Meditation

Meditating, by doing exercises, helps you to achieve more and more structural relaxation, peace and quiet attention. And practice makes perfect; the positive effects will become stronger and last longer. Substantial changes are increasingly observable in the brain.

 

Meditation can be more (but not necessary)

You feel connected to, rooted in, an all-pervading 'Greater Reality', which you experience within yourself, but which also transcends it. You become receptive to the transcendent Ground (God, the One, Being) of all things and you root more deeply in that Ground, which is also the Ground of our being.

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Openness to this deeper Reality, for example through meditation sometimes gives joyful and enlightening experiences. Sometimes it also brings out dark sides of yourself and feels anything but enlightenment. However, it can have a healing effect if you pay attention to this part of yourself. As a result, an increasingly deeper unity grows between your conscious self and your deeper Self and a transformation of yourself takes place in the direction of truth, unity and love.

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Body posture and breathing are important when meditating and help the mind to achieve relaxation, silence and attention. 

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Effects of meditation:

There is a lot of research that has proven the positive effects of meditation. In essence, mediation is the exact opposite of stress, physically and mentally. Meditation reduces pain, work stress, anxiety and depression, promotes cardiovascular health, improves cognitive function, lowers blood pressure, reduces alcohol abuse, improves longevity, promotes healthy weight, reduces tension headaches, relieves asthma, regulates blood sugar levels in diabetic patients, relieves PMS , reduces chronic pain, improves immune function and increases quality of life. There is only one letter difference from medication to meditation. 

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You can meditate using a text, an image or in total silence. Just paying attention to the wave movement of breathing can also be sufficient.