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You can think of it or not, but we leave in the crazy world where everything is not like it was a just a couple of centuries ago. Our forefathers inhaled fresh air, enjoyed clear water and produced 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 bad water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our mouths with junk food, inhale awful air and hear 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 twenty-four hours a day, we are overworked and stressed 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 needs some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head needs some rest, too. Unfortunately, the main part of persons realize this simple truth 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 men and women who meditate on a regular basis are more optimistic, healthier and live longer than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather usual now, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique concentrating practice where the main task is to suspend the normal whirl of thoughts filling the mind. There are all kinds and types of meditation. Maybe you will be stunned to hear that a prayer is also a pure meditation as it is. In addition to this kind of concentration familiar for all believers there are Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness meditation, Zen meditation, Buddhist meditation and Taoist meditation.

Meditation is the realm of complementary medicine that unlike conventional medicine it does no fail to forget that humans have more than a mere ailing body. Meditation perceives individuals as unique creatures with an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers know for sure that you cannot be healthy and pleased with your life if your head is filled with hate, anger and misery. The stunning fact is that more and more conventional doctors prescribe their patients meditation as a way of managing a number of health disorders. With meditation you can:

- lower your blood pressure;
- improve the general state of men and women with angina including their exercise performance;
- let humans with asthma breathe freely;
- forget about insomnia;
- restore after everyday disastrous day of life.

Meditation is a natural activity for every person, that is why it is up to you to decide where you will practice meditation. Some people choose to master meditation at home. It is very simple with all the instructional books and audio CDs available. Others choose 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. Focus on your breath - keep your attention on the sensation of the stream of air passes 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 consciousness should be free of any judgments and reactions.

2. Concentrate on your body - keep your attention on the feelings in your body: pain, warmth, discomfort, tension etc.

3. Concentrate on any word or phrase you like - keeping your attention on a word or phrase is called a “mantra”. Its major task is to keep your mind free of any dangerous thoughts.

It is wrong to think 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 present-day meditative techniques are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of men and women 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.

No doubts of all the religions Buddhism is a “father of meditation” - it is the best known and the most practiced sort of meditation in the world. Buddhists use the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for seing reality as it is. Buddha followers believe that our usual state of mind is very narrow - it is both limited and limiting. Meditation broadens human horizons and makes it possible to reveal our conscious and unconscious possibilities completely.

The sad fact is that in spite of its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been wrongly ignored by the representatives of mainstream medicine and only during the past three decades the medical science focused on the studies of clinical effects of meditation on health. The 1960s started with surprising medical reports of yogis and meditation masters from the mysterious East who could perform 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 started! The ironical scientific world was shaken when refined scientific instrumentation proved that unbelievable things can happen! Now doctors specializing in stress-related disorders had a unique way of treatment without awful side effects typical for drug treatments - it was the art of meditation! It proved to be a valuable tool for stress reduction, and what is more, patients 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 investigation of meditation this activity turned out to be perfect not solely for altering 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 blissful state of relaxation including low heart and perspiration rates, low 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 researching Transcendental Meditation revealed that during meditation the body receives the most profound rest imaginable. 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 believe 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 body your mind becomes calmer, cooler and more controllable, while your sexual energy becomes really enjoyable!

Meditation is probably one of the safest activities imaginable. It is good for men and women of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in patients 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 problem, please, see your mental health doctor before starting the practice of meditation.

One more essential point - if you take meds on a regular basis never stop taking them before you have completed the course. The fact is meditation cannot give you stable relief immediately - in needs some time to work! If you cannot stand standing in line in the waiting room of your doctor to get your prescription, find a reliable internet drugstore online where you can buy drugs no rx required legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your trusted guide.