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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 breathed in unpolluted air, enjoyed clean 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 crazy lives! We consume dirty water and extremely harmful soft drinks, stuff our bellies with junk food, breathe in polluted air and hear constant urban noise around us. As for the emotional and nervous tension, it is absolutely unbearable. 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 realize the fact that our body requires some time to relax and restore, what is more, our head requires some rest, too. Unfortunately, the majority of persons realize the fact when they fall seriously ill. Don’t become one of them! Think ahead and turn to completely safe and highly effective healing system known for centuries - meditation.

“Did it come to your mind that humans who meditate daily are more content with their lives, healthier and enjoy longer life expectancy than those who don’t?” This utterance is rather natural today, but is it true or not?

What it meditation? It is a unique focusing practice where the essential task is to slow down the normal whirl of thoughts filling the mind. There are all kinds and sorts of meditation. Maybe you will be shocked to read 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 does no fail to forget that patients have more than a mere ailing body. Meditation perceives men and women as unique creatures possessing an inseparable unity of intellect, body and soul. Meditation teachers realize that you cannot be healthy and pleased with your life if your head is full of hate, anger and hopelessness. The surprising fact is that more and more usual doctors recommend 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;
- relax after everyday stressful day of life.

Meditation is a inherent activity for every human, that is why it is up to you to decide where you will practice meditation. Some patients choose to master meditation at home. It is very simple with all the instructional books and audio CDs available. Others choose to learn from 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 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 sensations in your organism: 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 main task is to keep your head free of any distracting 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 present-day meditative approaches are the product of years and years of work and mental experiments of patients around the world. The healing power of mediation has been known and used for thousands of years. Its cornerstone is tradition and religion; its effect is health and inner harmony! To tell you the truth, all religious groups turn to 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 sort of meditation in the world. Buddhists use the practice of meditation for reaching real wisdom and compassion and for understanding reality as it is. Buddha followers think that our ordinary state of mind is very shallow - it is both limited and limiting. Meditation broadens human horizons and makes it possible to reveal our conscious and unconscious possibilities entirely.

The stunning truth is that despite its unique history and rich traditions, meditation has been undeservedly ignored by the representatives of mainstream medicine and only during the past thirty years the medical science focused on the studies of clinical effects of meditation on health. The 1960s started with shocking 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 started! The squeamish scientific world was shaken when refined scientific instrumentation proved that unbelievable things exist! 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 proved 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 greatest surprise was still to come! After some time of scientific investigation 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 produces a miraculous long-term positive effect! So, Transcendental Meditation in particular guarantees you a healthy state of relaxation including decreased heart and perspiration rates, decreased pulse rate, decreased concentration of cortisol in your blood (it is a major stress hormone) and increased activity of the part of your brain responsible for rest and relaxation! Famous practitioner R. Keith Wallace investigating 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 view of the world is broader!

As distinct from Transcendental Meditation, Taoists think that our emotions are governed by the Fire energy of the heart. When you cannot control your emotions, this fire energy flares upwards and destroys 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 believe 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 by means of this mental alchemy in the body your mind becomes calmer, cooler and more controllable, while your sexual energy becomes really enjoyable!

Meditation is definitely one of the safest activities imaginable. It is good for personalities of all ages and states of health. However, you should know that in personalities with bad psychiatric cases, there have been a few reports in which regular meditation has worsened the state of their mental health. If you have a psychiatric disease, please, talk to your mental health doctor before starting the practice of meditation.

One more necessary point - if you take medications 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 physician to get your prescription, find a trusted web pharmacy online where you can buy prescription medications no prescription needed legally. Take definite steps to make your life better right now! And let healing mediation be your trusted guide.