Meditation Not Zoning

Meditation is an old practice of training your mind to focus and shift your thoughts in a positive direction. People used to link meditation with eastern religious traditions, and focused prayer time is a form of meditation. Today, as people become more aware of its benefits, they make it a part of their daily routine regardless of their religious preferences. This practice helps you in nourishing your mental capabilities. I even use the mindfulness app on my Apple Watch to make sure I get my Kickstarter prayer said.

Many people believe that in meditation, it is mandatory to empty your mind of all thoughts. This is not true. The human mind can never be emptied. Emphasizing too much on not thinking about anything makes you even more stressed and exhausted. Meditation is all about relaxing your mind. It’s about breathing in the positive energy and breathing out the negative energy. This is when your mind is free to create new ideas or find a solution to a problem you have been trying to solve for a while.

Most of us are habitual in multitasking. We spend our entire day doing different things simultaneously. This practice has a direct negative impact on our ability to concentrate. If we don’t practice how to focus, we make it more difficult to accomplish tasks required to gain a goal. Especially in this technological era where we are excessively attentive to social media, video streaming, and texting. We can’t fully concentrate on our daily tasks because we are tempted to check our notifications and comments or push out a post. Instead of practicing how to concentrate, we are practicing distraction. Eventually, we lose the ability to perform at high levels in any activity.

Meditation is one way to practice focus and concentration. It’s a solution to this problem that has crept into many people’s daily habits. Mediation lets you forget worldly affairs for some time and concentrate on yourself only. With regular practice, you will notice that your concentration and attention improve to a great extent. Humans today are not aware of their true powers; they let their bodies control their minds. Meditation helps you in reversing this process, opening up your mind and enabling it to control your actions.

People become addicted to alcohol, drugs, vaping, and food because they have little or no control over their minds or body. Meditation increases your self-control. People start using addictive substances because they are stressed or depressed about some aspect of their life, and they want to relax their minds thinking these activities do that for them. In actuality, they make it even harder to relax. Instead of taking a fifteen-minute smoke break, try a meditation moment.

Meditation is a heavenly way of relaxing your mind. When your mind is relaxed, you gain control over your body and emotions, helping to suppress your desire to eat or partake of these substances. When we are stressed out, we don’t breathe properly. As a result, less oxygen is absorbed into our bloodstream allowing toxic substances to build up within our organs. This not only blocks the efficient function of our body but it leads to their deterioration.

A huge part of meditation is all about mastering your breathing. When you focus on breathing in deeply and purposely exhaling out, you exhale not only the harmful toxins from your body but also any negativity you may be feeling flows out of your mind as well. Regular practice can improve your cardiac health to a great extent.

David Lynch is an American filmmaker, director, and artist. He is known for practicing meditation, and he says he has been doing it since 1973 without missing it for a single day.

“When I had my first meditation, this inner bliss revealed itself so powerfully — thick happiness came rushing in. And I said, ‘This is it.’ There it was. And everything just got better and better.”

David had suffered from anger and depression throughout his early film career. His younger sister suggested he look into meditation, and that simple daily activity completely transformed his life. Within two weeks of practicing meditation, his anger was lifted away. David says,

“It just keeps on growing. I think the ability to catch ideas grows, and the enjoyment of doing almost anything grows. An awareness, a clarity grows. A bigger picture starts to form—bigger and bigger. And you seem to know certain things more and understanding starts to grow more and more. And people seem familiar. Everybody starts looking pretty good. The world starts looking better.”

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