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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 clean 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 mad lives! We consume dead water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our mouths 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 insufferable. 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 give a thought to the fact that our body needs some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head requires 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 humans who meditate on a regular basis are more content with their lives, 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 main task is to suspend the normal stream of thoughts occupying the mind. There are all kinds and sorts of meditation. Maybe you will be surprised to hear 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 alternative medicine that unlike official medicine it never forgets that patients have more than a mere aching body. Meditation perceives people as unique creatures having an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers understand that you cannot be healthy and happy with your life if your brain is full of hate, anger and misery. The surprising fact is that more and more official doctors recommend their patients meditation as a way of managing definite health troubles. With meditation you can:

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

Meditation is a inherent activity for every person, that is why it is up to you to decide where you will practice meditation. Some patients 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 a number of options. There are several approaches to meditation. Here are some tips for you how to meditate.

1. Focus on your breath - keep your attention on the sensation of the stream of air going 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 organism: pain, warmth, discomfort, tension etc.

3. Concentrate 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 possible 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 rather old. All up-to-date meditative approaches are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of individuals 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! To tell you the truth, 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 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 stunning truth is that in spite of its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been unfairly ignored by the representatives of traditional medicine and only during the past thirty years the medical science focused 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 squeamish scientific world was deeply shocked 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, humans and physicians enjoyed both the process of healing meditation and the health benefits available with regular trainings!

But the greatest surprise was still to come! After some time of scientific investigation 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 produces a miraculous long-term positive effect! So, Transcendental Meditation in particular guarantees you a blissful state of relaxation including decreased heart and perspiration rates, low pulse rate, decreased 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 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!

As distinct from Transcendental Meditation, Taoists consider that our emotions are ruled by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot keep your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and destroys 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 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 probably one of the safest activities imaginable. It is useful for individuals of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in individuals with bad psychiatric issues, 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, see your mental health doctor before starting the practice of meditation.

One more important point - if you take pills on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The fact is meditation cannot give you stable relief at once - in requires some time to work! If you cannot bear standing in line in the waiting room of your MD to get your prescription, find a trusted pharmacy online where you can get meds without rx legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your trusted guide.