Why you should meditate is a question that keeps coming to me. I feel lucky to be asked such questions, that people are curious in meditation, or they see some change in me and want to know more about it. To each person there’s a different answer, depending on their understanding and their circumstances. Below, however, is a general overview on why you should become a meditater.
Meditation means to concentrated attention on some object of thought or awareness. The Western world seems to see meditation as something either Eastern, Mystical, or Religious. There’s a stigma surrounding the word, which is why I’m very excited to hear people around me raising the topic. Swapping the word Meditation for ‘Sitting’ seems to removes a lot of the stigma and allows us to answer the Why.
We spend so long living in the external world concerned with looks, appears and material, yet we spend no time looking at how we are on the inside. Meditation is the tool used to help address this imbalance by looking at the nature of one’s own mind. By placing the spotlight of attention, or mindfulness on the mind, the mind becomes lighter, without doing anything.
When you meditate, all parts of life benefit. By meditating, when you begin to understand your own nature and your own mind, you’ll begin to live in harmony with your body and mind. When you live in harmony with your mind and body, everything comes together. Some of the sideline benefits of understanding your own nature, your own mind are below. This is not something that happens to 1 in 10, or 1 in 2, but everyone who pays attention to their mind, everyone who looks at how their internal state will get results.
Got your own meditation story, or resources? Leave a comment, let’s help get some of those thinking about meditating into action.
Side Benefits of Meditation
- it helps me to be less headstrong, presumptuous and judgemental.
- increase physical relaxation, mental calmness, and psychological balance
- Development of Intelligence
- Decreasing the aging process and improving the breathing problems
- to come back to something of ourselves
- the only permanent source of tranquility available to human beings
- set the conditions to help us change our habit energy
- the feeling of being connected with everything, and yet, nothing at all.
- give us the confidence to acknowledge our thoughts without being hooked by them
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Thanks for mentioning my article on Meditation, that was very kind of you!
Nice site!
Thanks for the favor by the way!
Meditation is one of the most natural tools that can be used to “know” yourself. It feels great, and it has so many benefits. I love when I can break out of my skin and reach for the stars; it is the best
Lucid
Imagine that your mind is an over-swamped email inbox. For me meditation empties the inbox. And once its shiny and clean and uncluttered life is far more efficient.
Did anybody catch Jundo’s lesson from Treeleaf Zendo, with the jelly jar?
Here is the link for Jundo’s jelly jar talk. Enjoy the lesson & Zazen!!
http://treeleafzen.blogspot.com/2007/05/sit-long-with-jundo-fukanzazengi-xxii_27.html
Hi – I’m enjoying your blog. I found you by following an urbanmonk post. I have meditated. Only recently going to try again. Thinking about doing it tomorrow or next day at the top of a mountain here in Thailand. Nice quiet place I’m hoping. Anyway – I’ll try to write something at the blog about it as it’s going on – depending whether I have internet on the phone or not up there. I’ll subscribe to your RSS feed so I don’t miss your posts.
Vern
I think you’re right. Good site on meditation
Lot of good information on buddhism. Lots of blogs i read but i found this a bit interesting.
The image of monk is very impressive.