Practice For a Happier Life

Mediation is not mystical or inaccessible as some of you may have realized.
Meditation is very down to earth and practical and it is available to anyone and everyone.
And meditation is regardless to your current religious practices. You can meditative for any religion.
Although many of the meditations are inspired by ancient and modern spirituality practices... None of tthem require a faith!
If you have no spiritual practice or do not believe in a god or higher Power(s) trying meditations with motivation of simply to create a happier life for yourself.
You can meditate by simply creating a special time c0nsciously to focus your mind positive and helpful ways.
But it helps to have some direction and guidance as to how to do this.
All the techniques in meditations fall in the four basic categorize -

Focusing
Thinking
Visualizing
Experience
Focusing
In the first meditation technique you focus your mind on an object.
The object can be external- A candle, image of your dietiy, a flower or it can be internal such as your breath or heart beat.
The purpose of this technique is to quiet your mind of its constant thinking and attain peace.
Focusing on an object helps you calm and center yourself and stabilize your mind.
As a side benefit because you will find it difficult to stop thinking totally you will observe patterns in your thinking prossess and your emotions.
Which will help you learn more about yourself.
Focusing during meditation help you focus on whatever you want in the rest of your life.
What type of focusing do you do in your daily life?

Thinking

Instead of avoiding thoughts in order to calm, stabilize and focus your mind in these meditations you think about a topic. You might be asking to think about a problem you are current having or an issue such as Anger or a lose of someone. As well as virtues you wish to have or develop. Such as kindness or Patience as well as Unconditional Love. You may meditate on a topic by thinking of it of how to make yourself more positive change yourself. In this way you train your mind to be more positive.

Visualizing
Many of the meditation will ask you to visualizing something to create a picture in your mind.
Visualizing helps you create your reality, manifest your desires and intentions, change your behavior and even alter your body processes.
For example one of my favorite meditations is Tara meditation you visualizing is a very powerful meditation to remove fear and heal illnesses.
Visualizing is a very is a very powerful tool in the mediators tool kit.
Do not worry if you feel like you are having an issue visualizing anything .. With a little practice your visualizing skills will improve over time.

Did YOU know that meditation is Scientifically proven to: 
1. Overcome stress (University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2003)
2. Boost your creativity (ScienceDaily, 2010)
3. Improve your sex life and increase your libido (The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2009)
4. Cultivate healthy habits that lead to weight loss (Journal Emotion, 2007) 5. Improve digestion and lower blood pressure (Harvard Medical School)
6. Decrease your risk of heart attack (The Stroke Journal, 2009)
7. Help overcome anxiety, depression, anger and confusion (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009)
8. Decrease perception of pain and improve cognitive processing (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010)
9. Increase your focus and attention (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007)
10. Increase the size of your most important organ your brain! (Harvard University Gazette, 2006)