Meditation, The Source of Infinite Energy

Meditation, The Source of Infinite Energy

                                                                     

Meditation is a mental exercise that involves relaxation, focus, and awareness. Meditation is to the mind what physical exercise is to the body. Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as, mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

Mindfulness practice involves the process of developing the skill of bringing one's attention to whatever is happening in the present moment

Benifts;There are dozens of scientifically proven benefits of meditation. Studies confirm the experience of millions of practitioners: meditation will keep you healthy, help prevent multiple diseases, make you emotionally well, and improve your performance in basically any task, physical or mental.To list with we may count the followings; Less anxiety, More creativity, More compassion, Better memory, Less stress, Better focus. 

Hindrances Of Meditation. ,This is achieved by  stopping  the arising of disturbing thoughts and emotions called

hindrances of meditation.

The five hindrances are;

1.   Sensory desire;  The particular type of wanting that seeks for happiness through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling.

2.   Ill-will;  All kinds of thought related to wanting to reject; feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness.

3.   Sloth; Heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and thick depression.

4.   Restlessness-and-worry; the inability to calm the mind.

5.   Doubt; lack of conviction or trust.

What happens in your brain when you meditate?

The overall difference is that our brains stop processing information as actively as they normally would. We start to show a decrease in beta waves, which indicate that our brains are processing information, even after a single 20-minute meditation session if we’ve never tried it before.

In the image below you can see how the beta waves (shown in bright colors on the left) are dramatically reduced during meditation (on the right)

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