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Meditation Improves Your Attention

Highlights of an article on health benefits through meditation, I saw this morning from Dr. Mercola's site. Meditation is just one of many non-drug tools you can use to improve your physical and mental health. Earlier this year, I ran an article about the ways regular meditation changes how your brain works, not only in the short term, but possibly permanently.

One of the ways it might do so, apparently, is by increasing your ability to maintain attention. Numerous scientific studies have confirmed the health benefits of meditation.

One earlier study found that people who underwent eight weeks of meditation training boosted their immune systems.

Other ailments meditation can be useful for:
Stress, tension, anxiety and panic
High blood pressure
Chronic pain
Headaches
Respiratory problems such as emphysema and asthma
Sleep disturbances
Gastrointestinal distress
Fatigue
Skin disorders
Mild depression
Premenstrual syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome

Paying attention seems like a very prudent move, as we move through each day fulfilling the many roles we play on this center stage called life. The holiday season is now in full swing and staying in balance is usually a challenge for most of us.

This year to make it easy for my mom who is now 76, and has been inundated with the self-imposed "GUILT" trip if she does not buy presents, has agreed to a new tradition at her home. In lieu of the usual gift exchange, a Christmas Blessing Basket has been decorated to adorn her dining room table, and it will be filled with family and friends wishes and blessings they individually have written and will place as offerings into the basket.

Thoughts are things - thought is energy! What you think you will create. The reality that we exist in has been created by our thought forms. It is my INTENTION that BALANCE will be the new buzz word that fills the hearts and minds for all of us, thus creating lasting PEACE ON EARTH. If you can imagine a scale of justice in the window screen of your mind, and now see when either the left or right side is off balance, the usual chaos theory will occur, for the Laws of the Universe will create the energy to bring order and balance again back into the equation.

I'm not sure any one of us has had long periods of being in balance. As humans I think we love the drama, but certainly for some their roles must be getting a little old. Meditation practices can certainly help us to achieve these moments of feeling at peace, and the more we can achieve this balance, life takes on a whole new expression.

Give yourself a present this year - permission to enjoy your BEINGNESS - being in LOVE WITH YOU! Our very own "PRESENCE", being PRESENT to OURSELF and to others in a BALANCED way, is the gift towards Peace and Goodwill to all Human I ty.

Wishing all of you a "Balanced" day filled with love, peace and joy.

K