It might be tons of work in your office or problems with your friends and family or something like breakup, whatever it may be that put you in heavy stress, you can easily release it completely by practicing meditation.
Meditation can help you get relief from your stress and it is considered as the best technique following from ancient days. It not only relaxes your body, it also relaxes your nerves and mind and give you clarity.
But, you need to know how to do it effectively to relieve all the stress from your body. If you are interested to know everything about meditation and benefits, just keep on reading.
How Meditation Helps In Relieving Stress?
Meditation is an ancient technique that helps to bring mind and body together to balance the stress. It not only relives you from stress, it also helps you to get rid of certain health issues associated with stress such as insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, heartaches etc.
According to several researchers, following meditation everyday leads the brain to alter its neutral pathways and make them more resilient to stress.
Staying focused on certain things like a word, phase or even breathing while meditating induces relaxation and create sense of balance in your mind. This sense of balance often helps to increase self awareness and space in your mind to organize your priorities in life.
The best part about meditating everyday is, it helps you to be calm in everything you do throughout the day. It also helps to develop skills to manage stress better and reduce negative emotions, increase self awareness, patience, tolerance and everything that leading you to stress more.
Meditation helps you to get relief from the stress only when you do it in a particular manner.
Let’s see how to do meditation to balance your mind in a particular manner with all needed steps.
How To Do Meditation For Relieving Stress
First of all, you must know types of meditations you can do for relieving stress and follow the steps shown below.
We need to choose 4 things for any type of meditation. They are:
- Place
- Position
- Breathing
- Paying Attention
Place
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Place plays a crucial role while meditating. Choose quite place in your home which has medium lighting and a provision for fresh air to come in. the place should be make you feel more comfortable while you meditating.
Make sure to remove all the gadgets and things that provide disturbance in your mind to create soothing and positive vibes in the place.
Position
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A comfortable position will help you to relax your body by lessening the distraction. Choose the perfect position which makes you feel comfortable and make sure to not to fall asleep while meditating.
If you are not comfortable by sitting on the floor, you can even choose a wooden chair by keeping your back straight and your foot firmly on the ground which is parallel to each other.
Breathing
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Take a breath slowly and observe how the air goes in through the windpipe to the lungs. Notice how it comes in the same way and feel it and be thankful for it.
Inhale and exhale slowly while meditating and make a count of 1-10 while you breathe in and breathe out.
Pay Attention
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Paying attention is one of the important things you need to do while meditating. Because when you are meditating countless negative thoughts attack you, make sure, not to respond them by just concentrating on your breathing.
Make sure to do meditation by vippasana, it is the perfect meditation technique to combat stress.
