“Meditation improves our mind, health, wellbeing and adds happiness” – Delna Pooniwala.
Meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness. It is a state of profound and deep peace that one experiences, when the mind is calm and the beginning of an inner transformation.
For many of us ‘Meditation’ may sound truly difficult and herculean. However, you can start with small steps. Just sit down or lay down in any comfortable position in any corner of your house for 5 minutes each day. You needn’t have a particular posture or cross your legs. You just have to feel comfortable. Then focus on your breath going in through your nostril and going into your system, filling your lungs and then slowly leaving your lungs empty, as you breathe out.
You would definitely get distracted with thoughts so do not fight them, but get to know yourself. Address these with a calm peaceful approach as if you are a great learned sage mentoring and advising your thought process with love and positivity. Make peace with yourself and with this activity soon there will be peace all around since it would affect you less in a negative way.
Meditation is possibly the most effective forms of relieving stress and has a potential of improving quality of life as it is a Cessation of the thought process. It is a state, where the ‘thoughtless awareness’ in which stress producing activity o the mind neutralizes without reducing alertness or productivity as meditation is a technique that reduces the release of catacholamines or stress hormones and parasympathetic activity is increased.
Meditation requires no special equipment, and is not complicated to learn. It can be practiced anywhere, at any given moment, without consuming a lot of time. So try it out. What you may possibly lose is a few minutes each day but would gain nothing but Positivity.
