| Do you feel that you are constantly under stress? | | | | It can increase your self-esteem by making you think |
| Are you looking into ways of how you can reduce | | | | in a more positive way |
| your stress levels? If you have answered yes to | | | | Helps you to think in a more logical and clear way |
| both of these questions, you are not alone. The | | | | Helps you to reduce stress |
| world is seemingly becoming faster, more demanding | | | | Types of meditation: |
| and more pressurised. In this article I write about | | | | Walking meditation |
| how meditation can help you to relax and become a | | | | Mandala meditation |
| happier person. | | | | Yoga meditation |
| Stress affects people in different ways. I personally | | | | Sitting meditation |
| feel very tired and lethargic during these periods and | | | | Prayer meditation |
| start to worry about things, like a future event. This | | | | Visualisation meditation |
| can easily lead me into a period of depression, which | | | | I personally prefer the sitting meditation. I try to |
| in the past I have found it very difficult to come out | | | | make time around three of four times a day when I |
| of. | | | | will sit down to meditate. Originally I had a lack of |
| Other people suffer from panic attack attacks, | | | | belief about what I was doing and about if it would |
| become very shaky and nervous, feel sick in the | | | | work. I found it difficult at this stage to get myself |
| stomach, become sad and can begin to think in a | | | | into the zone. With practice and realising that I |
| very negative way. | | | | needed this to work for me, I managed to get |
| Most of the conditions I have described above are | | | | enough concentration and focus to see the full |
| actually a mental and not so much of a physical | | | | benefits. |
| problem. This is why I believe meditation to be an | | | | A lot of the people in my circle of friends think that I |
| excellent form of stress relief or stress management. | | | | am a bit mad. They can not believe that I actually |
| Meditation helps us to control our emotions, to think | | | | just sit there and think. Meditation has had such a |
| in a more relaxed and positive way and certainly | | | | positive effect on my life and continues to do so, |
| helps us to think more clearly. | | | | therefore my friends can mock as much as they like. |
| Positive effects of meditation: | | | | I actually believe that some of them should try it |
| It reduces your heart rate | | | | themselves but they always laugh at the suggestion. |
| It relaxes your breathing and can even make it | | | | This is something I now do on a daily basis and it |
| slower | | | | works. Give it a go with belief and I am sure it will |
| It can lower blood pressure | | | | benefit you to. |