sit and achieve nothing- meditate

Our students practice meditation in the classroom. Why meditate? Meditation helps in many ways. It helps boost the immune system, reduces stress, and also rewires the brain. Our brain needs rewiring as we have been made to believe that being Super-humans isn’t possible. Meditation can help us fix what we snapped and break loose in our systems. Meditation also alleviates anxiety and depression. It increases creativity and helps one become more compassionate and understanding. Meditation helps one to relax and focus which is necessary for better learning.

Many have attested to the healing power of meditation, the healing power of the "prana" we get during meditation. Today's Science has recognized how effective meditation could be for healing the body and the mind. It has now been recommended by many doctors and community healers for stress related conditions; heart conditions, chronic pains and even in combating cancer. There are many acclaimed physiological changes during meditation. Many things happen when we quiet the mind, when we become observers to the rhythm of the universe, and when we experience the void. Meditation prevents the “fight or flight” response of a person and the cortisol's effect of survival of the fittest. It brings a person to a calmer state of being. Research showed improved heart rate to patients with heart conditions and also shifts the brain waves of a person to keep him in a better and agreeable gist. With enough practice, the neurons in the brain may adapt themselves to a more direct activity in the frontal lobe of the brain, which is the control deck of our ability to communicate and of our personality, which makes a person more aware of the present moment, and being able to be in that present moment is no doubt the only actual reality.

So how to meditate? There are many different ways to meditate. Some techniques would easily work for others but might be difficult to achieve for some. Then once I asked a beautiful soul, what do you want to achieve in your meditation? His response being, and if I could quote him correctly, he said, "See, that's the weirdest thing when some people ask what to achieve during meditation. It's when you meditate that you want to not achieve anything and be nothing because trying to achieve something during meditation defeats its purpose. You aren't meditating after all." So again how to meditate? :) Here's what I do. I simply sit in my most comfortable position with eyes closed for 30 minutes to hours, and actively concentrate on my breathing, breathing in and breathing out feeling the breath. Concentrating on the pineal or putting the concentration on the chakras, the body's energy points are also effective means. One could also let positive thoughts flow or listen to a calming music, or to a healing frequency sound. Simply focus on the present over the past or the future.

Meditation has a number of proven benefits, and the biggest one is just having a?greater mastery of the mind. Inviting peace and calm into your being. Allow meditation to remind you of the light that shines within?you, yes because there is that light,?the beauty in everything around you, the perfectness of the creation among you, and the vastness of the universe in you and outside of you.?In this way, you will have more access to a more fulfilling content life, and achieve that state of?oneness within yourself. You will gain acceptance within yourself- no guilt, and feel pure contentment and a unique feeling of bliss.

The more meditation we do, the better being we become.