Why Should You Meditate?
by Paul Jerard
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Everyone’s mind needs a little downtime. We all need time to focus on
one task, instead of multi-tasking all day and night. In fact, your mind
doesn’t take a complete rest when you sleep. Your mind moves from dream to
dream for about two hours per night.
Your mind needs rest and a vacation. Have you ever noticed that when
you take a vacation, you come back with fresh ideas, a better attitude,
and establish clear priorities? This is due to getting some time to relax
and reflect on your life. The time off allows you to think clearly.
Our problem stems from being so busy that we lose touch with our inner
self. We fill our time with too many activities to realistically
accomplish them. Companies do this to their employees, but we voluntarily
do it to ourselves. You have the ability to take control of your own life,
and the solution is as simple as daily meditation sessions.
The answers to our problems are within ourselves, but many of us don’t
want to look that deep, for fear of what we might learn about ourselves.
It is always easier to blame outside forces for our problems. However,
closing down outside distractions and listening to our inner voice is
natural medicine.
Who knows? You could actually find yourself and your identity. This
could lead you to make changes and put ideas into action. All of this
progress could happen as a result of you making a “meditation appointment”
with yourself. It only takes 20 to 30 minutes a day for a single
meditation session.
There has never been a better time to meditate than right now. People
have so much “going on,” these days; the only time they stop is when they
are sick. The problem is how busy will people be in 20 years from now? Now
you see why having downtime is so important.
Information about meditation techniques is widely available in books,
DVD’s, and CD’s. You don’t have to join a monastery, and live according to
a strict moral code, with multitudes of rules, but you do need the
self-discipline to continue a daily practice.
Strangely - self-discipline, alone, will keep the masses away from this
ancient practice, which has survived a battery of tests and modern
scrutiny. This is amazing when you think about the rewards of
self-mastery, contentment, and mindfulness, which result from daily
meditation practice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Jerard is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at:
Aura Wellness Center, in North Providence, RI. He has been a certified
Master Yoga teacher since 1995. He is a master instructor of martial arts,
with multiple Black Belts, four martial arts teaching credentials, and was
recently inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He teaches Yoga,
martial arts, and fitness to children, adults, and seniors in the greater
Providence area. Recently he wrote: Is Running a Yoga Business Right for
You? For Yoga students, who may be considering a new career as a Yoga
teacher.
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