Meditation is the ultimate tool for success

For many centuries, mystical Hindu and Buddhist monks have understood the immense mental and health benefits one receives from a regular meditation practice. Now the western world verifies the scientific aspects of meditation. Researches had been performed their experiments at the different levels of a human being. 

At physical level meditation has the potential to actually slow the aging process as shown by Noble Prize winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn. 

At the emotional level meditation can reduce the level of stress significantly as reported by John Kabat-Zinn, the founder and director of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts. 

At the cognitive level; as reported by the University of Harvard researchers, regular meditation increases cortical thickness in the area of the brain that handles memory and learning.

Research has shown how individuals can experience beneficial changes at every level of their being.

Meditation is the most powerful personal development tool. But most of the researches on the meditation being focused on Physical Health and Well Being-ness. But Meditation have potential to take you beyond your expectation;  because meditation works on energies behind the human existences. 

Meditation can be used as an unmatched tool for not only improving one’s mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing, but also for achieving great things in one’s life.

Great words of Dalai Lama to everyone on this earth – 

“The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.”

Let’s understand more from scientific research on meditation:- 

1. Meditation can improve our concentration; can improve your abilities to focus.
2. Meditation can improve our awareness that is a key feature of Indian Scripture and is a mystic phenomenon of scientific spirituality.
3. Meditation can helps us to understand our worldly relationship better.
4. Meditation can improve our creativity. Creativity is an inner quality and can only be improved by the very effect of meditation.
5. Meditation can reduce our sleeping disorders; if any, by decreasing the amount of sleep we generally need.
6. Meditation helps us to find the clear vision of our life.
7. Meditation connect us to ours higher energies.

Acharya Harish is a certified Vedanta scholar and a yoga teacher.