How Meditation Helps

How Meditation Helps

Meditation is result of concentration. Concentration is followed by relaxation always. The relaxation earned because of meditation helps to maintain the metabolism, lowers the high blood pressure, improve the heart rate and minimize the number of thoughts in the mind.

When thoughts minimized waves of brain become stable. So meditation helps one to take control of his/her mind. Insomnia is easily controlled by simple meditation techniques.

If you are suffering from depression meditation can yield best results for you. Meditation gives direction to your thoughts. It removes the negative thoughts. On regular practice meditation has power to remove the negative mental patterns in the brain.

If you are a student then meditation helps you improve your memory. Meditation helps you to improve your concentration. Meditation helps to keep you completely relaxed even in your exam days. It relaxes the tired minds. It gives strength to the weak minds. It enhance the level of your awareness. Its regular practice beautify you.

If you are a working lady it helps you a lot. It can reduce your stresses immediately. It can give you a calm and ever ready mind. It helps you to manage your time as it works on your thoughts.

Your health issues can easily managed with the help of meditation. It balances the different body systems. Meditation has power to change your thinking and helps you to think positive.

Mediation helps you to prepare for any difficult situation of the life. It generate courage within you.

Your mood and your thoughts affect every aspects of your life. Good mental health is directly proportional to the good physical health. Both are necessary.

There are three types of emotions in general. Positive Emotions, Negative Emotions and Neutral Emotions. Meditation helps you to generate positive emotions within you. This leads one to a positive and healthy life style.

Meditation enhance the mindfulness. It helps to take control of yourself. Meditation leads us to know the reality behind our existence.

Meditation help us to improve our focus. This improved focus helps us to live a better life.   

How to Improve Concentration Power

How to Improve the Memory Power

Definition of concentration in Chemistry is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Main constituent is called as solute and this solute is dissolved in a solvent to form a solution.

My area of concern is meditation. Concentration is pre-condition for meditation. Here solute is that single thought which need to be increased. More solute means more concentration. Here more solute means more focus on a single thought. More concentration means more relaxation. This is very beautiful thing that concentration always comes with relaxation. Relaxation is guaranteed with concentration.

Concentration helps one in so many ways. Concentration help us to see the things in a better way. It’s develop a wider attention span. It improve the memory. Concentration assist us in study and understanding. This helps us to focus on our study or on our task.

Meditation is the most effective way to improve your concentration. To watch yours thought another best way of improving your concentration. For this first you must be aware of your normal breath. Be just a witness of your breath and keep watching that how breath is coming out and how breathing is going in. Just be aware of this natural process. Do not try to take breath. Just be witness of it. You will see you are relaxed. This relaxation is because of concentration you earned from the process.   

You can practice tratak to improve the concentration. Tratak on fire flame yields best results. Tratak can you two things simultaneously. First it pure the mind and it concentrate the mind.  

Music is also a best method to increase the amount of concentration. When you start listening a music concentrate on a single instrument playing in that music or song. For example if you are listening a song you can concentrate on single instrument; say Tabla’. Keep your entire awareness on ‘tabla’. You will see you are relaxed. This because of concentration you earned.

When concentration is improved and its amount increased remarkably it covert into the happiness. Happiness is a state of mind and it directly related to concentration of the mind.

One more method to improve the concentration is deep breathing. First be aware of your normal breath and then start deep breathing. Inhale the ample amount of oxygen and prana urja (vital energy) and retain it then exhale it. Practice it 10 times. Do it very slowly and calmly. You will see that you are relaxed. You are relaxed again because of concentration you developed from the deep breathing exercise.

Is Meditation Scientifically Proven Technique?

Is Meditation Scientifically Proven Technique?

Many studies has been conducted to look at the efficiency of meditation on physical health and mental health. Meditation is the most effective means for helping the hypertension has been referred by the US National Institute of Health.

Meditation reduces stress level. Activity of adrenal gland reduces by relaxation of mind.  

Mediation calm one’s mind. In the process of meditation we focus on a one single thought. Focusing the mind on a single thought creates relaxation. But is not the goal of the meditation technique. Goal of meditation technique is Self-Realization.

General meaning of Self-Realization is to be aware of true energies behind this world and behind the formless reality behind different forms.

Mediation have tremendous powers. It can activate the parts of our brain responsible for involuntary bodily functions like high blood pressure, migraine, stress, muscular tensions and others.

Meditation produces relaxation and this relaxation can change the chemistry of our body to its natural state as discovered by - The Harvard Medical School.

Human mind generally dwells in past or in future. This is the main problem of the human mind. Meditation has power to bring the human mind into the present moment of the life. This helps us to enjoy the life more accurately.

Mediation help us to control the emotions as it helps one to be focus at the one single thought. This leads to immediate relaxation less anxiety state. Meditation helps one to manage the anger. Anger affects the function of the frontal lobe of our brain.

Anger shut down the functionality of the frontal lobe which in-turn produces communication problem and increase the stress level.

Blood Cholesterol is becoming a major problem in human life. Most of the heart diseases are result of this blood cholesterol. When we are in stress the adrenal gland start producing cortisol. This steroid hormone become excess in our body which destroy the body cells. These destroyed cells are automatically patched up with the cholesterol. So higher the stress more steroid hormones will released. Meditation naturally reduced the stress and hence helps to maintain the level of hormones in the body.

People falls in different addiction in this modern world. Many of us get addict of alcohol, tobacco, drugs. Meditation helps one to come out of addiction. Will power gained through the meditation helps one to fight against the addiction.

Learn Meditation - Step by Step

How to Meditate – Step by Step

Requirements

A separate room or a separate space in any corner in your home.

Meditation Cushion or Any piece of thick cloth.

Procedure

Sit in any comfortable position. Any comfortable asana you can take. You can also sit on chair.

Spinal Cord should be straight.

Head, Chest Should be perpendicular to the ground.

Start chanting aum (ॐ) or any other mantra of your choice. Do it for 5 minutes.

Start Mediation 

Now gently close your eyes. Take the charge of your thoughts for some time.

Visualize a mountain full of greenery. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize black clouds in sky. Visualize it for 1 minute.   

Visualize birds flying in the sky. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize an aircraft in the sky. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize full moon in the sky. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize full moon in a blue water lake. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize a river full of blue water. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize a water fall. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize flame of fire on candle. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Visualize a peacock in a park. Visualize it for 1 minute.

Now place your awareness at the point between two eyes. Do it for 5-10 minutes.

Now we have to be externalized. Be aware of the outer sounds. Rub your hands and place tips of your hand on your eyes gently. Gently open your eyes.

Say Prayer in your own words.

Your meditation is finished now.  

Results of this meditation

Full day Calmness

Full day Freshness

Full day Energy  

Full Day Peace

Full day Concentration

Full day attracted Face

Learn Tratak in Easy Steps

Learn Tratak in Easy Steps

Project – How to learn Tratak in simple steps?

Apparatus Required –

Sr. no.	Name of Apparatus	Number
1	Candle or Oil Lamp	1
2	Candle or Oil Stand or Any Stool	1
3	Meditation Cushion	1
4	Forceps	1
5	Match Box	1

Preparation

1. Sit in any comfortable position on meditation cushion. You can use simple blanket or heavy cotton bed sheet as meditation cushion.
2. Keep Candle or Oil Lamp on stand. Level of flame should be at the level of your eyes. Distance between eyes and fire flame is about 2 feet.
3. Lit the candle or oil lamp
4. Adjust the flame with the forceps
5. Practice Nadi Shodhan Pranyaam for 5 minute
6. Practice Bharamari Pranyaam for 2 minutes

Procedure –

1. Start Gazing at Fire Flame until tears comes out.
2. Now close your eyes and start watching point between two eyes with closed eyes.
3. Watch time with close eyes should be not less than 5 minutes
4. After 5 minutes again open the eyes and start gazing at the fire flame again.
5. Repeat the Step number 1 and 2 again and again

Results –

1. Thoughts will be settled down after 10 minutes
2. Negative of the image of the flame will appear on point between two eyes. You will watch the flame’s negative with close eyes.
3. Color of this image will be bright yellow or orange in first phase.
4. This image will start moving up and down or right and left.
5. When this image appears its intensity will be high and by time this image will be faded out.
6. You have to watch until it disappear completely.  
7. After some time this image will become stationary.
8. When it became stationary frequency of thoughts will fall down. Concentration with relaxation will appears in the mind.
9. After some time this flame will start changing its colors.  

Precautions

1. Age limits 12 years – 70 Years
2. There should be complete dark in the room.
3. Noise free place
4. Adjust the shape of the flame with the help of forceps
5. One window must me opened during the practice as there may produces CO and CO₂ from the candle flame or Oil lamp flame.
6. If you are using Oil Lamp, use oil of high smoking point. Sesame Oil has high smoking point.
7.  Do not gaze more if you face any irritation in your eyes. In this condition do not wait for tears to come. Just gaze as your eyes allow.
8. Start with 15 minutes practice only.
9. End with meditation and prayer.

Level of our Awareness

Types of Mind

What is in your awareness in conscious and what is not in your awareness is not conscious mind. You are awake it means you are completely aware of  all things around you. We are always aware to the same extent whether for outside or inside of us.

Did you ever think that why you keep the animal. Because you want to be more aware of the outer world. For example Dog, Dog is more aware of the outside than to human beings. He can see beyond we see, he can smell things beyond our smelling capabilities.

 But outer awareness is not our concern actually. It is required and must be required to know the out world around us. But our main concern is development of inner awareness, inner consciousness.

How many of you right now are aware of yourselves and to what contents. Are you aware of what is happening in your mind or you become victim of thoughts? We have to deepen this awareness, this consciousness.

I am here or I am alive or I am spending my life or I am 30 years old this is my awareness. If this awareness disappears everything I am talking about would disappear. If my awareness disappears I will disappear too.

But our awareness in very minimum right now. We have to extend it to know more and more behind the worldly scenes, to understand the reality behind the universe.

Our whole awareness in struck within the mental impressions or mental patterns available in our subconscious mind and unconscious mind. We have to separate our awareness from our impressions and the moment we will separate ourselves from the mental impressions our consciousness will be released to us tremendously.

That is why meditation is necessary because with meditation we could be able to release this awareness.

We all are Spiritually Hungry

Spirituality is becoming a necessity now a days because we become reckless for the other parts of the human being. We are not single we are three actually. We put your all attentions on the materialistic part the human being; the body. We concern only about the bodily part of human instrument. We forget there is a mind, there is intellect and there is a life principle. You can give a name; the soul, to this life principle.

We should know how to care for and feed our minds and souls. Now clinical psychologist are recommending to adopt the practice of spiritual programs. Spirituality is essential to human happiness and mental health.

Vedanta is a thought from spiritual minds from India. The knowledge of Vedanta actually is a happening to minds of those who practice mediation and deep contemplation. In that deep state when brains waves went to minimum; the life force give rises to a kind of spiritual knowledge. That knowledge can be received by anyone who undergo that experience.

Contemplation, meditation, prayers and other spiritual practices from any branch of religion have the power to release the life force in the deepest level of human minds. There are couple of evidences showing that religious and spiritual practices can help when everything else has failed.

In recent study in US it is found that most of the Americans want to be spiritual but not want to be religious. The idea behind this is to nourish the mind and underlying principle of life force.

Human instrument is not a single entity; the body. At the same time this instrument is comprises of a body, a mind and a soul. All these three entities are different from each other. Methods of nourishment for the each must be different. Methods of nourishment of body are so many as the entire World is working upon it.

But method of nourishment for mind start from contemplation and meditation. According to the Mental Health Foundation one out of four British adults practice the art of meditation. Besides this 50% would be interested in learning meditation because they think that meditation can help them improving their health.

We all are fighting for peace and happiness. Whatever we do in our life is to bring the happiness in our lives. Sometimes we forget about the peace and only fight for happiness. But Vedanta says happiness is a state of mind. When mind releases tranquility we immediately become happy.

Wonderful, indeed, it is to tame the mind, so difficult to tame ever swift, and seizing whatever it desires. A tamed mind brings happiness – Buddha.

A tamed mind brings happiness. Spiritual Practices like yoga, yoga nidra and meditation helps to tame our mind. After taming the mind there are chances to nourish our soul. Because the way to reach the soul goes through a silent mind only. After silencing the mind and after taming the mind we could be able to understand the underlying principle.                 

So care of all three parts of a human instrument is necessary to avoid the stress and to live a peaceful life.