Benefits
Support that Meditation Provides
Meditation is ancient, current, and scientific:
- Meditation lowers heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, significantly controlling the stress hormone cortisol, as well as high blood pressure at levels comparable to widely used prescription drugs, but without the side effects, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- It has been estimated that meditation can reduced the likelihood of being hospitalized for coronary disease by 87 percent, and the possibility of getting cancer by 55 percent.
- 75% of long-term insomniacs who have been trained in relaxation and meditation can fall asleep within 20 minutes of going to bed.
- 90% effective at cutting anxiety levels in anxiety prone people by more than half in a University of Massachusetts study.
- A recently published UCLA study links meditation with an increase in gray matter in the brain; particularly in those regions known for regulating emotions and concentration.
“It’s realistic to realize that you’re living in a time and an age that affords you very little time or opportunities to really re-center yourselves. And that gathers a little bit more, and a little bit more, until at the end of the day you say, I’m very tired, or I don’t feel very good; I just want everything to go away. And that’s an indication that everything has built up to a place of feeling too heavy. Ritual has a purpose in our lives to lighten the load.
An intention that we have is a thought. All intention is thought. An atmosphere that allows thought to more readily grow is an open atmosphere, a lighter atmosphere. If you’re full of feelings and you’re being held back by your feelings, that’s not an atmosphere where a thought can easily grow, because it gets captured, and it has to process through all of your feelings.
Ritual and meditation can aligning your selves back with your intentions. What you’re doing is you’re clearing the space so that your intentions can go further."
-janavatar