The term "meditation" appeared relatively recently, since it was previously believed that it is associated with mystical teachings or religion. Although practicing meditation is a part of yoga and Zen Buddhism, it is possible outside of this connection. So why do people need meditation if they are not worshipers of these religious teachings?
Calm and discretion. By meditating, a person achieves inner peace, he is filled with a sense of completion. By gaining spiritual peace, you can become much more tolerant of your family, relatives and work colleagues. Excessive aggressiveness and irritability go away. A person becomes more reasonable, many spiritual, everyday questions, as well as the ways of their correct solution, become clearer. Concentration of attention. Everyone needs it. Wherever a person is, no matter what problem he solves, he must have the ability to concentrate his attention on the task at hand. This is the only way to resist a restless mind and various extraneous thoughts. Concentration helps to direct the work of the brain into one narrow beam, to a single task. This is not as easy to achieve as it seems. Health. Meditation helps to overcome the daily pressures that each person faces to a greater or lesser extent, as well as to prevent stress. And he is known to cause many diseases. Through meditation, people can lower blood pressure (hypertension), reduce excess tension in the muscles in the back of the head and neck (chronic headaches and migraines), improve respiratory function (asthma and lingering bronchitis), and normalize sleep (physical ailments and nervousness). of people. Communicating with people, a person often hangs labels on them: "fat man", "non-Russian", "baba", etc. Meditation teaches you to take an impartial observer position, abandon categorical assessments, free yourself from cliches and see uniqueness and originality in a person. One of the elements of meditation is silence and listening. Listening to the other, and not yourself, you can see how interesting the interlocutor is and how rich his inner world is. Meditation helps to hear not only what is said, but also what remains unspoken. Perhaps someone will say that he can do all this, and medicine will return his health. Only practice can show the true meaning of meditation for the physical, intellectual, mental and spiritual development of every person.
