Stress Relief through Meditation
Posted by: yonaturals in UncategorizedWe would like to take a break from our regularly scheduled healthy vending programing and bring your attention to your overall spiritual wellbeing, which is just as important as nutrition in many ways.
Today, our world is so bright, flashing and noisy - a plethora of unwanted, unsolicited and intrusive messages and images our flooding our neurons causing extreme over stimulation of the brain cells. We can’t handle this. We’re not supposed to handle this. This is not natural. It is not conducive to the way in which our brains are organized. As extremely complex and miraculous machines, they are adaptable but not to a level such as we have forced it. The receptor neurons cannot regulate nor change in order to handle and compartmentalize this chaotic disaster we call modern life.
This being said, the alarming millions of Americans depending on psychotropics such as, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety’s, mood stabilizers, prescription narcotics, legal drugs such as alcohol, caffeine and nicotine and the entire range of illegal drugs, give us a glaringly obvious clue that there is a problem.
For every problem, there is a solution. Meditation is a step into a new world, one where today’s world disappears. When we learn the relaxation, deepening and protection techniques with faithful practice and willingness, we may be freed from this overload. We may be freed from dependence on substances that we use simply to function. With an open mind and a true desire for relief, anything is achievable.
Meditation tends to scare many people. Why is this? I think it is because they erroneously believe that meditation is a practice that must be done in some yoga position during which one achieves pure nothingness. How in the world, especially this world can we possibly empty our minds or live up to an expectation that seems so remote an attainment that we balk at beginning?
We don’t need to balk once we learn that there are many methods of meditation and you can find one that works for you. They all produce health benefits. If you are new at meditation or have tried it and believe it can’t work for you, then don’t despair. Only the smallest amount of time and patience is needed to achieve results that will change your life and even the world around you.
Relax. Find a quiet place and a few minutes, before going to bed, or upon wakening are sometimes the only time we can find. You can lie down, sit up, that’s not important, as long as you’re comfortable. You can also grab a few minutes in the car before or after work. Doing it in the car, after a long day at work, before you drive home is nice because then you return to home life rested and relaxed instead of stressed and feeling crazy which will only be expressed towards your family or friends.
Every day find those few minutes and say to yourself that you are relaxing, and releasing tension with every breath you take, breathe deep and affirm to yourself that with every breath, you are becoming more and more relaxed and all the tension is flowing out of your body. You will feel different. You will feel better.
Clarity of mind and calmness are uncovered through this natural method of releasing your body’s own ability to relieve itself of stress. The attainment of the goals you desire will also evolve into your life as joy, success, contentment and bounties indescribable.