Meditation
Today I am going to be talking about meditation. Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness.
Meditating is done in many different religions such as Bahá’í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, and Taoism. It even has roots in Catholicism.
Did you know that people who meditate are much happier and healthier than everyone else? It’s true. And they have greatly extended life spans, too. As a matter of fact, there have been numerous studies showing that meditation dramatically reduces, and even reverses disease of all types. It is a great stress reliever, too!
But the benefits of meditation don’t stop there. Studies also show that experienced meditators -those who are able to achieve the deepest levels of meditative states – are able to tap into dormant levels of brain function they never thought possible -levels of function that exist in each and every one of us -resulting in increased intelligence and moving us closer to answering life’s mysterious questions.
Upon closer examination of meditators’ brains, they consistently show to function at a superior level than the average person’s on every single test, measurement, and assessment generated among the scientific community. In fact, if you do your homework, you’ll discover that many of history’s greatest inventors, philosophers, and scientists received their revolutionary, future -changing ideas during their daily meditation sessions. Which is crazy to think that even back then they meditated and it also helped them in life.
In my opinion I find it very important to meditate. I still remember the first time I did it, I thought it was pretty useless and stupid but after I did it a few times I didn’t just get the hang of it but I understood the point of it. The point of it is just calming your mind and getting everything off your mind because our lives are really busy specially this time of season. When you meditate you don’t just get everything off of your mind but you also start having a conversation with God and that’s where Christian meditation comes in.
Meditation is a very important thing in life and you get the hang of it easily after a while. You also start getting closer to God.
Ma-ra-na-tha
Wow, this was a really well-written piece on the benefits of meditation. It’s a great reminder, just before the holidays, to carve out time to quiet our busy minds. Thanks Tony!