Meditate, For Better Health And Focus

I’d like nothing more than to include a meditative exercise in this column, but I can’t: My readers are too busy to meditate — or so they believe. They have no idea what they’re missing.

For everyone who thinks meditation is nothing more than sitting cross-legged and humming, let’s go over the facts.

Research has shown that meditating habitually can lower blood pressure, improve one’s immune system and may decrease the risk of heart attack.

Meditation also helps you focus. In a recent study, subjects trained for three months in meditation developed enhanced “attentional stability,” i.e. focused thought free from mental wandering.

For these reasons, meditation must be taken seriously. But what exactly defines the act?

Rob Nairn, author of “What is Meditation?” calls it “a highly alert and skillful state of mind because it requires one to remain psychologically present and ‘with’ whatever happens in and around one without adding to or subtracting from it in any way.” (MORE)

Source: The Daily Tar Heel