Meditation

“Meditation fuses your inner and outer selves, making you one with your body. It allows you to receive and experience the Divine Presence.”

“ निर्विकार: परस्त्वात्मा सत्त्वभूतगुणेन्द्रियै: |
चैतन्ये कारणं नित्यो द्रष्टा पश्यति हि क्रिया: || च. सू. १ -५६ ”

“ सत्वंमात्मा शरीरं च त्रयमेतत त्रिदंडवत |
लोकस्तिष्ठति संयोगात तत्र प्रतिष्ठितम || च. सू. १-४६”

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Meditation brings with itself several health and wellness benefits. It helps you in sleeping better and also helps in keeping your stress and worries at bay. Meditation can spur endorphins release in your blood stream, which will make you calmer and happier.
We often hear the term mind/body used in various wellness, medical and healing platforms. What this means is that there – are powerful and complex interactions that take place between our thoughts, our bodies and the outside world and these factors can directly impact our health. Our thoughts, feelings emotions and attitudes can affect the health of our body and our physical body (what we eat, our posture, and how we move) can positively or negatively affect our mental and emotional states.
Simply put, the body can affect the mind and the mind can impact the body. Meditation, a practice of focused awareness, is a mind/body technique that can mitigate the effects of stress on our bodies by bringing calm to our bodies through calming our minds. A number of changes in brain structure and neurotransmitter have been related to meditation. Mindfulness practice enhances mind body Healing. The anterior cingulate cortex is the region associated with attention in which changes in activity and/or structure in response to meditation are most consistently reported.

Benefits of meditation closely resemble and often overlap with the benefits of deep breathing and exercise. Some benefits of meditation include: