Meditation is one of the eight limbs of Yoga. It is a form of mental and spiritual experience that controls your attention and can help you feel more relaxed and at peace. It teaches you to become more aware and more purposeful about your actions.
It not only contributes to maintaining our mental peace but also plays a role in achieving the purpose of our life. Either way, meditation sounds simple, is easy to start, and has lots of benefits.
Some healthcare providers include the benefits of meditation as part of the treatment for both mind and body conditions. It is also a means to improve the quality of life.
Benefits of meditation:
- Enhance physical and emotional well-being.
- Better immune system function
- Increasing self-awareness
- Improving sleep quality
- Controls Anxiety & reduces stress
- Promotes emotional health
- Can generate kindness
- Fights addictions
- Helps control pain
- Builds skills
- Increasing imagination and creativity
- Reduces aging
Meditation is not a technique, but it is a way of living life in the right way. It is to put a stop to your thinking power for a limited time. At the time of meditation and yoga, a person is free from all kinds of thoughts and his attention is focused only on one thing.
Tratak Meditation
Tratak Meditation also called focused meditation, is an attempt to bring concentration using any one of the five senses. While doing this process, the flame of the lamp, candle, or lamp is focused on the focus point. Doing this has a special effect on the visual sense. By meditating in this way, the ability to concentrate increases.
Vipassana Meditation
Through this type of meditation, a person takes himself from negativity to positivity. This is the most important method of meditation. This creates a sense of greater satisfaction towards life in your mind. By doing this mental development happens faster. Breath is used in this process. Vipassana Meditation is more beneficial for those people, who are confused all the time or who have no one to guide them.
Mindfulness Meditation
The literal meaning of Mindfulness means to be conscious or aware of your surroundings. Mindfulness is a method of meditation in which a person can make the thoughts running in his mind clear and firm.
Mindfulness is a mental practice that focuses on the present moment. While the other meditation is to remove the mind from external.