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Everyone has experienced a state of deep calm, open
awareness or contentment. Worries disappear, your mind is clear and focused.
This is meditation.
With meditation you can learn to deliberately return to that clear and open
state. You can also learn to relax quickly and effectively, improve
concentration, and cultivate a deep sense of well-being and happiness.
People also practice meditation to :
_ Learn to relax
_ Relieve stress and anxiety
_ Restore health and well-being
_ Develop focus and concentration
_ Develop self awareness and personal growth
_ Enhance creativity
Can meditation help to reduce stress or to manage depression?
Yes. When you are fearful or sad, you can feel consumed by stress or depression.
Meditation helps you to witness your mind, placing your fears and
disappointments in perspective. Fears and disappointments, however vast, are
temporary, like dark clouds in a vast sky. By observing the clouds, you begin to
realize that the clouds are your own thoughts. The thoughts arose from your own
mind. You can experience your own nature as peaceful, calm and quiet, like the
sky on a still day. By paying less attention to your troubling thoughts you can
experience power and peace.
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