Stress and negative thoughts go away and anxiety attacks go away. Body and mind, physical and mental health, which come together: science no longer has doubts about the enormous advantages of meditation. What is defined as mindfulness, the awareness of one’s own internal resources, is a truly magical power, not to be wasted, that we can all conquer.

Everyday. Also to rediscover, when they are lacking, vitality, enthusiasm and energy: things that are somatized even in the improvement of our physical appearance. Stress is the main thing that speeds up the aging process.

Yes, I know that it’s hard to stay away from stress these days. You can use my guide to meditation to help you relax, though. Everything about our health is affected by stress, but the aging process is significantly affected by stress. Stress makes the body make more cortisol, which makes lines appear. Because of this, lowering your worry level will make your lines go away.

MEDITATION

Everyone can meditate. And everyone can do it anywhere: there is no need for a specific space or special tools. And meditation, from the Latin meditatio, is not a religious or spiritual journey: it is a path that helps you become more aware, through a 360-degree wellness strategy. And the people who regularly practice meditation are women, who are always more willing to look inside themselves than men.

BENEFITS OF MEDITATION

The well-being of the mind can influence our physical health: the dialogue between the body and the mind is therefore fundamental. Through meditation and other practices that help to free the mind, such as the art of origami. In medical jargon we talk about somatization, or when the body absorbs and transposes some problems, such as worries, that lurk in the mind.

Let’s take an example: the back is often a source of pain and tiredness because it is literally and metaphorically our backbone, the first to give way under the blows of anxieties and anguish. Through meditation we can not only reduce physical pain but also reduce stress and reduce anxiety and depression.

Benefits of Meditation?

• It is a real natural remedy against anxiety and depression: just practice this discipline for at least half an hour a day to feel better.
• It helps to regain psychophysical well-being: it has a very restful effect and is an important tool for getting to know yourself and your limits better.
• Improves memory and concentration.It allows you to reduce physical pain, without any side effects, unlike drugs.
• Lowers blood pressure: meditation promotes the release of nitric oxide into the blood, a substance capable of relaxing blood vessels allowing blood to flow better. Combining meditation with a healthy and balanced diet and constant physical activity is an excellent natural remedy against high blood pressure.

• Keeps you young: meditation slows down the aging process of cells.

• Meditation helps you have greater self-awareness, including your abilities. And therefore it helps to increase self-esteem, without forcing, but in a natural way.
• It pushes us to be kind. Even in moments of disappointment or, worse, tension.

• Improves sleep and its quality.

• It can help overcome addictions, alcohol, drugs and smoking.

How To Meditate Properly

Here are 10 tips, which summarize the main known techniques, for a practical guide on how to meditate and achieve a good relationship between mind and body. Before starting, however, it is good to know that there are many different practices: for example, some types of meditation claim that it is necessary to chase away thoughts, while others believe that it is important to keep them close. Let’s see what the main points they have in common are.

• Pay attention to your posture. Posture speaks to us: closed shoulders, bent head and lowered eyes are all symptoms indicative of defeat and an attitude of renunciation. Then recover an open posture.

• Broad shoulders. Among the gestures to be performed immediately, as the first act of a good meditation, there is precisely that of widening the shoulders, proof of the authority of the mind that is transmitted to the body. It is also a way to improve breathing.

• The body speaks. The body tells you in a practical way some problems of the mind: a knee that does not move forward when walking, a throat that burns when talking, a back that hurts as we have already seen. Good: don’t ignore these signs.

• Muscle tension equals fear. The stiffness of the body does not allow you to move well. If you can understand, in the silence of your thoughts, where your mental problem is, then you will also be able to walk better.
• Regain contact with the body. It is a decisive step to be present to ourselves and aware of what happens in our head.
• Each symptom is not an isolated event. Understanding the underlying reason for a symptom, which you cannot explain otherwise, helps you get closer to your point of balance.
• Concentrate on your breathing. Shortness of breath is a symptom of uncertainty and fear. Breathing too slowly signals tiredness. Meditation helps regulate breathing, bringing it closer to a physiological level. You can help yourself by counting backwards in your mind as you inhale. If for any reason you lose attention and become distracted, return to the activity and start counting from the beginning while focusing on your breathing.
• Breath brings energy. Good breathing, which is certainly helped by meditation, not only improves the oxygenation of the body but also allows us to better channel our energies.
• Step by step. Nothing, in the relationship between body and mind as in life in general, can be accomplished in the space of an instant. It takes time, practice, continuity. And awareness of one’s means.
• The right place. Meditation needs silence to give you the right concentration. So choose a suitable place to do it, where you feel fully at ease.