Meditation, Stress and Hypertension

Meditation requires concentration. Sit in a calm and quiet place. Wear loose fitting clothes. Make yourself as comfortable as possible. Close your eyes. Gently breath in and breath out. Focus all your attention on your breathing. Keep chanting the word ‘om’. You will feel the world slipping away from you. You will feel peace and tranquility enveloping you.

When person is agitated or anxious, meditation shifts his focus away from the cause of such a state of mind. Thus meditation is a great stress buster.

When you are agitated your breathing will be uneven and shallow. When your mind is weaned away from anxiety, your breathing will be more even.

Meditation would help you to increase your powers concentration. If you practice meditation for ten minutes daily, it would be greatly beneficial.

Meditation can be done sitting or lying down. You close your eyes, focus on your breathing while chanting the word ‘om’. Alternately your focus could be on an imaginary point between your eyes at a distance. Breathing should not be controlled. It should be normal. A rosary of beads can be used to count the chanting. It could also be of great help to rein in your mind and help you to concentrate.

Meditation requires constant practice. It is not easy to rein in your mind and totally bring it to a focus.

Meditation not only helps to reduce stress but can also reduce your blood pressure. Meditation would have none of the side effects of anti hypertension drugs. Meditation would reduce the necessity of anti hypertension drugs.

Studies have shown that meditation reduces the blood pressure significantly. Along with the reduction of blood pressure, meditation would reduce the chances of cardio vascular diseases and stroke.

Meditation slows down the heart rate and normalizes the blood pressure. It can cure for mild hypertension.

By B.N. Sridhar

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Meditation is a method of bringing peace and harmony into the hectic and confused lives of people. It is an effort to make life better by ensuring physical and mental well being. However, meditation bestows the best results when it is carried out voluntarily and is not a forced effort. It is possible to learn meditation from accomplished teachers, guides or even through books or audiovisual aids. It helps to have an open mind towards learning the techniques and the fundamentals of meditation.

In the book of Tantra, there are one hundred and twelve techniques mentioned that can be used to practice meditation. It is not necessary to be proficient in all or most of the techniques to gain the benefits of meditation. Meditators can choose the technique that they are most comfortable with and start practicing meditation immediately. A skillful teacher or guide becomes instrumental in helping the meditators, especially those who are beginners, to choose a suitable form of meditation according to their temperament and lifestyle. The chosen teacher or master then puts the meditators on the path of self-realization. The master guides the disciples and provides support to them whenever they find it difficult to stay on the path of meditation.

Meditators can choose from various popular as well as obscure methods of meditation, such as walking meditation or the more complex Kabbalah meditation. It is maintained by meditation experts that all paths lead to the same result that is attunement into the Self or enlightenment. It is advisable to choose a suitable type of meditation and then continue it for a considerable period of time to obtain any benefits. Meditation does not give instantaneous results because it is a gradual process. Meditators can see positive changes only after diligent and regular practice of the chosen techniques.

Initially, meditators may require putting aside a certain amount of time to practice meditation. However, after learning the techniques, meditators can incorporate the concept of meditation into all the actions of their daily lives.

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