Self Help: You Can Meditate Right Now

You Can Meditate Right Now

Written by Steve Gillman

Why Should You Meditate?

What if you could close your eyes, then open them a few minutes later and be relaxed, alert, and able to think clearly? Meditation can do that for you, and it's easier than you might think.

Documented Benefits of Meditation

Less anxiety. Decreased depression

Reduction in irritability and moodiness Better learning ability and memory.

Greater creativity.

Slower aging (possibly due to higher DHEA levels).

Feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.

Less stress (actual lowering of cortisol and lactate levels). Rest (lower metabolic and heart rate).

Lower blood pressure.

Lower cholesterol levels.

Higher blood oxygen levels.

A Simple Meditation To Use Now

Don't think meditation has to be difficult. Try this simple technique, and you'll see results in minutes. Get comfortable, close your eyes, and tense up your whole body. Then breath deeply through your nose as you release repparttar tension from every muscle. Feel each part relaxing, watching for parts that may escape notice, like a tight jaw. If you still have tension somewhere, tense up that part again, then let it relax.

Regrets I've had a few

Written by Sally Higgins

The willingness to make mistakes is probably repparttar

single most freeing decision we can make. When you allow yourself to make mistakes, you free yourself from all constraints of seeking perfection and you open yourself up to all kinds of opportunities and possibilities.

Perfection is a limitation. Firstly because when you achieve perfection there is nowhere to go beyond that. Secondly we can become so conditioned to achieving perfection that we prevent ourselves from doing things and taking opportunities because we may ‘get it wrong’ or we might ‘not be good at it’.

“Better to do something imperfectly than it is to do nothing flawlessly” (Robert H. Schuller).

When you grant yourself willingness to make mistakes, you open repparttar 128554 world up to you. You free yourself to attempt new things or to aim higher. You know that by allowing yourself to make mistakes, there is no emphasis on getting it right or doing it well. Instead, you create learning experiences that assist you to develop and to grow.

Are you waiting to be great at something before you will do it? Sounds ridiculous, but this is a genuine belief that holds people back. For example a common fear a lot of people have is public speaking. They fear that they will stand up in front of people and get it wrong. Even though they might be able to get their message out to far more people by public speaking, they will avoid doing it. Even if their job depends on it they will make every attempt to avoid it.

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