learn from a good teacher.

With all its simplicity meditation can offer you many 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 mind should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Concentrate 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 main 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 possible 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 not new. All up-to-date 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! Actually, all religious groups apply 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 perceiving reality as it is. Buddha followers guess that our usual consciousness is very narrow - it is both limited and limiting. Meditation broadens human horizons and makes it possible to reveal our conscious and unconscious possibilities completely.

The sad fact is that despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been unfairly ignored by the representatives of mainstream 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 shocking 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 started! The squeamish scientific world was shaken 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, 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 research of meditation this activity turned out to be perfect not solely for changing the brain’s function in the short term. The medical data 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, low 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 receives 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 governed 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 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 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. Through this right circulation of two energies and by means of this mental alchemy in the organism your mind becomes calmer, cooler and more controllable, while your sexual energy becomes really enjoyable!

Meditation is obviously one of the safest activities imaginable. It is useful for humans of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in humans 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 drugs on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The truth is meditation cannot give you stable relief at once - in needs some time to work! If you cannot bear queuing up in the waiting room of your doctor to get your prescription, find a reliable pharmacy online where you can order pills no rx required legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your best guide.

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