Peace: Give it a chance

With yourself, when was the last time you felt peace within?

I am also struggling to find my inner peace, if you have been reading my articles it's mostly about my life that would give hint what my life is like. Self worth seems nowhere to find,its like trying to look for a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but left hopeless.

Let me just share this which could help on attaining inner peace that should be given a chance to be practicedoing.

Today's modern people are having different walks of life that are demanding which require them to be up and about all around the clock. Not minding their own self just to keep up with their hectic schedule which results to physical and mental breakdowns.

However, their are remedies which need to be included on our time managing. One is meditation- 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.Wikipedia

I'm a fan of those chinese movies portraying martial arts when I was a kid. Monks have sessions for meditation, it's their way of praying. One can see how calm they are even when faced with adversities. I always wonder how they do it and how would it not cause one to sleep when actually, praying makes me keep yawning😂.

Meditation is not an exotic, difficult practice that requires chanting, va

navel gazing or sitting in the lotus position.In fact, if you have repeatedly said a prayer or gazed for a while at something- such as a campfire or the ocean-going you're already on your way ro knowing how to meditate. Now let's try it, basics are simple:

1.Sit in a comfortable position. Do the classic posture, cross-legged on the floor, with your bottom supported by a small round cushion. If you find it uncomfortable, try other options like lying down on your back, sitting back on your legs or on a straight -backed chair.

2. Straighten your spine. Imagine yourself supported by a string hanging from the ceiling, connecting to the top of your head.

3. Breath through your nose, so that the air completely fills your lungs-expanding your abdomen and entire chest cavity. Then exhale slowly through your nose or mouth contracting your abdominal muscles at the end of the exhalation to expell all the air from your lungs.

4. Pick something to focus on, example a canlde flame, a flower or a picture. Or just focus on your breath by counting each inhalation and exhalation. Breath in slowly at the count of five, then out slowly to the same count of five. If your mind begins to wander, gently bring it back tp focus on your breath- or on whatever object you've chosen for meditation.

If you like you can also focus on a meaningful word or phrase - known as a mantra - and mentally recite it in synchrony with your breathing. For exampe, on inhaling think "calm" and on exhaling think "smile."

Start with 10 minutes or more time to meditate but even a couple of minutes is beneficial.

People are embracing meditation for reasons that go beyond its ability to relieve stress. It is a great help for people especially those trying to manage heart disease.Or when trying to control migraine, lowering blood pressure, find release from chronic pain, or coping with cancer treatments. Long after they have resolve the problem, they continue with meditation as it helps in their other areas of lives.

Herbert Benson,a Harvard Medical School cardiologist who began training heart patients in the technique in the late 1960s to early 1970s noted the patients blood pressure and stress test plummeted which attracted scientific attention in the US. He became so impressed of the outcome that he chronicled his findings in the book "The Relaxation Response," which became a best seller. "Sixty to eighty percent of visits to health care professionals are related to stress. These problems are poorly treated with medications and surgeries but respond extremely well to mind-body approaches," Benson stated.

The relaxation response as tension leaving muscles, a decrease in anxious thoughts and a decline in stress hormones.

Some benefits of meditation :

1. Anxiety control

Our job requires us to be competitive as a result we worry a lot on what's to be done next or what's coming next specially when ones job is multi-tasking. This causes anxiety which affects ones productivity. But, with the help of meditation even when doing it for a short time the right way on your desk will free you from those worries. It makes you calm and able to think straight, giving each task the needed attention. Thus, making you productive resulting to a more quality and quantity of accomplishments.

Patients who practice meditation before undergoing surgery reported less anxiety and coped better with the surgery. Doctors feel happy about it as patients' blood pressure was lower, they bles less and surgery took shorter time.

2.Migraine ease

According to the US Headache Consortium's analysis of ten published studies, migraine sufferers experienced a 32% reduction in frequency or severity after using meditation as a treatment.

3.Psoriasis relief

The lesions of patients who listened to a meditation tape while undergoing ultraviolet phototherapy treatment healed 4x faster than those patients who didn't.

4.Chronic Pain

meditation was very effective in lessening the suffering of patients battling chronic pain.

5.Cancer treatment

While meditation is not a cure for cancer, in the same way it alleviates the suffering of chronic pain it allows people undergoing chemotherapy to better manage the pain and brutal side effects.

6. Oneness and Cooperation

Practicing meditation in a group setting also seems to help people to become closer as well ad more productive. Let's take 46-year old crew captain, firefighter Bob Hagg for example. He and his crew started practicing yoga and meditation because they need the flexibility to perform their job. He said, "we found that the meditation had a calming effect on all of us, so that even during major alarm, we stay together and don't get rattled."

How can sitting quietly have this kind of power? Meditation affects brain activity specifically on the limbic nervous system, which controls metabolism, blood pressure, respiration and heart rate?

Meditation's true power comes not just form the time spent in a formal practice but from taking the lessons of meditation - to be relax and aware out into the rest of your day.

How about you, would you include meditation on your to-do list?

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#I wonder why it's none EXC when in fact I had to type it from my own point of view#