Many people think that meditating is a difficult thing to do, especially in relation to spending a lot of time in a thoughtless position. But meditation is not just this. Meditating is joy, movement and calm of the mind and that there are many techniques, many of which are really suitable for us Westerners.
According to the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO), health is "the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and cannot be understood as a simple absence of disease" . Psychophysical well-being is achieved with a state of harmony of body and mind, in relation to internal stimuli and external stimuli, and is a dynamic process, in which the goal is to tend towards homeostasis, that is, to balance. The body-mind unity opens the door to the use of bodily techniques taken from ancient oriental traditions, such as yoga and meditation.
We live in a society oriented towards competition and materialism in which interventions are needed that reopen this growth process and lead to a harmonious evolution of human qualities, from the most physical and behavioral levels, to the emotional and relational level, to the psychological and intuitive levels, to the point of touching the dimension of the profound and of spirituality. Developing a mindfulness attitude in everyday life affects our ability to master the difficult situations in life, giving greater power to manage stress, conflicts and ordinary and extraordinary problems.
Meditating educates the mind to transform destructive emotions with ways of being more constructive, which promote equanimity, love and wisdom (or, more simply, amplify the inner resources in search of their own adaptation to stressful situations). Meditation allows the improvement of mood and therefore promotes a better state of well-being, through the development of inner serenity.
The effects of meditation are both on the central nervous system (improvement of inner resources and resilience, raising of the emotional set point), and on the body (improvement of arterial pressure, immune system and neuromuscular relaxation capacity).
