Helping to Navigate Life's Choices For a Healthier and Longer Life!
By Wendy C. Hawkins | June 24, 2023
Find peace, serenity, and good health through the powerful ancient practice of spiritual meditation. It’s the ubiquitous practice of connecting to something larger than yourself. The primary purpose of meditation is to connect with your inner-self, and its power to increase your imagination, drive, and creativity; lower your blood pressure naturally, enhance sleep, and a host of other health benefits by becoming more in tune with your spiritual- and honest-self.
Discover how to deactivate your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) at will, and turning-on the parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS). It is the network of nerves that relaxes your body after periods of stress and possible physical danger. In other words, it helps one to accept the world and its issues as is, while quietly absorbing natures beauty, peace and tranquility.
Today’s society is so very complicated and challenging, and as we go about our daily lives trying to put our lives in order, we find that things are now even more daunting then anticipated. Our lives are filled with combustible stress of everything from work related issues, the onslaught of violence and civil disobedience, financial problems, to relationships, parental problems, and medical concerns to name a few. It can be quite discouraging to say the least.
Every time you find a place where you can close your eyes and take a breather, something else shows up – adding even more to your plate of disastrous dilemmas. When this begins to occur on more than one occasion, it’s time for action on your part. You must now take charge of your life, and control the narrative and direction. There is nothing more important than your life, and being able to live in a stress free environment. Why? Because stress kills! It’s time to reset your parasympathetic nervous system and live abundantly.
Find a quiet place in your home and make it yours. Preferably one having a piece of nature nearby, (a plant, fishbowl, a waterfall, if you’re lucky; even a picture of nature as it can reduce your stress level alone by approximately 10%) when quietly focusing your undivided attention on it. A warm outside environment would be even better. People today tend to lose touch with their mind and body as a result of external noise, and mind-altering devices (cell phones, computers, television, x-box games, etc.).
After you have located a peaceful and calming spot, simply sit for a moment and take in the natural beauty and experience the calm or the soft breeze which ever so often softly blows through your hair, face and down your body to your feet. Feel it stimulating all the neurons in your body, sending harmonious messages from your body to your brain, and back to the body.
Listen intently to the melodious sounds of the leaves on the trees that whistle in wind to eyeballing their magnificent array of colors, patterns, and the variation of the leaves shapes themselves. If you’re lucky and get the opportunity to see some of the leaves detach themselves from the tree branches. Then, be still and watch them as they dance to the sounds of the birds and bees or to that classical musical rhythm of your favorite composer while you embrace and feel the calm of the moment.
Now simply breathe in slowly and fully, holding it for a second, and then exhaling just as smoothly, pushing all the air out of your lungs, then breathing normally (do this again, softly and fully trying to replicate the wind of the falling leaves). [Repeat this several times.]
Multiple studies have shown with deep breathing and sighs, it releases and returns the autonomic nervous system from an overactive sympathetic state of mind to a more stable and well-balanced system. Breathing deeply and controlled, as well as steadily is your body’s natural way of releasing tension, and resetting your inner-spirit and your nervous system.
We all need to practice mindfulness (the action of being totally aware of our surroundings), and to know where we are at every point of the day. We should never become overly responsive to situations, and especially those outside of our control. Our goal must always be to maintain an even and more nonreactive approach to daily problems as well as life’s complications.
It is through these types of calming exercises, and the restructuring of your internal and external problem-solving mechanisms that can help you to maintain a healthier, a more robust, and an extended life-cycle. Thereby, adding years to your life’s expectancy. There is absolutely nothing that we should have to worry about in life that causes us so much damaging stress to our person.
Majority of the stress in our lives is all made-up by man/woman, and we allow it to enter our heads. By becoming mindful, we will reduce the pressure, and stress associated with over-whelming situations and time-oriented task. By becoming better focused, you will therefore increase your performance without the highly confusing pressure to perform.
The purpose of meditation is to align oneself with natures ebb and flow. The natural process of recurrent or rhythmical patterns of coming and going, declining and regrowth or rising and falling in any situation. The world is an open vessel of peace and tranquility waiting for you to find its miracles. Those around you have nothing to provide you. They can’t make you happy, neither can they heal your troubled soul. It is you, and you alone that can heal your troubled heart, and find inner peace.
But you must first learn to love and trust yourself, and understand the innerworkings of enlightenment, which will be the end of your suffering. It is also the beginning of the now. Living in the present time and forgetting the past entanglements, as they only bog-down the mind and cause unwarranted confusion. So free your mind and let it run as water flowing down-stream, over hills, absent of any mind obstruction, as it flows with ease around rocks and any barrier erecting itself in its path.
In conclusion: Keep in mind a compulsive individual is one who thinks in an unrestrained pattern – having no control over his/her thoughts. They are in effective leaders as they react to circumstances by way of irresistible urges absent any real thought or need. Being in touch with your inner-spirit and that of your conscious, will not only provide logical thought but will help you to maintain an equilibrium of all things in life, and thereby helping you to live a happier, healthier and a longer life.
