There is still a lot to be revealed regarding the power of meditation to relax your mind, body and soul. You just need to look at the ability of meditation to soothe your body mechanism from a different point of view. Moreover, meditation also helps you to bring peaceful sensation to your mind. However, you must remember that it will take quiet a long practice to reap the real benefit of mediation for relaxation.
Within a few days of practice, the benefit that will be evident to you is a body mechanism that is more relaxed and flexible. Such result is evident firstly because you need to take deep breath at the time of meditation. Breathing deep has the benefit of supplying more oxygen to your tensed muscles. Moreover, every time you take a deep breath, you fill your lungs with higher amount of oxygen than you usually inhale. As a result, your blood stream is flooded with oxygen that helps a healthy supply of energy throughout you body. You also sit calm at the time of meditation and consume less oxygen than your normal rate. In this way, meditation facilitates a better body metabolism that eventually helps to achieve an internal hormonal balance.
After the body is adjusted to the rejuvenated source of refreshing energy, you can also feel some changes in your mental well being. Concentration is at the core of meditation. When you meditate, you need to focus on something that is usually a positive thought or picture or whatsoever. To put differently, you withdraw your mind from your existing thoughts which are the main causes of your stress. So, in a way, meditation directly releases your stress. As you begin to have a better blood circulation and hormonal balance, your sensory organs also begin to function in a better way. Lastly, all these changes will automatically bring in a physical condition that will enhance your experience of sound and soothing sleep.
Overall, by practicing meditation regularly, by converting your mind more towards your inner self, you enhance your feeling of self-consciousness. Being more self conscious means the improved ability to think more about you in a positive manner. Positive thinking is something that will lead you to a positive outcome. If your life is full of positive things, there is obviously no reason to be stressed out. As your perspective about everything turns positive day by day, you begin to feel more tied up with the people around you. You will then be blessed with meaningful relationships within your family as well as in the community you belong to. In a few days, you will notice a positive change in others attitude towards you.
It is the total and lasting relaxation that we always dream of. Medicines can provide you some transient physical relaxation. Drugs can numb your mind. All these external factors give you just an illusion of what relaxation truly is. However, if you are after a wholesome mental, physical and social relaxation that lasts a lifetime, you must choose the path of meditation.
About the Author:
Auklesh Roy is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has 5 years working experience in teaching ESL courses in Bangladesh. His involvement in a Theater Group gave him sheer insight about life. He also played flute and guitar in a musical band. He practices meditation since 1997.
