Meditation refers to a family of self-regulation practices that focus on training attention and awareness in order to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control and thereby foster general mental well-being and development and/or specific capacities such as calm, clarity, and concentration.
It is the only tool that can aid a person to return to innocence.
Emotions should not be suppressed. Meditation helps to sublime the emotions and also helps an individual to overcome emotions to facilitate a calm peaceful mind and a healthy and stress free body.
With increase in the number of people who are clam, peaceful and healthy will facilitate a social transformation, enabling a society that is trusting, happy and content.
What are the different kinds of meditation?
Omkara meditation (Concentrative meditation)- A practitioner can focus intensively on one object
Mindfulness meditation- A practitioner can focus intensively on all mental events that enter the field of awareness.
Cyclic meditation- This includes a combination of practices of asanas and relaxation technique in a specific manner which helps to develop awareness.
I am technique- This includes combination of breathing pattern and pranayamas
Twin heart meditation- Meditating on chakras
How it benefits for me?
Bodily Benefits – Lower Blood Pressure, lowers the levels of blood lactate, improves the immune system, increases body vitality, controls insomnia and increases overall health of the body
Mental Benefits – Emotional stability, anxiety decreases, anger reduces, happiness increases, and intuition develops clarity and peace of mind, induces ability to focus, reduces tension and fear.
Spiritual Growth – Consciousness evolves, meditation brings harmony in creation, personal transformation, realization of self.
How it benefits for society?
Violence Free Society – Meditation develops happiness, contentment and calmness. When increasing number of people practice meditation, it has a calming effect on the environment. This is a potent way to achieve a violence free society.
Value Based Society – The effects of meditation include happiness, respect for the environment and others, appreciation of diversity in nature, a strong sense of social values. These qualities an individual level, helps develop a value based social system.
Trusting, Happy and Content Society – These are the objectives of any society. Meditation empowers a society to achieve these qualities.
