Are you looking into ways of how you can reduce your stress levels? . If you have answered yes , you are not alone. The world is seemingly becoming faster, more demanding and more pressurised. Stress affects people in different ways. This can easily lead me into a period of depression, which in the past I have found it very difficult to come out of. Other people suffer from panic attack attacks, become very shaky and nervous, feel sick in the stomach, become sad and can begin to think in a very negative way.

Meditation helps us to control our emotions, to think in a more relaxed and positive way and certainly helps us to think more clearly.

Positive effects of meditation:
It reduces your heart rate
It relaxes your breathing and can even make it slower
It can lower blood pressure
It can increase your self-esteem by making you think in a more positive way
Helps you to think in a more logical and clear way
Helps you to reduce stress

Types of meditation:
Walking meditation
Mandala meditation
Yoga meditation
Sitting meditation
Prayer meditation
Visualisation meditation

Periodically calming and focusing the mind has been shown to improve processing speed, attention, and response times.

I personally prefer the sitting meditation. Originally I had a lack of belief about what I was doing and about if it would work. With practice and realising that I needed this to work for me, I managed to get enough concentration and focus to see the full benefits. People can not believe that I actually just sit there and think. Meditation has had such a positive effect on my life and continues to do so, therefore my friends can mock as much as they like.This is something I now do on a daily basis and it works. Meditating just ten minues early in the morning can derive fantastic benefits.

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