Meditation : Building skills to manage your stress.
In the recent years, scientists and doctors have shown interest in the effects that meditation has in people going through various situations. Infact, prestigious universities such as Harvard and Washington have invested their efforts in the research and have also come out with positive results. Meditation not only helps reduce the negative effects of stress, but also leads to a better sense of well-being by uniting mind and body.
Statistics on meditation in the Western culture has shown that people suffering from chronic pain, anxiety, depression, hypertension were treated with the help of meditation. Meditation provides benefits to all of the major forms of human existence: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
A lot of famous people across the globe have started shifting to this practice religiously. They believe that through meditation, mind is rejuvenated, the soul refreshed, nerves calmed and in general, one is at peace with oneself and the environment. Fortified by sessions of meditation, people have found they are able to face, the tensions of the world with increased success. Infact, Dalai Lama has gone a step ahead in saying:
“If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”
