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Believe 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 ancestors inhaled unpolluted 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 insane lives! We consume bad water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our stomachs with junk food, breathe in smoky 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 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 realize the fact that our body requires some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head requires some rest, too. Unfortunately, the main part of men and women realize this simple truth when they fall seriously ill. Don’t become one of them! Think ahead and try completely safe and highly effective practice known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it occur to you that humans who meditate daily are happier, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather common these days, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the essential task is to suspend the normal stream of thoughts filling the mind. There are all kinds and types of meditation. Maybe you will be amazed to read that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of concentration familiar 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 persons have more than a mere aching body. Meditation perceives personalities as unique creatures having an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers understand that you cannot be healthy and content with your life if your head is full of hatred, anger and hopelessness. The surprising fact is that more and more usual doctors recommend their patients meditation as a way of managing definite illnesses. With meditation you can:

- lower your blood pressure;
- improve the general state of men and women with angina including their exercise performance;
- let humans with asthma breathe easier;
- forget about insomnia;
- relax after everyday disastrous day of life.

Meditation is a native activity for every human being, that is why it is up to you to decide where you will practice meditation. Some individuals 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 numerous options. There are several approaches to meditation. Here are some prompts for you how to meditate.

1. Concentrate 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. 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 distracting thoughts.

It is wrong to believe that you should always sit during meditation. It is just as good to lie down, to stand or even to have a strall. 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 contemporary meditative techniques are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of humans around the world. The healing power of mediation has been known and practiced for thousands of years. Its cornerstone is tradition and religion; its effect is health and inner harmony! Actually, all religious groups turn to 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 use the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for perceiving reality as it is. Buddha followers think 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 official medicine and only during the past three decades the medical science concentrated 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 perform 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 squeamish scientific world was deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that incredible things are possible! Now doctors 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 investigation 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 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, low 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 investigating 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 view 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 control your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and burns 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 dissipating 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 organism 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 humans of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in people with bad psychiatric problems, 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, see your mental health professional before starting the practice of meditation.

One more essential 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 at once - in requires some time to work! If you cannot stand standing in line in the waiting room of your MD to get your prescription, find a reliable online pharmacy online where you can get drugs without rx legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your reliable guide.