Why Meditate?

The benefits of meditation are boundless – from simple stress relief, freedom from fear and even full enlightenment. It seems like meditation promises to help us in many ways.

People from all walks of life with a wide range of personal motives learn how to meditate. It can benefit anyone because the mind has a direct impact on all aspects of life.

You might want to improve your health, experience peace of mind, or enjoy closer relationships. Perhaps you feel that there is more to life than what you are currently experiencing.

Irrespective of your intentions behind wanting to learn to meditate, you can feel confident that the effects of meditation can have a profound positive impact on your entire life.

 

Physical Benefits

 

From a physical perspective, regular meditation can aid the healing of physical conditions. It helps the body release stored stress.

It helps you to maintain better health by no longer accumulating as much stress during daily life. The relaxation benefits significantly help the body and mind.

People using the Ascension meditation techniques also report improvements in the quality of their sleep,. This can also lead to better physical health due to the enhanced levels of rest your body experiences.

 

Emotional

 

Meditation can also help you to increase confidence, self-esteem and self-love. You can learn how to listen less to the critical voice in your head.

Instead of habitually thinking negatively about yourself, meditation enables you to let negative thoughts come and go without them making you feel bad. In doing so, meditation can make you more calm, confident and content. It does this naturally, without you having to rely on positive affirmations or reinforcement from others.

This is very liberating. It is also a genuine and long-lasting way to enjoy greater peace of mind and happiness.

 

Relationship

 

What does meditation do for relationships? It has been said that the only way to enjoy truly loving relationships with others is to first learn how to love Your Self fully.

Meditation can help you to discover the inner source of love that resides within your own heart.

By being aware of the inner source of love, you no longer need to look outside yourself to ‘get love’ from others. This takes the pressure off your relationships and increases the levels of love you experience.

The Ishayas’ meditation techniques help you to cultivate kindness and compassion. Being kinder to yourself can cause you to see the best in others too. As a direct consequence of these marvellous benefits of meditation, you can resolve relationship conflict and enjoy a deeper connection with others.

 

Career

 

Perhaps surprisingly, the positive effects of meditation can also spill over into your professional life too.

Meditation helps you to reduce stress, be more creative, enjoy greater clarity and make better decisions.

You can also develop the ability to get ‘in the zone’ at will. This helps you ignore the negative thoughts inside your mind that can prevent you from performing at your best.

 

Spiritual

 

Meditation helps you to think less about the past and future and live more in the here and now. By being present, you can feel less anger, sadness, fear and guilt. This helps you experience more peace, joy and contentment.

Meditation also reveals to you the underlying still, silent, peaceful nature of reality that exists within your awareness. This allows you to go about your day with an ongoing sense of inner peace – irrespective of how busy your external life happens to be. Imagine that!

 

Consciousness

 

With regular practice and with the right guidance, meditation can also allow you to experience more expansive states of consciousness.

Without meditation, most people only experience the states of consciousness commonly referred to as waking, sleeping and dreaming. However, there are higher levels available to you and when you begin to explore and experience them, the benefits of meditation can feel like waking up, living heaven on earth and be incredibly liberating.

Find out about research on the benefits of meditation from Wikipedia