Why You Should MEDITATE? Guide For Beginners!

How to Meditate?
I honestly feel that even from a health and fitness perspective meditation is important.
Meditation can turn your life around. Meditation has a very crucial part to play in that journey of you reaching your maximum potential. A lot of successful people all over the world like Steve Jobs, Hugh Jackman and even Shane Watson have talented meditation to enhance the rest of their life. Shane Watson, one of cricket's greatest all-rounders in the modern era, has said that towards the end of his career meditation is has been cope with injury and muscle recovery.

Which are just a few of the benefits of meditation? 
A recent study done is UCLA show that people who meditate have a higher level of gyrification in your brain. Gyrification means the folds in the cortex of your brain and these enhance the amount of folds linked with faster processing power. You're essentially becoming smarter, and your brains are growing faster and more active through meditation. Long-term meditation has linked with more gyrification. The more you meditate, the more your gyrification and the more processing power.
So mainly, you can think of meditation as some brain workout where you're enhancing the power of your brain by just meditating for 10-20 minutes a day.
They've also been studies that show that meditation changes certain parts of your brain. It increases the size of those parts that are linked with happiness, ability to learn, to memorize and to focus. Meditation has also been linked to decrease those areas that are linked with depression and stress. Radically you're just enhancing your overall state of being through something as simple as meditation.

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How do you go about meditation?
The first thing you need to understand is that everyone's got their definitions of what meditation is, it's a very subjective concept. How to go about this process and I do promise you is that if you follow the guidelines I'm sitting down it will make a difference to your life. The theoretical definition of meditation is that it's a disconnect. People say that when you meditate, you're just super disconnected from your real-life. Don't think of too many things you're just supposed to concentrate on your breath, which for the average person is kind of hard to do. You can't just sit in one place and meditate and disconnect from everything else. You're going to have a lot of other thoughts in your head. What you need to understand is that this is entirely normal; it's human nature.

A Step-by-Step Guide of 
How to meditate and try minimizing these thoughts in your head?
You have to sit down in a quiet place ideally in complete darkness, and you fold your legs sit cross-legged, and you keep your arms comfortable. You can even sit down on a chair if you find that comfortable and then you can begin your meditation process.

Mindfulness meditation is essentially you taking a deep breath, you inhale completely and exhale. All you do to concentrate on is your breath, and you do this for about 20 minutes. The trick here is to avoid thinking about twenty other things; you've consciously tried to focus and do this for 20 minutes every single day. If 20 minutes seems like a lot, you can start by doing it for about 10 minutes a day. But the key is to get yourself to do this. Every time you open your eyes after meditation session promise you, you'll be a lot calmer, and the world will feel different. The above was completely about mindfulness meditation where you focus on a single thing and distract yourself from every other thought and in this case, it's your breath.  I've observed people couldn't go about doing mindfulness meditation as a beginner.

The meditation that I practice and recommend to other people is something called aum chanting meditation. This has nothing to do with Hinduism or God or religion. What you got to understand is that aum is a real distraction for your mind. When you're chanting aum, it's that same destruction that has you disconnect from your real life. You just got to sit in a comfortable place ideally in complete darkness and take a deep breath and let out aum, for 75% of your breath you're going to chant the "au", and for 25% of the breath you are going to chant the "m".
Don't worry too much about the technique; it's not about how you sit or how you chant. It's just about getting yourselves to chanting aum every single day that was going to make a difference. You know when you go to the gym, and you just get disconnected from life, and you feel great after the gym. Thanks to all those feel-good hormones meditation is just another way of releasing all those feel-good hormones after a point of you make it a habit become your disconnect it becomes a source of recreation, and that's where you want to reach.

Create a habit push yourself to meditate and make you meditate for at least 10 to 20 minutes every single day.

Studies About MEDITATION --  ~ CLICK ON THE TOPIC TO OPEN ~ 

• Physically changes your brain: 2011, harvard, led by dr Sara Lazer.
• Helps you manage stress and decrease side effects of stress: Study in 2004 (Sharma)
• Meditation reducing anxiety symptoms: 2014, Elizabeth Hoge.
• Benson henry institute of mind body medicine, boston: 3 months of meditation helps decrease blood pressure in hypertension patients.
• 2010 Elizabeth blackburn: genetic effects of meditation: helps slow down aging.
• 2004 Dr Richard Davidson: meditation makes you happier.
• 2008 Journal of Personality and Social psychology by Prof Barbara Fredrickson. Meditation produced positive emotions which increased on a daily basis practice.

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