Around forty years ago, when Gurudev used to talk about meditation, people thought it was not for young people, it was for those who had one foot in the grave or those who had nothing to do. But today, beyond any doubt, it has been proved that meditation can help everyone at any age.
Alternate beginning: Are you wondering why you should med
itate? Let’s ask another question, why should you sleep? Why should you study? Why do you want entertainment? Why do you want to be healthy? One can live anyway, have you thought about it? Why do you want to be happy? You can exist anyway, being happy or unhappy.
Add Time to Your Day and Energy to Your Body
What is the need for meditation in today’s society, in today’s life as such? If you look at the benefits that meditation brings into our lives, we feel it is all the more relevant, and all the more needed. In ancient times, meditation was used for enlightenment, for finding the self. And meditation is a way to get rid of misery. You to overcome misery, overcome problems. Meditation has been the way to improve one’s abilities, three things and today living apart, leaving aside enlightenment if you see the social ills of today, the stress and tension, it calls for one to meditate.
More Busy? More Meditation!
The more responsibility you have in your life, the more you need meditation. If you have nothing to do you may not need meditation so much because you have nothing to do. The busier you are, the less time you have, the more work you have, and the more desires and, ambitions you have, all the more you need to be meditating because meditation not only relieves you of stress and strain it enhances your ability to face the challenges and achieve your goals.
Improve Your Relationships
Meditation helps to change your perspective. It improves the way you perceive things. It brings clarity in the mind. It improves your interaction with people around – what you say, how you react and act in different situations, you become more aware.
Become More Attractive
A subtle benefit of mediation is it improves the bio-energy in our body in our system. Have you noticed, that sometimes you meet someone and for no reason you don’t want to talk to them? Whereas with some other people whom you have not met so often, still you feel some sort of closeness with them and you feel comfortable. This is because of the positive energy. Meditation creates positive and harmonious energy around us.
Better Health
A proven benefit is that meditation improves health. There is a lot of research now on how meditation helps with hypertension, diabetes, heart problems, skin problems, nervous system problems and a number of other problems.
From Sound to Silence, Movement to Stillness
Apart from the health benefits, meditation improves concentration. It helps one to be in the present moment. The mind vacillates between the past and the future. We are either angry about the past or anxious about the future, all the time. So meditation helps keep the mind from swinging between the past and the future to be more in the present.
Culture Your Emotions
Emotionally, you feel lighter, softer and purer. You can let go of all the past garbage. It creates positive vibrations around you, influencing your behaviour with others, and others’ behaviour with you. Meditation gives the deepest rest in the shortest time.
Food for the Soul
Meditation is food for the soul; it nurtures the core of your existence. Music is food for emotions; knowledge is food for the intellect; entertainment is food for the mind and meditation is the food for our soul.
Summary
So the benefits of meditation are many. You can say, if you want to be happy and healthy, you need to meditate. It’s that simple.
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