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Meditation is an ancient art that has been used successfully for relieving stress. Through meditation we let go of our worries and problems and we put our mind in a calm and relaxed state.
There are many different meditation techniques such as creative visualization, nostril breathing, deep breathing and yoga which can help us release our acumulated stress over time.
It is a fact that we are living in quite busy times that do not give us enough quality time with ourselves and with our family. There is too much pressure to perform at our daily job, too much pressure to bring home the money and too much pressure to keep the peace at home. Through all this we tend to forget about ourselves.
Loving kindness meditation is one that can bring ourselves back from the abyss. It helps us cope with all this stress and helps us learn to love ourselves and others, be it friends or even enemies. By being more positive overall, we learn to take the daily problems in stride, to face them with a better mental attitude, and in turn this attitude is one of the main steps that help de-stress our life.
Of course we can't avoid stress completely, but we learn to cope with it much better than on our own, without the aid of meditation. Basically we learn to bring back our mind and body in perfect balance and harmony. We learn to accept everything as it comes, without judging and being angry or anxious about things that we simply can't control.
Also by practicing meditation, we gain several other benefits that all help us in removing stress even more. We increase our energy and focus, we increase our motivation on doing positive things in our life and we increase our productivity at work.
When it comes to physical benefits of meditation techniques, there are plenty to be offered to us as well. Many people have noticed a significant reduction in their headaches and migraines, along with joint pains and bones and muscle aches. Often stress is simply brought about the severe pains we feel and just by minimizing that strong pain, our minds become calmer and quieter as well. Many things that life throws at us are dealt with easier when we are physically fit.
While all these benefits are great by themselves, they all lead to relieving stress as well. Through practicing meditation we can achieve that, and all we need is a few minutes of our busy schedules every day.
If you can put aside 15-20 minutes each evening (or every morning if you are rather a morning person) you will soon start to see an improvement in the quality of your life.
You will first notice small things, such as being in a better mood right after the meditation, however over time this happier mood will increase to longer periods and eventually you will notice that you are becoming better equipped to deal with life's ups and downs much easier. And this is for many a real goal of meditation.
