Meditation: Your key to peace and happiness in turbulent times (How to Relieve Stress, Anxiety and Depression and Return to a State of Inner Peace)

By Lamont Smith

The Ultimate and Easy Guide to Learn How to Be Peaceful and Relieve Stress, Anxiety And Depression

Meditation is a lifestyle skill that brings not only peacefulness to the person practicing the skill, but also provides lifelong health benefits that add longevity and quality of life. It is a simple skill that can be practiced by anyone of any age, race, religion, political view point, or regional location with no special requirements or equipment needed.

This book will provide a brief overview of the history of meditation and how it has become so widely popular in modern day culture and why it will continue to grow in popularity for future generations.


Here’s a Preview of What You’ll Learn...

• What is meditation
• The history of meditation
• The benefits of meditation for the body
• How meditation works
• The healing power of meditation
• Types and elements of meditation
• How to prepare for meditation
• …and more!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Lamont Smith
• Release date: Dec 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9791222032924

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Introduction

Meditation has emerge as a famous subject matter in notion and recuperation all over the global today. This has happened particularly due to the emphasis located on meditation through first-rate teachers from India of their world travels over the past century. From Swami Vivekananda on the begin of the twentieth century to Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Paramahansa Yogananda, the various disciples of Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Meditation movement, the lecturers of India have delivered the message of meditation to all corners of the globe. Life with out meditation is no real existence. Without meditation we stay at the floor of our being and can not contact the real depths of truth and beauty hidden within everybody. Similarly, a way of life without a way of life of meditation is a superficial and outward way of life that has not but contacted the wellsprings of existence and creativity inside.

While the cutting-edge global prides itself on schooling, it's miles still deficient in education us how to use our minds properly. It lacks a technology of awareness to supplement its cloth sciences. The end result is that many people nowadays unnecessarily go through psychologically, even folks that are prosperous or nicely educated. They are sufferers of their own mental and emotional impulses, which they don’t realize a way to control, and are ruled through their mind. They are prey to recommendations, affect and advertising and don’t recognize who they virtually are or what their real purpose in lifestyles is.

The simplest method to such internal unrest and confusion is meditation. Meditation is the important thing to all lasting happiness because all lasting happiness have to live inside us. If it comes from something external we must ultimately lose it, however difficult we may attempt to keep on to it. It is by no means absolutely ours. When we lose a person or item of our happiness, we are left with sorrow and ache. The pleasure of meditation, however, can in no way be misplaced. It even follows us after the loss of life of the body.

However, the joy of meditation does now not come effortlessly. Joy is the lengthy-term reward however seldom the preliminary enjoy of meditation. We have to first damage through the dullness and distraction of the mind if you want to attain its deeper bliss. We ought to calm the floor waves of the thoughts ocean to attain the deep currents of focus in the back of and past the senses. This requires time, persistence and intensity of each mind and person. If we lack this dedication, meditation speedy turns into dry and meaningless.

In his observation on the first Sutra, Vyasa notes that samadhi is the very nature (dharma) of the thoughts (chitta). The problem is that the thoughts has two natures. One part of its nature, its higher thing or capacity, is the potential for meditation, the mind’s love of peace and truth. But the other component, its lower nature that we stimulate in our tradition, is distraction and impressionability, the thoughts’s capacity to wander away inside the outside international and its illusions. The thoughts’s higher nature, which manifests when we appearance within, is meditation, however its decrease nature, when we appearance without, is attachment to outside objects, jogging after the things of the arena, which are endless. The mind’s authentic nature, while we keep it free of external affects, is meditation. But the thoughts’s decrease nature, while we open it as much as outside influences, is loss of attention and the very denial of meditation. The thoughts is very susceptible and without difficulty encouraged. It has a spiritual root however, like clean fruit, can ruin without difficulty. We need to try to keep it freed from the outside impacts that imbalance it.

Chapter 1: Meditation – A Natural State Of Being

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In the Book we saw that meditation is not truly tough, however it's miles regularly made to appear difficult by those who have vested hobbies in making it look harder to attain and with the aid of those who are extra inquisitive about exploiting others than in coaching.

Unnatural is Natural

Meditation is in all likelihood to be tough for the ones who have an inclination to take the whole lot too seriously, and for the ones who've best a superficial hobby in it. It will also be hard for folks who are not doing it nicely.

In reality, meditation is the maximum simple thing inside the global. It ought to in reality be a herbal country for us. It is the very essence of our core being. Initially, one unearths it tough to consider that meditation might be so easy.

We locate it difficult handiest due to the fact our everyday life has come to be too complicated. Our exercises, life-style and wondering have become extraordinarily artificial, complex and contaminated in any respect ranges. Under the impact of such infection, we appear to have forgotten the remarkable naturalness that came with us when we have been born. This naturalness has been with us ever for the reason that, but lamentably something we've got found out after beginning has become greater critical to us. Artificiality has become our way of life. It is as if ‘unnaturalness’ has emerge as more herbal to us than actual ‘naturalness’.

That is why meditation, which in reality should be natural and easy for us, has end up greater tough and greater complex. The factor which ought to be closest to us is farthest away.

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

The human beings closest to us play an critical role in our existence. They make contributions a exceptional deal to creating our existence rich and meaningful. But they may be often so near us that we typically generally tend to take them without any consideration. Most folks don’t even recognize or comfortably renowned their precious contribution to our lifestyles. Children seldom see their dad and mom as people who desire them properly, frequently because they are too close to them.

Often kids do not recognize the actual meaning and goal in the back of the instructions given by way of their parents and like to rebel with the aid of doing precisely the opposite. They get a kick out of such reactionary behaviour. It is very abnormal that youngsters typically refuse to take any assistance or steerage from their parents after they really want it maximum and whilst their parents are also willing to go out of their way to give it to them.

Teenagers regularly may match through a very crucial and attempting section known as an ‘identity crisis’. During this delicate period, they are in search of their own individuality. They prefer to stay faraway from parental have an impact on, because they like to discover and experiment with their existence all via themselves or with the assist in their peers. Sometimes they cut themselves off from their dad and mom, often displaying a lack of recognize, not to mention taking any help from them.

There is not anything incorrect in trying to set up one’s individual identity, so long as it is accomplished well. But most young adults tend to do it at the price of helpful recommendation they might have without difficulty had from their ‘worldly wise’ dad and mom. As a end result, youngsters ought to undergo a variety of unnecessary toil to establish themselves. In the manner, they often pay a heavy price to benefit first-hand experience of worldly matters. They are in reality, supposed to ‘take a seat on the shoulders’ of their mother and father to get a much wider imaginative and prescient of life. They may additionally deny that this is a bonus, however they need to try this to get a right view of existence around them. However, they spend a variety of time and strength looking for an opportunity method to obtain the equal issue.

Something similar occurs inside the case of meditation. The nation of meditation is really very close to us right from our delivery. It is even nearer than our mother and father are. In reality, meditation is the nearest thing to us.

Our thoughts is a tool we use for setting up a connection with the external global. Whenever we get related with something within the global around us, we flow away from our genuine self. We