In a world that is filled with stress and so many burdens on one’s mind, what with work and life and the myriad demands of both. You often feel bogged down by thoughts of work, thoughts of the future, and the fact that there are tremendous pressures to deliver despite all the odds. Step back a little, and find a way to de-stress, so that you can recharge and get right back in order. One of the best ways to do this is to meditate. When you meditate, you attempt to find a way to a clear state of mind, where the cloudy mix of thoughts lifts and lightens things up for a bit. A long-standing and time-tested method, meditation has a long track record of success.
– Meditation keeps you calm. Just spending some time and dispelling all the thoughts in your mind can ease you out of confusion and tensions, and let you sit back a little. The calmness that meditation gives you helps your mind ease itself out in a way that lets it see things with clarity. A calmer mind is a far more efficient mind than a cluttered one.
– Meditation Increases your energy levels by allowing you to channel positivity through clarity. By allowing your doubts and confusion to be siphoned out of your mind, you begin to focus on things that are positive, and things that are a useful way to spend your energy. In the process, your creativity expands, and you get to invest your energies in achievements.
– Meditation helps you focus better, and gives you strong concentration levels. When you meditate, you are practicing ways to keep your mind focused on a particular target. With constant practice, this becomes a way of life, where you allow your mind to focus specifically on the tasks at hand and don’t let you get distracted.
– Meditation helps you let go, and avoid any unwanted energies and influences to play a role in your thinking.
– Meditation helps you with observation, perception, and expression, by allowing you to see things clearly, and to act on them with as much clarity. It helps center and ground you in a way that does not allow you to descend into negativity and cluttered thinking.
– Meditation helps your body’s health improve. Through constant practice, your body begins to experience lower stress levels, and encourages your body processes to ease into a more comfortable frame of operation. You sleep better, you digest better and you remain illness free.

For Indian actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sharmila Tagore, meditation has been a very important part of life. To her, it means calming down, and being in touch with oneself despite the daily buzz and coping with stress. When she practiced mediation, she found herself feeling happier and breathing better. It helped her get over panic attacks and calm down overall, while also sleeping and thinking better, thereby becoming healthier.

References:
http://healthmeup.com/news-healthy-living/meditation-for-clarity-of-mind/15050647
http://www.artofliving.org/meditation/meditation-experiences/Sharmila-Tagore

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