The Benefits of Meditation

Meditation techniques elicit reproducible physiological changes including reduced respiratory rates, lowered oxygen consumption, increased skin resistance and coherent brain wave patterns. These changes are consistent with a state of relaxed awareness – the antidote to the stress response.

Daily practice of meditation and relaxation techniques have been found to be beneficial in a number of common health concerns including hypertension, chronic pain, irritable bowel disease, insomnia, anxiety and infertility.

Regular practice of meditation is absolutely essential for anyone who is truly embarking on a spiritual path. Meditation provides a direct route to reaching the Self. From that level, the mind channels its own infinite intelligence to achieve many benefits in all aspects of life. Meditation is one of the most powerful tools there is to help us restore the harmony within and to gain access to our body’s inner intelligence.

Dr. Deepak Chopra’s experience of early life, by most standards, was very comfortable; a happy childhood with loving parents, a good education leading to a successful career and a loving wife and children. He was all set for the American dream. But that’s all it was, a dream, an illusion, a search for happiness in things outside himself. It was not until he discovered meditation that he began to experience the true joy and fulfilment that life has to offer. As he says, “Once I learned to be still, to be simple, to stop struggling, I found that Nature was just waiting to unfold her beauty before me. “Since learning to meditate and setting out on my spiritual journey, the ordinary has become the miraculous, the impossible has become the probable and every intention has become a seed for fulfilment.”

Thousands of people are now meditating with several hundred teachers throughout the world.

Twenty-Five Reasons to Learn to Meditate

1. To reduce stress
2. To restore the memory of wholeness in your life
3. To get in touch with your true self
4. To fulfill all your desires
5. To become more intuitive
6. To give up bad habits
7. To have better relationships
8. To enhance your daily living
9. To reconnect you to Spirit
10. To experience higher states of consciousness
11. To create world peace
12. To sleep better
13. To have more energy
14. To improve concentration
15. To eliminate fatigue
16. To reverse the effects of ageing
17. To improve eating habits
18. To increase sensory perception
19. To experience unconditional love
20. To release toxins from our physiology
21. To become non-judgemental
22. To help make the right choices
23. To lighten up and be carefree
24. To unfold the silence in your life
25. To increase creativity