Yoga Day 2024: 21st June every year is celebrated around the world as International Yoga Day. It is a global celebration of yoga established by the United Nations in 2014. The UN felt it was important to promote yoga, an ancient Indian health practice, internationally as it has been proven to have great benefits for physical and mental health.
Meditation is an important part of Yoga. The path from movement to silence, from sound to silence is meditation. In all of us, beneath all the noise and bustle of the mind, there is a beautiful area that is whole, intact, quiet, serene and pleasant. In meditation, you focus your attention on this silent space. This silence purifies the mind, giving you the relaxation you need and creating space for a fresh perspective on life and its challenges.
Furthermore, let’s take a look at the 7 spiritual benefits that yoga and meditation can bring to your inner peace.
7 Mental Benefits of Meditation and Yoga
1. Balance your mind and spirit: Regular meditation balances the heart and mind and cultivates sensitivity and discretion. When knowledge, understanding and practice come together, life is complete. As you advance to a higher state of consciousness through meditation, you find that you are no longer thrown off balance by various situations and disruptions. Consistent meditation can nurture your nervous system and maintain calm, vitality and heightened awareness throughout the day, greatly improving your quality of life.
2. Peace of mind and contentment: Our environment is affected by our thoughts. To spread happiness, you need calm and contented people. Happiness and serenity will be generated within you through meditation and the ripples will spread in different directions on the planet. If you do well, the atmosphere, energy and people around you will also be good.
3. Brightness: When you meditate, you get into a state where nothing can steal your smile from you, it relaxes you, rejuvenates your cells, and releases all the toxins and bad feelings trapped inside so that no matter what happens, your smile will remain firm.
4. Spiritual Awakening: Spiritual awakening through meditation helps you to let go of past attachments and move forward refreshed and reborn. With repeated practice, it will become natural to carry only what you need. To free yourself from within, meditate. Regular meditation brings great inner calm and happiness that is beyond comparison.
Meditation has several benefits. It keeps you mentally sharp and in control, physically strong and healthy. It also aids in intellectual acuity, quick attention, awareness and observation. (Image source: Canva)
5. Mindfulness: A state of conscious awareness is meditation. With awareness, a sudden change occurs within you. By practicing meditation, we become more aware that everything around us is constantly changing and that we are only observers of this unfolding of events.
6. Personal transformation: Meditation induces true personal transformation. As you become more self-aware, you will inevitably discover more about yourself and begin to value yourself. As your meditation practice deepens, you will seamlessly move from being something to being one with the infinite and begin to realize that you are an integral part of the universe.
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7. Gratitude and Abundance: With gratitude, nothing is lacking. Conscious gratitude develops naturally through meditation. Abundance comes from cultivating gratitude.
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