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Meditation is a practice in which 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.
Meditation isn’t about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It’s about training in awareness and getting a healthy sense of perspective. You’re not trying to turn off your thoughts or feelings. You’re learning to observe them without judgment. And eventually, you may start to better understand them as well.
Practicing yoga at least once each day will also help you achieve clarity calmness.
Meditation may significantly reduce stress, anxiety, depression and pain. It can also enhance peace, perception and overall well-being. Meditation lowers heart rate, oxygen consumption, breathing frequency, stress hormones, lactate levels, along with a modest decline in blood pressure. However, those who have meditated for two or three years were found to already have low blood pressure. During meditation, the oxygen consumption decrease averages 10 to 20 percent over the first three minutes. During sleep for example, oxygen consumption decreases around 8 percent over four or five hours. For meditators who have practiced for years, breath rate can drop to three or four breaths per minute.
There’s no one correct way to meditate. That’s because meditation can take many different forms. Experts have analyzed meditation practices and found that some common processes happen across different meditation forms. These are:
The practice of mindfulness doesn’t require a peaceful setting. And while it may be easier to connect to stillness in an idyllic location or in a spot that’s devoid of sound, it’s not necessary. The truth is, you can meditate anywhere that’s safe and comfortable — from your bed, on your porch, even during your afternoon stroll. The setting of your meditation practice is less important than your commitment to the practice itself. So if you can’t find a perfectly quiet spot to meditate, don’t let that limit your practice.
Remember, the aim of meditation is not to eliminate all trace of noise. If your external environment is particularly loud, try integrating the sounds into your practice: instead of using the breath as your point of focus, return to the sounds around you.
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