• Meditation •

What is meditation?

Meditation can be defined as a set of techniques that are intended to encourage a state of awareness and focused attention.
It is also a consciousness-changing technique that has been shown to have a wide number of benefits on psychological well-being.
Meditating is not about eliminating your thoughts, it’s about learning to watch them without judgment and maybe understand them. It’s about training the mind and having a healthy perspective of the reality.
It has been practiced in cultures all over the world for thousands of years and some archaeologists date meditation back to as early as 5,000 BCE, and the practice itself has religious ties in ancient Egypt and China, as well as Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism.
There are many different types of meditation, a few a them are mindfulness meditation, spiritual meditation, zen meditation, focused meditation, mantra meditation and many other.

Meditation can provide a number of benefits, such as

• Helping you deal with stress
• Helping with symptoms of anxiety and depression
• Improving self-awareness
• Improving immunity
• Increased focus
• Incresed memory
• Increased creativity
• Finding emotional balance
• Focusing on the present

Have you ever meditated?