The title of this article may seem a little strange. How can I say meditation does not work when there is a vast amount of research which seems to show that it does? Much research, in the scientific field, points to the fact that meditation can; make you healthier (both emotionally and physically), make you look younger, bolster the immune system, help you recover faster after operations, reduce stress, help you to live longer, remove past emotional issues and alter negative beliefs.
Even those who have never heard of binaural beats have elementary knowledge of meditation though it may be slightly misguided. Although meditation is becoming more popular in the western world it has been practised for thousands of years in the East. It is only recently that binaural beats have been used to create the same effect.
When everyone else was listening to Guns N' Roses, wearing tight jeans with baseball boots and perming their overgrown hair, a man called Bill Harris was busy creating a truly unique personal development product - Holosync. Harris's Holosync product centred on the idea that you could listen to a CD and enter a state of meditation akin to that of a Zen Buddhist Monk.
Problems? Sleep over it and daydream the solution in less than twenty minutes. Meditation is a key practice to help you keep your mind focused on what ever you decide to think to. And an unemotional, objective mind is a lot more efficient at problem solving than a mind distracted by the emotional burden of fears and hopes.
Meditation is the method of choice for spiritual practice in many religions. The benefits of meditation don't stop at this level though. Your mind and body benefit immensely from meditation. There are few drawbacks though, one should be aware before taking up meditation. The problem is ... within us. We all carry a baggage of traumas buried deep down in our subconscious minds. These are unpleasant events, consequence of our own or other people actions that affected us. Our minds try to protect us by covering up these experiences. In other words, we forget. Or do we?
Brainwave meditation is achieved by external stimulus (mostly sound signals) that matches the brainwave frequencies specific to deep meditation states. The brain is exposed (e.g. stereo headphones) to two different sound signals (binaural beats). Further on the brain integrates these signals in a process called brainwave entrainment (synchronization) with the differential frequency as the output. This frequency produces similar effects with classical meditation techniques.
Meditation has been around for too long to be just another buzz word in the multi-billion dollars wellness industry.
Meditation is indeed the method of choice for one’s spiritual evolution but this is not the benefit discussed in this article. Rather the focus is on meditation immediate benefits for your mind and body. There is not only anecdotal but also more and more scientifical evidence that meditation benefits both your mind and body in a synergistic way: your mindset influences the body and at the same time your body helps your mind go further on its quest for evolution.
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