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Meditation
Meditation is an ancient practice that dates back thousands of years. Despite its age, this practice is
common worldwide because it benefits brain health and overall well-being. With the help of modern
technology, researchers continue to expand their understanding of how meditation helps people
and why it works.
What is meditation?
Meditation is a practice that involves focusing or clearing your mind using a combination of mental
and physical techniques. Depending on the meditation type, you can meditate to relax, reduce
anxiety and stress, and more. Some people even use meditation to help them improve their health,
such as using it to help adapt to the challenges of quitting tobacco products.
The practice of meditation is thousands of years old, and different forms come from around the
world. However modern science has only studied this practice in detail over the last few decades.
Some of the biggest leaps in science’s understanding of meditation have only been possible thanks
to modern technology.
On the outside, someone who’s meditating might not seem to be doing anything other than
breathing or repeating a sound or phrase over and over.
Is meditation a religious practice?
Yes and no. Meditation has foundations in ancient Sanatan dharma the oldest religion in the world,
but you don’t have to be religious to meditate
How do you meditate?
There’s no one correct way to meditate. That’s because meditation can take many different forms. Experts have analyzed meditation practices and found that some common processes happen across different meditation forms. These are:
• Body-centered meditation. This is sometimes called self-scanning. Doing this involves
focusing on the physical sensations you can feel throughout your body.
• Contemplation. This usually involves concentrating on a question or some kind of
contradiction without letting your mind wander.
• Emotion-centered meditation. This kind of meditation has you focus on a specific emotion.
For example, focusing on how to be kind to others or on what makes you happy in your life.
• Mantra meditation. This kind of meditation involves repeating (either aloud or in your head)
and focusing on a specific phrase or sound.
• Meditation with movement. This type of meditation can involve focusing on breathing,
holding your breath or performing specific body movements. It can also involve walking while
focusing on what you observe around you.
• Mindfulness meditation. This form of meditation is about staying aware of what’s happening
at the moment rather than letting your mind wander and worrying about the past or future. It can
also involve a similar approach as body-centered meditation, using what you feel throughout your
body as a foundation for your awareness of the world around you.
• Visual-based meditation. This kind of meditation involves focusing on something you can see
(either with your eyes or by concentrating on a mental image).
What exactly does meditation do?
In general, people who meditate are more likely to see the following benefits:
• Decreased symptoms of anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
• Improved ability to think, concentrate and solve problems.
• Better ability to adapt to and overcome emotional problems
Because mental health has a strong impact on the health of your body, those benefits also often
bring improvements in how well you sleep, high blood pressure and heart function, and much more
Why does meditation work?
Thanks to advances in technology, researchers and healthcare providers can see how meditation
affects your brain. However, to understand some of these changes, it helps to know a little about
brain structure.
In your brain, you have billions of neurons, which are cells that use electrical and chemical signals to
send signals to each other. One neuron connects to thousands of others, which is how your neurons
form networks across different parts of your brain. Those networks form different areas of your
brain, which have different jobs and specialties.
Multiple research studies have found that people who meditate regularly have certain differences in
their brain structure. Those changes usually involve brain tissue that’s denser or certain areas of the
brain that are larger than expected, which is a sign that the neurons there have more connections to
each other and the connections are stronger.
The affected areas of the brain are usually those that manage or control your senses (vision, hearing,
etc.), your ability to think and concentrate, and your ability to process emotions. That means the
brains of people who meditate regularly are healthier and less likely to show age-related loss of
function. They also have a stronger ability to deal with and process negative emotions like fear,
anger and grief.
How do I start daily meditation?
With so many different types of meditation to choose from, it can be hard to know which meditation
you will like best or which will be most helpful to you. Luckily, there are lots of ways to reduce this.
For this, you can learn meditation by joining our Urja Dham Foundation. Our method of meditation is
ancient or accurate. By meditating with us you will feel the energy palpable. The experience of
meditating during the wonderful time of Brahma Muhurta is a supernatural experience which every
seeker must definitely do.
You learn many types of meditation and its nuances in this Dham of ours. Guru Ji also teaches
initiation into Kriya Yoga, which you will not get to read in any book. Besides explaining the
importance of Guru-Shishya tradition, you are introduced to the wonderful world of meditation
