Meditation can be expressed as a practice to focus on one spoken discourse or thought thereby changing your perspectives, emotional control, sensitivity, approach etc. towards that particular line of thought in your life. Benefits of meditation are immense and in many ways miraculous. It is one practice that you would like to inculcate in your life to bring about not just peace and happiness but also some very important changes.

a. Stability: Meditation offers a unique peace of mind that can be derived from nowhere else. It helps you remain calm irrespective of strolling through a storm and can help you immensely in making sound decisions in your life. Perspective and objectivity in times of vulnerability are most sought after and meditation can help you receive just that.

b. Control: Discipline is extremely important in becoming successful and a better person in the eyes of the world. When others absolutely let-go, winners know how to use their controlling-powers productively. Such a lifestyle can only come from a certain level of self-restraint. Physical control is easier to achieve although what needs to be mastered is emotional control. This does not mean you have to be mellow or dull or passive; it just means you become relatively sure of what it is that you need in life at a particular point of time and of the little sacrifices that you need to make to receive desired end-results. Meditation is extremely important to practice such healthy self-control.

c. When You Are Not Meditating: Meditation is not about the few minutes you spare yourself to give-in to your inner thoughts, it is a lifestyle. Desborders et al. (2012) scanned the brains of people taking part in an 8-week meditation program, before and after the course. While they were scanned, participants looked at pictures designed to elicit positive, negative and neutral emotional responses.

After the meditation course, activation in the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain, was reduced to all pictures. This suggests that meditation provides with lasting benefits even when you are not meditating. Lakhs of people have learnt how to live a desired life effortlessly by doing ‘Power meditation’ in Sneh Desai’s ‘Change Your Life’ workshop.

d. Open Mindedness: We very easily see the repercussion of not being able to look at a particular situation from someone else’s point of view. This is because we lack an open mind and give in to judgments very easily which in turn causes a lot of distress in our relationships- both personally and professionally. Everyone, irrespective of whether you know their story or not, is battling his/her own demons. A constant practice of meditation helps you to battle your inner-grudges and become more gracious and compassionate towards yourself first hence enabling a higher level of emotional intelligence to be kind and understanding of others as well without them having to tell you anything specific about their problems.

e. Health Benefits: Meditation has numerous health & physiological benefits as well. It helps to slow the heart rate, increases blood flow, leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation, decreases muscle tension, enhances energy and vigor, promotes higher skin resistance, decreases the aging process, improves flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing, cures headache and migraine, relaxes the nervous system, boosts our immunity levels, improves communication between the two brain hemispheres; to name a few! Learn health secrets and treatments in Sneh Desai’s Ultimate Life workshop where you spend one whole day in learning how to be young forever.

f. Psychological Benefits: Delving deeper into the aforesaid ‘open mindedness’, meditation has a lot more to add onto our psychological health. It helps to build self-confidence, resolves phobia and fears, helps control unproductive/casual thoughts, results in improved concentration, increases creativity, improves our learning ability and memory, develops intuition, helps ignore petty issues, purifies our character, develops will power, promotes higher intelligence growth rate, ensures less aggressiveness, helps curbing bad habits like alcohol addiction etc., develops emotional maturity. Overall it helps to grow a stable and balanced personality.

g. Spiritual Benefits: Meditation provides great assistance in visualization and self-actualization. It helps in the growth of profound wisdom by bringing the body, mind and spirit in harmony; thereby helping you to accept yourself despite your imperfections. It helps you to forgive and forget easily instead of holding onto deep-rooted grudges. You can watch an eye-opening DVD ‘Spiritual Reality’ where you will understand innumerable spiritual benefits of meditation and learn how to do meditation correctly.

h. Changes brain-waves: A lot of scientific research has gone into this conclusive proof. Meditation is such a powerful technique that, after only 8 weeks, the brain’s structure changes. By practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life. It opens up your mind quite literally and for the better.

i. Reach the Metaphysical: Our imagination is limited to a great extent because of our inhibitions pertaining to our present reality. However, if we practice meditation on a daily basis, we can reach the metaphysics. And the best part is we don’t even have to get into the technicalities of it! Everything that seems abstract to us now can be within our reach and can help us practice visualization of a completely different level. It can familiarize us to what we think is impossible or out of our reach. It does not matter from where you hail; what is of utmost importance is where you want to be!

j. Create: The aforesaid point makes it very clear that what the mind can perceive the heart (with its ability to pour emotions into) can achieve. Feelings are of grave significance if you want to make your dreams a reality. Visualization through meditation is incomplete without feelings of fulfillment. Once the brain accustoms itself to such a powerful technique of imagination and actualization, success is not far away, no matter who you are! All that you see can be created and given to you while you persevere through life. And all this is only possible through active meditation.
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