No one is new to stress in the contemporary world. A child has his own problems and the adult and elderly folk have their own. A common man has probably lost any sense of pure happiness or even a stress-free day.
If you are also gradually becoming a part of it, this site is definitely for you.
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The table of contents:
- Worsening Mental Health era
- Why do we need to combat stress: its pathological effects on the body
- Biomechanics of meditation
- How to adopt meditation in life
- Other benefits of 15 minutes meditation
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Worsening Mental Health era:
No age group is spared of mental health problems. A child is worried either of academics or of the fact of being everyone’s favorite. They barely grow into youth and the quest starts for setting up a career, bringing more worries and stress points. Then work issues, starting a family and repeating the same with their own children, all make it worse for the mental health when one is already weak within.
People are being forced to spend more time indoors as a result of increased urbanization and industry. Children are utilizing social media more frequently and have taken to masking themselves and everything with phony grins. This has only made the mental health situation worse.
This poses forth several challenges.
Why do we need to combat stress and its pathological effects on the body
Honestly, people have started living with stress so much so that they have forgotten the fact that it wasn’t a part of life. Consider reminding yourself about any of the tasks to be undertaken routinely….you’ll find that it is, in fact, in one way or the other associated with some sort of tension/stress.
Trying or adopting any measure would require investing some amount of time. This is also one of the reasons one does not consider a life free of stress.
And finally you’ll find yourself asking, what is the need to stop worrying about something when the whole world is doing/living the same way!
So let’s know why it is important to combat it.
Stress in our body stimulates the sympathetic system per se the fight or flight response. This response raises the heart beat, increases blood pressure and raises the glucose levels of blood without actual requirement, thus predisposing the body to cardiovascular ailments, Diabetes like conditions, a higher risk of cancer, accelerated aging and psychiatric disorders like depression. The disturbed neurological and endocrine system owing to it, also increases caloric intake and decreases physical activity, thus contributing to peripheral obesity.
So it is very well clear that apart from contributing to an unhappy state of mind, stress also enhances the diseased state of the physical body.
Thus, we need to fight it for a better lifestyle overall!
Meditation and its biomechanics
The next question to be answered is how to combat stress?
Former solutions like counseling or advising do not work anymore or may work merely on a chunk of people.
No medication offers a solution free of side effects.
So what is an effective solution!
Meditation has been proposed to work miracles in this regard. Let’s see how it works.
Meditation works as a strengthening factor for cellular DNA. A strong DNA would make more of positive proteins and inhibit its self destructive molecular sequences like NF-kB (nuclear factor kappa b) and cytokines. These molecules are responsible for causing the fight or flight response at the cellular level. Thus, meditation directly infuses positivity at the very microscopic level itself.
How to adopt meditation in life?
Fortunately meditation is really easy to practice and incorporate into life, even easier than the involuntary action of breathing.
Chanting a phrase/mantra for apotheosis that is to achieve highest point has been in practice since the existence of cosmos.
All that is required is repeating the words gifted by a true Saint. Then adopt the 15 minute meditation rule to start with.
i.e., establish a morning and evening meditation regimen that lasts at least 15 minutes each.
The benefit of meditation will work as: first entertaining your mind in the practice, then healing your body and soul and finally setting straight every task of your life.
Also do not hurry for the fruit. The process of neutralizing the pessimistic state, cleansing the soul and filling in positivity takes different time for the different base powers of different souls.
Other benefits of 15 minute meditation:
Despite demanding such a minimal time of one’s life, meditation offers many solutions to today’s hurdles.
- It helps manage anger. And ofcourse, a peaceful mind is open to better understanding
- It can enhance memory and cognitive abilities of brain, thus helping in academics as well as in various tests of life
- Meditation can work as a medication to numerous health problems because it can strengthen the immune system by empowering soul, the cause to life
- Lesser efforts into a work, but enhanced fruit out of it – is a simple motto of meditation
Thus needless to say, benefits cannot be counted. All that is required is to test it. So challenge yourself and give it a try!
