Why Meditate?

With the popularity of meditation, I’m sure you’ve heard why you should meditate from many different sources.  So what’s holding you back from taking advantage of this great technology to get control of your rascally mind and start enjoying the numerous benefits, both mental and physical?  

I find that two things tend to hold us back in life: not knowing what to do or how to do it, and feeling overwhelmed by that thing we think we need to do.   If either of these conditions apply to what’s holding you back from learning the art of breaking habits (meditation), then you won’t want to miss my upcoming class “Meditation for Total Health” on October 13th from 6:30-7:30 in Elm Grove.  For full details just click the underlined link (name of the class).

In this meditation class you will get a simple overview about the power of meditation and, more importantly, easy and tangible ways to start.  Yes, even if you think you have a mind that’s too woolly and wild to meditate (all the more reason to do it!), I can guarantee you that I have a meditation that will work for you.  Because there is more than one way to meditate and armed with the right tools, anyone can do it.

Let me give you a preview of why to meditate.  Just like your body builds up stress which eventually leads to crisis points of pain, illness and disease, so does your mind build up gunk.  In fact, my yoga teacher, Yogi Bhajan, calls meditation “clearing out the garbage” because it helps unload the bombardment of external stimulus you take in every moment which clogs up the subconscious mind.  And whether it be physical or mental, when things get clogged, our energy doesn’t move well in our bodies or our lives.  And then, we get problems.

Maybe you’re not interested in the ultimate goal of meditation which is to “abide in the Self” or connect with and hear your Infinite Self, but I’m sure you would enjoy any of these other meditation benefits:

• Develops a neutral meditative mind (quiets and calms the mental agitations).
• Promotes a sense of well-being, inner peace, stability, and calm.
• Releases reactions and unconscious habits, and subconscious fears and blocks.
• Helps prevent disease process
• Meditation therapy is effective for treating nervous disorders from simple insomnia to severe emotional disturbances, chronic and debilitating diseases like allergies or arthritis in which stress or hypersensitivity of the nervous system are involved, and in treating heart disease which is the seat of consciousness in Vedic thought (Ayurvedic and Yogic perspective).
• Helps deal with pain as it transfers attention of the mind.
• Promotes the ability to focus energy, enhancing effectiveness and efficiency.
• Promotes clarity of mind, mental awareness, and the ability to be present.
• Resolves core issues of stress-producing patterns.

So don’t wait…come join the fun!