The word meditation is derived from a Latin word ‘madri’ which means “to heal”. Meditation can certainly be considered as a great healing process - spiritual, mental, and emotional - with proven benefits to physical well-being. In the current communication, an attempt has been made to explain some of these benefits and provide science based evidence to explain them. Meditation develops our...
Yoga is a psycho-somatic-spiritual discipline for achieving union and harmony between our mind, body, and soul and the ultimate union of our individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. There are certain elements of meditation which should be achieved before sitting for meditation and are described. Transcendental meditation (TM) is one of the techniques of meditation, which...
This chapter highlights about yogic breathing as Highest Protection to Life. Yoga breathing improves health and speeds up recovery. There are a few significant yogic breathing exercises [pranayama] discussed together with their advantages and disadvantages. Yogic breathing aids in blood purification, sinus and nasal passageway clearing, increased blood flow, nervous system toning, and...
Meditation and definitionsSitting alone in one of the yogic postures, shutting the mind to the external world and diverting all its powers inside with concentration on Trikuti (space between two eye-brows), eyes closed, breathing slowly through both nostrils and getting absorbed in the Absolute until the knower, the known, and the knowing become one in the enlightenment.This practice offers...