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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 ancestors 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 desperate lives! We consume dirty water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our stomachs with harmful food, breathe in polluted air and perceive constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous tension, it is absolutely intolerable. Our speed of life makes us be in a hurry round the clock, we are overworked and downtrodden 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 requires some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head needs some rest, too. Unfortunately, the bulk of men and women realize the fact when they fall seriously ill. Don’t join them! Think ahead and turn to entirely safe and highly effective practice known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it occur to you that people who meditate daily are more optimistic, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather hackneyed now, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the most important task is to suspend the normal whirl of thoughts filling the mind. There are all kinds and sorts of meditation. Maybe you will be amazed to find out that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of focusing 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 official medicine it never forgets that persons have more than a mere aching body. Meditation perceives men and women as unique creatures possessing 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 brain is full of spite, anger and misery. The shocking fact is that more and more official doctors recommend their patients meditation as a way of managing a number of health troubles. With meditation you can:

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

Meditation is a native activity for every human being, that is why it is up to you to decide where you will practice meditation. Some persons choose to master meditation at home. It is very simple with all the instructional books and audio CDs available. Others prefer to find a good teacher.

With all its simplicity meditation can offer you numerous 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 organism: 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 general task is to keep your mind free of any harmful thoughts.

It is wrong to believe that you should always sit during meditation. It is OK 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 rather old. All modern meditative techniques 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! Actually, all religious groups apply 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 type of meditation in the world. Buddhists apply the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for understanding reality as it is. Buddha followers believe that our usual consciousness 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 amazing 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 deeply shocked when refined scientific instrumentation proved that incredible things are possible! 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, individuals 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 research of meditation this activity turned out to be perfect not solely for changing the brain’s function in the short term. The medical data 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 low heart and perspiration rates, decreased pulse rate, low 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 MD R. Keith Wallace studying Transcendental Meditation found out 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 consider that our emotions are governed by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot control 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. Through this right circulation of two energies and through 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 possible. It is useful for men and women of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in people 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 case, please, ask your mental health practitioner before starting the practice of meditation.

One more vital point - if you take pills on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The point 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 practitioner to get your prescription, find a trusted online pharmacy online where you can purchase pills without prescription legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your best guide.