Meditation – What Is It Benefits Of Meditation
                     Meditation – What Is It ? Benefits Of 
Meditation
Satjit Kumar
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Our mind is a storage that can store any amount of information. It is 
never stable. It has immense power to think in all directions. Once we 
are awake, the conscious part of our mind works that helps us to 
think about what’s happening around us.
 
The conscious mind is responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and 
emotions. The way our mind thinks and reacts to the situation affects 
our lives and relationships a lot. How to control our minds? How to 
make it stable and focused on the goals of our lives?
The answer to these questions is meditation.
What is meditation?
It is a kind of mental training practice that’s performed for relaxation, 
focus, concentration, awareness, and peace of mind. Like some 
physical workout is required to our body to keep it healthy and 
active, in the same way, meditation is the workout of mind to keep it 
healthy and active. It’s the state of consciousness where our body is 
completely awake and alert, but the mind is going to be in rest and 
will not focus on the events happening around us.
Types of meditation
Spiritual meditation: It’s almost like doing a prayer. It can be 
practiced in a home or place of worship to seek connection with God 
or universal power.
Focused meditation: It involves concentrating either on your 
internal breath or external things like staring on the candle flame, or 
counting of mala beads.
Movement meditation: It includes yoga, where all body parts are 
involved in some yoga poses and the mind has to concentrate on 
breathing.
Mantra meditation: This type of meditation includes the repetition 
of certain words or mantras like ‘OM’.
How to start meditation?
You can choose any kind of meditation, to begin with. Meditation 
should be done in a quiet and airy place, where you can focus. There 
shouldn’t be any disturbances around you. Sit with crossed legs. 
Your head, neck, back should be straight and eyes should be close. 
Slowly allow all the muscles of the body to relax. Try to keep all the 
thoughts away from your mind. Stay in the state for a couple of 
moments.
When your mind and body get relaxed bring your consciousness to 
your breath. Observe your inhaling and exhaling process of 
breathing. Don’t control your breath, go with its flow. Your breath 
can be irregular in the start but slowly it will become smooth. Many 
thoughts will come to distract the process of meditation. Every time 
they come let them go and again focus on your breath.
In the beginning, you will not sit for longer. Keep practicing every 
day and your sitting time will increase gradually as your mind start to 
get more focused and will not get distracted when it enters the 
meditation process.
Benefits of meditation
 Reduces stress
 Control on anger and reduces tension
 Control on some kind of addiction like excessive drinking or 
smoking
 Control blood pressure and blood sugar level
 Boost immune system
 Helps in better sleep
 Improves brain functioning
 Helps to appreciate yourself and life
 Increases energy within the body and keep you charged up for the 
entire day
Mediation is a slow process, but it’s very effective. You will need to 
fix the daily 20 minutes to do the meditation process then only you 
will get the result. You will have to be patient.
Keep working on your mind to control it. Don’t let it distract you 
with the thoughts. Keep practicing then only you will see the benefits 
of meditation. Slowly it will become part of your daily life and you 
will experience a more healthy and worry-free life.
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