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You can think of 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 previous generations breathed in unpolluted air, enjoyed pure 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 mouths with harmful food, inhale awful air and perceive constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous stress and strain, it is absolutely intolerable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry twenty-four hours a day, 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 needs some rest, too. Unfortunately, the main part of individuals realize the fact when they fall seriously ill. Don’t join 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 daily are happier, healthier and enjoy longer life expectancy 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 major task is to slow down the normal whirl 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 natural 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 usual medicine it never forgets that humans have more than a mere aching body. Meditation views individuals 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 head is filled with spite, anger and misery. The stunning fact is that more and more usual doctors prescribe their patients meditation as a way of managing many illnesses. With meditation you can:

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

Meditation is a inherent activity for every human being, that is why it is up to you to decide 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 learn from 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 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 mind should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Concentrate 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 major 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 just as good 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 contemporary 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 turn to 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 type 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 think 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 official medicine and only during the past thirty years 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 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 ironical scientific world was deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that unbelievable things exist! 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 turned out to be a valuable tool for stress reduction, and what is more, personalities 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 research 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 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 high activity of the part of your brain responsible for rest and relaxation! Famous doctor R. Keith Wallace studying Transcendental Meditation found out that during meditation the body gains 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 comprehension of the world is broader!

Unlike 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 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 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 obviously one of the safest activities possible. It is useful for humans of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in men and women with bad psychiatric cases, there have been a few reports in which regular meditation has worsened the state of their mental health. If you have a psychiatric problem, please, see your mental health doctor before starting the practice of meditation.

One more important 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 physician to get your prescription, find a reliable web drugstore online where you can order drugs no prescription necessary legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your reliable guide.