WHY MEDITATE? HERE’S WHY.

More than once, I’ve been asked why it’s important to meditate. You may be wondering that too. So let me ask you a few questions. Are you hurried at some point every day? Do you feel you don’t have everything under control? Are you scattered and disorganized in some area of your life? Do you ache for some time just for yourself?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, join the majority of people. Most of us have so many commitments and so many obligations to the family members, workplace, and organizations in our lives that we don’t have any time left for ourselves. Does this sound like you?

Regular meditation for just a few minutes a day will give you the time out you deserve. You can slow down, relax, and allow yourself a little time just for yourself. It is a time for you to forget the troubles of the day and focus your attention inward.

Meditation will help you on several different levels. Let me describe each one for you.

Physical Benefits: Meditation slows your heart rate, stimulates your body’s healing responses, and reduces your risk of heart disease. The physical benefits of meditation are well known. They have been tested and found to be true for everyone who meditates, especially those who meditate often. Because of these physical effects, meditation promotes your longevity.

Psychological Benefits: Meditation reduces your stress and anxiety, improves your decision-making and your ability to focus with greater attention, and increases your creativity and problem-solving ability. Meditating will help you deal more effectively with situations and people in your life. When you are relaxed and open, ideas and understandings will come to you that you hadn’t thought of before. You will see how to deal with others in a new light, and you will start to move beyond old patterns from the past. You are able to learn from past experiences and move on to a new awareness.

Benefits to Your Overall Well-being: Meditation increases your happiness and helps you understand your higher purpose. People who do what they love and love what they do are naturally happy. By allowing yourself to open up to your inner self, your higher self, you will be getting messages and understandings of what you are to do with your life to help yourself and to help others. This is truly important for your inner sense of purpose. Your life may change when you begin to meditate because you will see things you didn’t give yourself the time to see before. Your heart and thoughts will both open to who you are in your deepest self, and you will understand what you are to create and become.

Studies have found that it is most effective to meditate every day for about 15-20 minutes. Quiet yourself, relax your body, and enter into a beautiful space within. You owe it to yourself. You deserve it. You’ve earned it.