Meditation CDs

We easily admit that the body needs exercise to function optimally but what about our mind? Does it stay healthy without any sort of exercise?

In the same way , the mind needs practicing meditation to maintain his sanity.

The body needs movement, the mind needs stillness

In his book , affirms: “Movement is good for the body, stillness is good for the mind“.

It’s a perfect summary of how we should respectively treat the body and the mind in an optimum health perspective.

You must decide to spend deliberate time in introspection to give your mind the opportunity to rest and expand. Continuous assaults of external stressors and uninterrupted toxic thinking patterns are obstacles you should fight against to allow stillness to occur.

As wrote H.D. Thoreau: “I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

With the meditation practice, you offer your mind a particular time frame in which it can freely develop and fully express its unbiased nature.

Many human beings are so far disconnected from this genuine character of mind that they can’t ever imagine it exists. It’s shame because the mental world it uncovers is devoid of fears, anxieties and other mental health disorders that are too common.

Meditation is the path towards love and compassion

The benefits of meditation are vast but unfortunately too often overlooked; not only the practice of meditation acts as a purge of all harmful and unnecessary thoughts, but also it allows the practitioner to make peace with himself.

Indeed, meditation is the first step towards more self-compassion, love and confidence because it reveals you have the strength to resist bravely to deadly assaults from the thinking mind.

You understand that you are stronger than your thoughts, and they eventually appear aimless and childish.

You apprehend that you have total control over these thoughts, and consequently that you can shape the world the way you want. You realize that the world where you live is the one you build with the power of your thoughts.

Domesticating the mind is a discipline

In our daily life, stillness and presence should be a more natural state of being. Instead of always seeking stimulations, concerns to be worried about, we could domesticate our mind and dictate how it must behave. The constant drama we maintain in our mind by an uninterrupted flow of negative thoughts is just an illusion we don’t succeed to get rid of because of lack of spiritual practice and awareness.

In the same way a non-exercised body inevitably decays, a mind on which we don’t apply discipline, letting all toxic fantasies, noxious thoughts, and dramas settle in and thrive, is a mind on a sure path to mental illnesses, depression, phobias, anxiety, etc.

As every athlete knows, the body needs a lot of rest between sessions of exertion to recover. In our modern world, many people neglect to stimulate physically their body but abuse their mind by utilizing their intellect for extended periods of time without proper rest. They believe they can make use of it all along the day without a break, letting it at the mercy of improper images, sounds, and speeches they consume on the Medias (the internet, television, advertisements, etc.).

In his quest for more peace, our mind can find relief in the silence of meditation.

Meditation has physical impacts on brain structure that can benefit your self-control

Recently, neuroscientists have given a physiological explanation of the benefits of meditation. In her book , Kelly Mc Gonigal writes:

Some parts of the brain grow denser, packing in more gray matter like a muscle bulking up from exercise

In regard to meditation she writes:

Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, its get better not just at meditating, but a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control and self-awareness… Regular meditators have more gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, as well as regions of the brain that support self-awareness … Meditation increases blood flow to the prefrontal cortex, in much the same way that lifting weights increases blood flow to your muscles.

This growth of gray matter has a direct impact on our behaviors, and especially on the amount of self-control and willpower we express in particular conditions. For example, it can serve at fighting an addiction or at by making us reacting differently at cravings, and eventually it changes profoundly our habits.

Practice meditation to attain peak mental health

The practice of meditation operates as the battery recharge of our smartphones. Paradoxically we give these technological objects the privilege to reload from time to time, but when we have depleted our mind resources, we don’t offer it the same gentle and necessary treatment.

One of the main problems with meditation is that it appears useless, not worth the time it takes to practice. But is it worth using the same amount of time watching television?

Many people link meditation with laziness when, in fact, it is the total opposite: it requires hard work, rigor, discipline and commitment to master.

Meditation is an old invaluable practice. In our modern society, all things seem buyable, obtainable easily and rapidly with money. Meditation appears absurd, stupid to many people because in no way it resembles the consumer goods they are used to deal with, things labeled with a fixed price when meditation is priceless.

Meditation is a capacity to develop days after days, months after months, years after years. Every serious practitioner affirms it takes more than ten years to become a good meditator.

When you begin meditation, you must start slowly, just a few minutes at a time for each session.

You must be aware it is not a leisurely activity. It is an exercise to awaken the mind, to bring your mental health at his peak, to become a human being thriving in a life that deserves we take care of it in a holistic approach, neglecting neither physical nor mental side of the optimum healthy life equation.

Do you practice meditation and does it enhance your quality of life? Did you try but fail at keeping the pace of a regular practice? Let comments and share the post on your social networks. Meditate and be happy!

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