Avalon Natural Health Therapies

Meditation

“The mind has its own power, and right now this power is stronger than your present eagerness and determination to meditate.  But if you can get help from your heart, then gradually you will be able to control your mind.  The heart, in turn, gets constant assistance from the soul, which is all light and all power.”  - Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is not only good for the soul but, it is also good for the mind and body.  It can bring about change, increasing our understanding, compassion and clarity.  Meditation is a marvelous technique to focus our thoughts, quiet worries, anxiety and reduce stress and help find inner peace.  By practicing meditation regularly, a person gains a wonderful sense of the self and comes into a harmonious state of balance.

Meditation is the best way to learn how to control our thoughts.  Meditation involves the art of concentration and quieting the mind.  In meditation we not only try to control our thoughts but we also can bring to the fore our inner qualities of peace and oneness.  If we can invoke the calming power of our own heart, then we use an alternative force to take the place of the negative mind.  

We should meditate every day so that we can bring to the fore as much peace as possible into our mind.  If we only meditate when we are overrun with thoughts, we will find meditation very difficult.  But, if we gain peace of mind through our daily meditation then we develop our inner capacities to control our thoughts.   

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