Over time, meditation can be credited with transforming the mind, encouraging concentration, clarity, and emotional positivity. Through a daily practice, you can learn the patterns and habits of the mind, specially, observing the mind think. By observing the mind think you realize that while the mind is a part of you, it’s not all of you. Meditation helps you to separate yourself from life’s sometimes mundane details and cultivate a calm and positive state of awareness. Meditation is like boot camp for your mind with the end result being equanimity and peace.
Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as an aspect of various religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. More recently, it’s been reintroduced and brought to the mainstream with benefits that include reducing high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression. The earliest references to meditation come from the Hindu Vedas. Around the 6th and 5th centuries BCE other forms developed in Taoist China and Buddhist India….