CASPER
THE FRIENDLY GHOST
Daily meditation is an important tool for maintaining your mental, emotional and physical health. Some people are of the misconception that meditation is taking time for reflection and contemplation about your day and life. Although a thought may pop into your mind here and there throughout your rumination practice, the idea is just the opposite. With daily meditation, your aim will be to achieve a clearer mind so you can achieve deeper relaxation and allow your body to focus on healing and revitalizing itself.
Everyone has worries and stresses that dominate their minds, and of course every day is different to the next. On a daily basis you may find you deal with small problems with relative calmness and consideration, but that doesn’t mean tension isn’t building up in your body. Every time you feel that physical reaction in an uncomfortable, unwanted or unpleasant situation, your fight or flight mechanism is activated. Your muscles go on standby, your heart rate increases and adrenalin is released. Day by day it adds up and physical signs will start to appear unless you use daily meditation techniques to alleviate tension and achieve deep relaxation that enables your body to repair. Long term stress contributes to more serious illnesses, and daily meditation is the only effective way to prevent it accumulating to that point.
In taking some time for deliberation, you will be sure to remember many times in your life when you have had small ailments or injuries that have appeared each day you have been highly stressed. Maybe you get a cold or flu, migraines, sore back or neck, loss of appetite, fatigue or anxiety and depression. Either way, the day by day build up of worry and tension can become too much for your body to take, and it will eventually find some way of telling you that you have to take time for rumination. Daily meditation means just that; practicing on a daily basis so you don’t get to the point where you can’t go on because of ill health.
Give some thought to what you would like to get from your daily meditation practice apart from relaxation: Would you like to have more self esteem, confidence, motivation or courage? Do you want to quit smoking or increase your vocabulary and learning abilities? All of these things can be incorporated into your chosen daily meditation techniques, and if you like variety you can do a different one every time depending on what has happened each day. You will soon see benefits such as feeling stronger, healthier, clear-minded and confident, and day after day you will find yourself being more capable in difficult situations.
Anyone who has difficulty sleeping can benefit immensely from daily meditation practices. Listening to a good relaxation or hypnosis track just before you want to fall asleep will pretty much guarantee you will have a deep and dreamy slumber. You can also get daily meditation CD’s designed specifically for insomniacs that have subliminal messages for reprogramming your subconscious to develop normal sleeping patterns.
There are many benefits to taking time every day for relaxation. Each individual is unique in there problems and stresses, but everyone can alleviate them with meditating on a daily basis. Less than half an hour a day is all you need, and without much contemplation you will be on your way to a happier and healthier life.
Everyone has worries and stresses that dominate their minds, and of course every day is different to the next. On a daily basis you may find you deal with small problems with relative calmness and consideration, but that doesn’t mean tension isn’t building up in your body. Every time you feel that physical reaction in an uncomfortable, unwanted or unpleasant situation, your fight or flight mechanism is activated. Your muscles go on standby, your heart rate increases and adrenalin is released. Day by day it adds up and physical signs will start to appear unless you use daily meditation techniques to alleviate tension and achieve deep relaxation that enables your body to repair. Long term stress contributes to more serious illnesses, and daily meditation is the only effective way to prevent it accumulating to that point.
In taking some time for deliberation, you will be sure to remember many times in your life when you have had small ailments or injuries that have appeared each day you have been highly stressed. Maybe you get a cold or flu, migraines, sore back or neck, loss of appetite, fatigue or anxiety and depression. Either way, the day by day build up of worry and tension can become too much for your body to take, and it will eventually find some way of telling you that you have to take time for rumination. Daily meditation means just that; practicing on a daily basis so you don’t get to the point where you can’t go on because of ill health.
Give some thought to what you would like to get from your daily meditation practice apart from relaxation: Would you like to have more self esteem, confidence, motivation or courage? Do you want to quit smoking or increase your vocabulary and learning abilities? All of these things can be incorporated into your chosen daily meditation techniques, and if you like variety you can do a different one every time depending on what has happened each day. You will soon see benefits such as feeling stronger, healthier, clear-minded and confident, and day after day you will find yourself being more capable in difficult situations.
Anyone who has difficulty sleeping can benefit immensely from daily meditation practices. Listening to a good relaxation or hypnosis track just before you want to fall asleep will pretty much guarantee you will have a deep and dreamy slumber. You can also get daily meditation CD’s designed specifically for insomniacs that have subliminal messages for reprogramming your subconscious to develop normal sleeping patterns.
There are many benefits to taking time every day for relaxation. Each individual is unique in there problems and stresses, but everyone can alleviate them with meditating on a daily basis. Less than half an hour a day is all you need, and without much contemplation you will be on your way to a happier and healthier life.