Meditation is an activity that can helps people to achieve a sense of relaxation of the body after doing it. It can heighten the state of awareness. Frequent meditation can help to lesser restless thoughts and emotions and bring a sense of well-being to people. People will then be able to temporary get away from the outside world and enjoy themselves during meditating.
It is no doubts that the mind of people can easily affect body functions and chemical balance that could ensure us good health. The energy levels of a person will become disrupted when the mind are being disturbed by saddened feelings and thoughts, like resentment, anxiety and worry. This can leads to some symptoms of illness.
Practicing meditation can bring some advantages to people. This includes regulating of blood pressure, stimulating of blood circulation, alleviating pain, lowering and reducing of muscular tension and of course, slowing down hormonal activity.
Meditation is usually associated with an ascetic and spiritual lifestyle. There is no need to renounce any own beliefs. When ones is feeling down or has any problems with themselves, it is recommended for them to practice meditating as it will bring benefits to them mentally and physically in a way or another and to relief the stress in them and at the same time, improve ones health and sustained a sense of well-being.
However, before ones start meditating, it is important to establish the good habits first. This includes learning the appropriate and right posture and control of breath. Both of these factors are equally important in aiding concentration when the thoughts of ones start to wander during meditation. This is commonly seen in the earlier stage of meditating.
When ones start to meditate, the most difficult aspect is often keeping the mind quiet (quietening of mind). In the beginning, most of the people will find lots of other stuffs that seem more important to them that need their immediate attention; hence they will put meditation aside first. This may be due to either they think that meditating is not benefiting them, they did not enjoy meditating or meditating is a waste of time to them.
In order to start the correct way of meditating, it is encouraged to begin with simple exercises to have good practice. For instance, candle gazing meditation will help to train the habit of sitting in silence and the focusing on objects. However, this method needs to be practice twice a day for six days and then, rest for a day before continuing it again.