Meditation to Improve your Mental Health

Meditating is essential to keep the balance between positive and negative emotions, without becoming invested in one emotion. Negative thinking is harmless until you lose control of your own mind. The goal of meditation is to remain calm and gain inner peace, which can improve your overall mental health.

“Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. If you put water in a cup. It becomes a cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend”

– Bruce Lee–

What is Meditation?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not many people know what meditation is or how it works. Some, for example, believe that meditation is having no thought- in other words, imagining the mind as the sky and clouds as thoughts. The more clouds you have in your sky, the less focus and concentration you have.

The ideology behind meditation is to focus on something that will always be with you and forever there from life to death, your breath. One thing to remember is to acknowledge thoughts and let them go, thereby achieving a better being of calmness and soothing your body, mind and spirit.

Meditation normally involves you focusing on breathing, a burning candle, or a wall to clear your mind of unnecessary thoughts. There are many meditation types, one popular is mindfulness meditation, which involves being in the present and allowing the feelings and thoughts to flow without judgement.

What are the Benefits of Meditation?

 

Meditation can be an integral part of a healthy lifestyle. Practising daily meditation has several pieces of evidence benefits:

• Better Sleep: Lack of sleep is a problem for all ages. Meditation helps remedy that by clearing your mind and relaxing your muscle, to make your mind easier to drift off.
• Improved Mental Health: Daily meditation reduces symptoms of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem.
• Improved Self Awareness: Sometimes, we get lost in negative behaviours or self-defeating thoughts. Daily meditation gives you better control of your thoughts and gives you the “choice” to keep or release the thoughts. Regardless, of if they are positive or negative
• Stress reduction: Regular meditation was effective in reducing stress, and you can get all benefits from 10-mins meditation
• Reduction in anxiety-related symptoms: Regular meditation can reduce your symptoms of anxiety or obsessive thoughts, this is because your mind is calm and avoid thoughts.

How Do I Meditate?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mediating is not difficult but can be at the start. Moreover, you are under the impression that you need not have any thoughts. Here are 4 easy steps on how you can meditate.

1. Find yourself a chair or sit on the floor, anywhere comfortable and relaxing.
2. Sit down and make yourself comfortable and at ease, with the position you’re in.
3. Close your eyes and take a deep breath in and out, don’t worry about the variables. Take as long as you like.
4. Breathe in and feel the sensation. The next step, breathe out and feel the sensation. If your thoughts arise, don’t dismiss them or have any judgement of them. Just acknowledge them and go back to your breath.
5. Meditate for at least 10-mins to find your inner peace and monk-like awareness

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