Why Meditate?

The reasons and benefits are many and profound!

Modern science has shown that relaxation of the mind has a healing effect on the body, helping people to reduce stress and as a result, prevent and treat a whole host of mental and physical dieases and ailments - even something as simple as the common cold.In a meditative state, metabolic processes, including respiration and blood flow, slow down.

Key words—SLOW DOWN.

Meditation is a technique that helps us focus and calms the mind resulting in a relaxed and restful state of physical and mental being.Meditation is generally focused on one constant thing, usually your breath. It is an effective tool to gain mind control, self-awareness and understanding that eventually lead to inner calm and peacefulness.

And meditating does not require any great length of time. It only takes some conscious effort. You can take as little as 5 minutes to slow down, focus on the center of your body and let the rest of the moment happen.The point is to achieve a sense of being centered and letting go of every day concerns.

Meditation is simply taking a moment to BE.

A big mistake that alot of people make is thinking it is too time consuming or complicated and then not giving it a try at all.

A very quick and simple meditation technique is to concentrate on and control your breathing pattern for a few minutes. Ever notice when someone says the word “breathe," you do? That right there is controlling your pattern.

Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out- as simple as it may sound - you have just done a form of meditation!

Try it for as little as 5 minutes a day when need be and see how this simple technique can calm, center and elevate your mind, body & spirit!

Until next time....

To your well being,

Dr. Mike Davison

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