14 benefits of meditation:
1. It gives you clarity of thought. Life has hundreds of choices, and with meditation, you know which choice to make.
2. You make better decisions in life because your mind got enough rest through meditation, and it has the strength to think productively.
3. You clearly understand what you want and what you don’t want in life. This clarity helps you pursue your dreams and achieve big things in life.
4. You gain mastery over your thoughts through meditation, and this mastery helps you in creating new business or invention or new painting or a song. All the great inventions and businesses in the world are built by people who have mastery over their thinking capacity.
5. It relieves stress and results in better health physically, emotionally, mentally. Many of the modern-day diseases are due to stress, and regular meditation can protect you from such diseases.
6. It refreshes and recharges you to handle your day-to-day situations.
7. It helps you find solutions to the problems challenging in daily life.
8. It gives you control over your emotions. Emotions play a great role in our life, and when they are beyond our control, they can impact life negatively. Emotional mastery is one of the biggest assets in life and can make you super successful in life. Meditation helps you gain emotional mastery.
9. Relationships improve because meditation helps you choose your words, actions, thoughts, emotions carefully, and impulsive reactions in relationships come down.
10. It improves your productivity in your work and life because of the sharpened mind.
11. Your learning capability is enhanced significantly, and you become creative.
12. It brings you profound inner peace and purpose in life.
13. It helps you become kind and compassionate, and a better human being.
14. Meditation helps you overcome depression and suicidal tendencies.
These are some of the benefits gained by the regular practice of meditation. So, how to meditate?
There are more than 100 types of meditation in the world, and all of them have the same goal – the stillness of the mind. Today, let’s start with the simple form of meditation – mindfulness. Mindfulness is fully being in the present moment without thinking about the past or future. Many of us are mostly either thinking of what happened in the past or thinking of what is going to happen in the future. We are rarely in the present moment.
When you are eating food, mindfulness means being aware that you are eating the food. You are just eating food, not thinking about other things, not watching the TV, not on a phone call, not sending a text message. In simple words, mindfulness means only doing and focusing on what you are doing in the present moment.
The practice of mindfulness is the simplest form of meditation, which you can start right now. You can practice mindfulness on your breath or on any activity you are doing.
There are many types of meditation. You can pick up any meditation that suits you and start practicing it. Don’t wait any more to start on this beautiful journey of meditation. In order to stay on top of the game, it’s important to have a sharp mind. Start your meditation journey right today and gain the many benefits of meditation.
Happy meditation!
