Meditation

Nobody understands the science behind meditation, but its physical and psychological benefits are readily apparent. First, meditation improves the skills of athletes. This is one reason it is customary in the martial arts to include meditation training alongside combat training. How could sitting down and breathing possibly make you a better fighter? Well, it’s scientifically proven to decrease your required oxygen consumption for strenuous exercises, thereby increasing your endurance. It’s proven to increase your blood flow, allowing your muscles to perform more efficiently. It’s proven to decrease muscle tension, allowing your muscles to react faster. Regular meditation has been shown to normalize your weight, so you won’t have wild weight fluctuations anymore. But those are just the physical effects that have been proven. Who’s to say what other effects it may have? After all, monks seem to have found a way to regulate their body temperature and turn on and off certain processes within their body at will.

Outside of the physical benefits, there are a number of psychological benefits to meditation as well. Have you ever heard the Dalai Lama speak? For a man whose religion is persecuted by the Chinese secular government, he always remains cool, collected, and compassionate. It is likely that regular meditation has given him the ability to think faster and react differently to things in his life. Though he is just a man, and probably under great stress, he never shows it and seems rather jovial about life. Meditation builds self-confidence, increases your emotional stability and your control of your emotions, develops your intuition, develops your character, increases your will power, allows you to have a greater tolerance for stress, improves your emotional maturity, and increases your compassion for all living beings.

An article in Psychology Today discusses the scientific study of the benefits of meditation. According to the article, “Neuroscientists have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex – brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. This mental shift decreases the negative effects of stress, mild depression and anxiety. There is also less activity in the amygdala, where the brain processes fear.” Research at Harvard has verified this finding. Researchers found “that it activates the sections of the brain in charge of the autonomic nervous system, which governs the functions in our bodies that we can’t control, such as digestion and blood pressure. These are also the functions that are often compromised by stress. It makes sense, then, that modulating these functions would help to ward off stress-related conditions such as heart disease, digestive problems and infertility.”

Modern science is finally catching up to age-old wisdom. Meditation improves your performance physically, increases your mental clarity and stability, and allows you to reach into parts of yourself that science had previously thought impossible. I hope that everyone will look further into taking up meditation as a means to improve your health, both mentally and physically.

Now you have the opportunity to come and learn meditation. When you visit me you will receive all the knowledge needed to start to meditate and also to experience a guided meditation session. You will also receive a self-guided meditation MP3 file  you can use later on at anytime.

For a limited time my self-guided meditation in MP3 format is available for FREE to download here: GuidedMeditation

Approximately 45min. Rp500,000.