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Believe it or not, but we leave in the insane world where everything is not like it was a just a couple of centuries ago. Our forefathers breathed in fresh air, enjoyed clean 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 desperate lives! We consume dead water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our stomachs with harmful food, inhale smoky air and hear 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 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 aches for some rest, too. Unfortunately, the bulk of individuals realize the fact when they fall seriously ill. Don’t become one of them! Think ahead and turn to absolutely safe and highly effective practice known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it come to your mind that persons who meditate daily are more content with their lives, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather hackneyed 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 filling the mind. There are all kinds and types of meditation. Maybe you will be surprised to read that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of focusing 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 traditional medicine it never forgets that people have more than a mere ailing body. Meditation views humans as unique creatures with an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers know for sure that you cannot be healthy and happy with your life if your head is filled with spite, anger and misery. The shocking fact is that more and more mainstream doctors recommend their patients meditation as a way of managing many health troubles. With meditation you can:

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

Meditation is a native activity for every human, that is why it is up to you to make up your mind where you will practice meditation. Some personalities 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 tips for you how to meditate.

1. Concentrate 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 consciousness should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Focus on your body - keep your attention on the feelings 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 mind free of any distracting thoughts.

It is wrong to think that you should always sit during meditation. It is normal 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 present-day meditative techniques 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 applied 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 sort 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 believe that our ordinary state of mind is very shallow - it is both limited and limiting. Meditation broadens human horizons and makes it possible to reveal our conscious and unconscious possibilities completely.

The stunning truth is that despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been undeservedly ignored by the representatives of conventional 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 show 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 ironical scientific world was shaken when refined scientific instrumentation proved that impossible things exist! Now health care professionals 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, men and women 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 has 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 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 comprehension of the world is broader!

In contrast to Transcendental Meditation, Taoists think that our emotions are governed 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 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 consider 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. 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 definitely one of the safest activities imaginable. It is useful for humans of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in patients 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 issue, please, ask your mental health practitioner 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 fact is meditation cannot give you stable relief immediately - in needs some time to work! If you cannot stand queuing up in the waiting room of your physician to get your prescription, find a trusted pharmacy online where you can order prescription medications no prescription necessary legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your reliable guide.