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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 ancestors breathed in fresh air, enjoyed crystal 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 mad lives! We consume dirty water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our bellies with junk food, breathe in awful air and hear constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous tension, it is absolutely intolerable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry 24/7, 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 men and women realize this simple truth when they fall seriously ill. Don’t become one of them! Think ahead and turn to absolutely safe and highly effective healing system known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it come to your mind that personalities who meditate on a regular basis are more content with their lives, healthier and enjoy longer life expectancy than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather hackneyed now, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the main task is to suspend the normal stream of thoughts occupying the mind. There are all kinds and types 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 concentration 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 official medicine it does no fail to forget that humans have more than a mere aching body. Meditation perceives men and women 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 head is full of hatred, anger and misery. The surprising fact is that more and more traditional doctors recommend their patients meditation as a way of managing a number of illnesses. With meditation you can:

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

Meditation is a natural activity for every human, that is why it is up to you to make up your mind where you will practice meditation. Some men and women prefer 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 sensation 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 consciousness should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Concentrate on your body - keep your attention on the feelings 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 major task is to keep your head free of any dangerous thoughts.

It is wrong to think that you should always sit during meditation. It is OK 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 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 applied 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 seing reality as it is. Buddha followers believe that our ordinary 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 in full measure.

The sad fact is that despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been wrongly ignored by the representatives of traditional 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 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 launched! The pompous scientific world was deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that unbelievable things are possible! 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 research of meditation this activity turned out to be perfect not solely for altering the brain’s function in the short term. The medical data demonstrated that regular practice of meditation has a miraculous long-term positive effect! So, Transcendental Meditation in particular guarantees you a healthy state of relaxation including low heart and perspiration rates, low pulse rate, low 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 researching Transcendental Meditation revealed that during meditation the body gains 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 comprehension of the world is broader!

Unlike Transcendental Meditation, Taoists think that our emotions are ruled by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot keep your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and burns 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 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 through this mental alchemy in the body 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 people of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in personalities 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 disease, please, ask your mental health doctor before starting the practice of meditation.

One more necessary point - if you take medicines on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The point is meditation cannot give you stable relief immediately - in needs some time to work! If you cannot stand standing in line in the waiting room of your practitioner to get your prescription, find a trusted online pharmacy online where you can purchase prescription drugs no prescription required legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your best guide.