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Meditation generally refers to a state of extreme relaxation and concentration, in which the body is at rest and the mind quieted of surface thoughts. There are however forms of meditation involving thought and movement.
Several major religions include meditation rituals. Meditation itself need not be a religious or spiritual activity
From the point of view of psychology, meditation can induce or is itself an altered state of consciousness. Meditation does not necessarily require effort and can be experienced as "just happening". Physical postures include sitting cross-legged, standing, lying down, and walking (sometimes along designated floor patterns). Quiet is often desirable but some people use repetitive activities such as deep breathing, humming or chanting to help induce a meditative state. Meditation can be done with the eyes closed (as long as one does not fall asleep), or with the eyes open: focusing the eyes on a certain point of an object or image, and keeping the eyes constantly looking at that point. The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. It may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine. A means of gaining insight into the nature of reality or of communing with one's God. Focus meditation, where one meditates to improve health or mental faculties.
Health applications of meditationMeditation has entered the mainstream of health care as a method of stress and pain reduction. For example, in an early study in 1972, transcendental meditation was shown to effect the human metabolism by lowering the biochemical byproducts of stress, such as lactate (lactic acid), and by decreasing heart rate and blood pressure and inducing favorable brain waves. (Scientific American 226: 84-90 (1972)) As a method of stress reduction, meditation is often used in hospitals in cases of chronic or terminal illness to reduce complications associated with increased stress including a depressed immune system. There is a growing consensus in the medical community that mental factors such as stress significantly contribute to a lack of physical health, and there is a growing movement in mainstream science to fund and do research in this area (e.g. the establishment by the NIH in the U.S. of 5 research centers to research the mind-body aspects of disease.) Dr. James Austin, a neurophysiologist at the University of Colorado, reported that Zen meditation rewires the circuitry of the brain in his landmark book Zen and the Brain. This has been confirmed using sophisticated imaging techniques which examine the electrical activity of the brain. Dr. Herbert Benson of the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated with Harvard and several Boston hospitals, reports that meditation induces a host of biochemical and physical changes in the body collectively referred to as the "relaxation response." The relaxation response includes changes in metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and brain chemistry.
In order to truly experience this energy you require another sense beyond the five you currently use each and every day. That would be your sixth sense. In order for you to experience this sixth sense you do not need to belong to any specific religion or group of any kind. This energy is accessible to all with good intention.
When you meditate you allow this energy to approach and become one with you. The sixth sense is used by you to experience and communicate with it.
Your sixth sense is a natural ability that all humans and also mammals possess. Most humans have no idea it exists, because evolution has temporarily bypassed it. I believe there is a grand design re-awakening the sixth sense in many people; perhaps this is part of evolution's grand design. I believe that all humans actively used the sixth sense in the earlier stages of human evolution, more than likely for general survival. This sense in my opinion also connected us with a much higher vibration "Prana" or the consciousness of the world/universe.
The region of the brain that the sixth sense exists within still remains. In fact, on occasion it reacts in a variety of ways such as deja-vu, a sense of not being alone, or someone steering at the back of your head. Our modern brains have developed far beyond those of our ancestors and largely have abandoned the regions of the sixth sense.
Awakening the sixth sense within your brain and uniting its abilities with the mind will allow you to experience the universe in its full potential.
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