Commit to daily meditation for a healthy mind and body.

Meditation is the practice of emptying the mind of conscious thoughts or focusing the mind on a specific thing in order to relax. It provides an experience of calm and inner silence.

Your health and wellbeing are of utmost importance. Relaxing your mind and body is something that you must focus on a daily basis. When you meditate, you put your mind at ease and remove the stresses that affect your ability to think, to become alert and to produce more.

Contemplation puts you into a resourceful state and brings inner peace and happiness. When you are in that state of mind and body, you can produce many actions that were once beyond your reach.

You may experience a little discomfort from your first few attempts to sit quietly and meditate. The key is not to focus so much on your sitting position or whether you are doing it right.

For a start, learn to focus on the correct way of breathing. Breathe through your nose instead of your mouth. Breathe deeply from your abdomen and exhale slowly. Breathing deeply and correctly provides sufficient oxygen to your body and improves blood circulation.

Long term practice of this habit reduces the susceptibility to illness and ailments and therefore improves the overall health.

Your job and daily responsibilities can drain you physically and mentally. You get stressed easily and your emotions and judgments are affected. You can take a little time to de-stress yourself and quiet you mind amidst the daily chaos.

The immediate benefit benefit is it relives mental fatigue and it soothes the mind and soul.

Here's a simple relaxation technique.

• Sit comfortably on a chair with your feet flat on the floor.

• Loosen your belt or anything that is tight around your waist.

• Make sure your back is straightened.

• Place your palms on your laps

• Breathe deeply through your nose and from your abdomen.

• Exhale slowly and close your eyes.

• Repeat the breathing exercise three times.

In order to stay focused and prevent your mind from wandering, count to ten with each breath that you take and do the same when you exhale.

Once you make this exercise a habit, you may stop counting your breath. You just allow yourself to feel the natural flow of your breath.

This simple relaxation exercise will refresh your day and keep you going. You will feel more alert and improves your mental faculty.

Other health benefits.

• Lowers blood pressure.

• Reduces acid secretions that create ulcers.

• Decreases metabolic rate.

• Decreases biological aging.

The best time is spending 10 minutes in the morning when you mind is fresh. You can do this simple technique each morning before you start your day.

• Lie down in bed.

• Close your eyes.

• Allow your breathing to flow naturally.

• Count slowly backwards from one hundred to one. Keep your mind on it.

• Then come out from the state by counting from five to one.

There are many other benefits from the practice of meditation and you should take the effort to make it becomes habitual.

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