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Meditation is known to improve and sharpen one's internal environment. By internal environment, I mean emotional, mental, spiritual, psychological health. While the modern West has embraced on "curing" any emotional or psychological problems one may have, with potent drugs, the ancient east had always known that the problems we have in the mental and emotional level can only be solved by oneself- by concentrating to the root cause of the problem, and not by masking the problem with mind numbing drugs which may have far too many side effects than the problem that they are supposed to "cure".
I am deliberately putting the word cure under quotations because these modern antipsychotic, anti-stress, anti-anxiety drugs do not cure the root cause of the problem but mask the problem itself by making the sufferer's mind numb. In this deadened state of the mind, the sufferer is not the same person and is reduced to a zombie like state where he/she cannot think normally. Yes, the drugs will make the problems go away temporarily but when the effects of the drugs wear out, the sufferer will be faced with the same problems (in some cases more), than before.
Through meditation we can find a habit for clarity of mind. While there are different kinds of meditation techniques, meditation can be used to relieve and heal oneself from various things including high blood pressure, anxiety, mental trauma, addiction and various other illnesses related to one's mind.
It is widely believed and documented that meditation originated in Ancient India. The earliest of the Hindu scriptures, The Vedas and the Upanishads talk about meditation and its importance. It is also known that Siddhartha Gautama, widely known as The Buddha, became enlightened through meditation.
Meditation and Meditation techniques come in many forms and is done in a variety of different ways. There are two major forms of meditation techniques. One is concentrative meditation, which is perhaps the easier one of the two focuses on the person's breathing or focus on one issue or a mantra/ chant, or an object, a sound, or an image to make his mind more clear and aware of things around him. Concentrative meditation helps one open his mind to the reality behind things and not let his ego cloud his judgment, and it also helps him achieve inner peace and he finds that his body in a more relaxed state.
The other type of meditation technique is called mindfulness meditation. This technique encourages one to pay attention to all that one is feeling but not let those feelings trigger any emotion or thought or judgment. In another words this type of meditation technique encourages one to feel the feelings but feel them remotely.
In another words, it encourages one to view oneself but view oneself in a detached mode sort of like viewing oneself but viewing oneself like we view other people. During this type of meditation the person meditating is very conscious of the thoughts that are crossing his mind but his goal is not to be entangled in the thought by thinking about the same thought over and over again, but to let the thought come, take its course and die in our minds. This type of meditation technique is ideally suitable for people who are obsessed with anything or anyone. The other way for an obsessive person to cure himself is to consciously recognize that his obsessive thoughts do not take him anywhere but hurt him and not think about something else whenever an obsessive thought takes birth in his mind.
Learn more about meditation and practice it to a degree that, it becomes your second nature, thus, you can use it anytime and anywhere to benefit your life.
