Meditation - is a way of focusing, which allows you to get rid of the emotions. Virtually all religious teachings is the practice of concentration, concentration on some external object or an internal state for exemption from vanity, that is, from any emotion. This allows you to see your life, or just the situation as if the part that is already a lot to solve this or that problem.

What is Meditation in terms of modern psychology

The main purpose of meditation is to bring the human mind into a state of deep concentration. As a result of daily practice of meditation can eliminate the heightened emotionality, that will greatly facilitate human adaptation in the social environment. Against the background of the regular practice of meditation a person has a state of detachment, elation and a sense of flight. He pulls away from external influences and inner experiences, and how to consider them from the outside.

The practice of meditation is based on certain rituals that allows a person with time quickly and efficiently to dive into the desired state. Nowadays there are many methods of meditation, when the starting date is the actions that are available to everyone. With the development of the abilities a person begins to use more sophisticated techniques to achieve balance of mind and detachment from emotions.

Meditation has been known since ancient times. Plato used it with their students to achieve the so-called philosophical ecstasy. This condition allowed them to reach the required heights in theoretical thought, including mathematics.

The elements of meditation are present in virtually all the world's religions. In Hindu and Buddhist yoga Yoga - the way to preserve youth and health of skin   it is the main way to achieve religious liberation in Christianity (in particular in Orthodoxy) - to achieve union with God (for example, using the Jesus Prayer, which performs in this case the role of mantras).

Psychologists not escape his attention meditation. Thus, the famous Swiss psychiatrist CG Jung wrote a paper "Psychology of Eastern meditation" which determined the value of meditation as a psychotherapy practice.

Practical basics of meditation

Meditation - a spiritual practice. It allows you to achieve full concentration on a particular external or internal state of the subject and thus to suppress their emotions. External objects, used for meditation, contemplation of the ocean can be (including in the form of video or audio recordings to modern techniques), candlelight, listening to music. Because of the internal states of meditation is most commonly used breath - focuses on the exhale.

Meditation - it is a simple practice, the only thing it requires - a constant repetition. Regular classes allow you to quickly enter the desired state, free from unnecessary emotions, make it possible to understand any life situation and find a way out of it.

How to begin meditation

Start with better concentration on the breath - that this exercise is the basis of all of Eastern meditation. Focus on your own breath is necessary in order to allow the mind to the possibility of focusing on the breath, get rid of the constant "racing thoughts." At the same time, do not be afraid of such changes and worry about the fact that they happen. You just need to quietly go back to concentrating on your breathing.

If you hold such exercises with breathing every morning and evening for ten minutes, then soon you will see that they are well removed increased anxiety, agitation, anxiety, help reduce blood pressure, reduce heart rate.

Eastern practice of meditation recommends to sit on the floor in special large cushions in the lotus position. But this is not necessarily quite possible to meditate while sitting in a comfortable chair with a straight back. Necessarily have to be the position of the spine - it should be just right, otherwise the right meditation will not work, because the Eastern teachings spine moves energy (prana in Indian philosophy and chi in Chinese) - if the spine is bent, prana moving nowhere. During the lessons of meditation a person should be sure that it does not hurt anybody in the next ten minutes - it is also very important. So:

• should sit on a cushion or chair; spine straight, shoulders relaxed and the forearms, hands on his knees, his chin is parallel to the floor, eyes lowered and fixed at one point;
• prepare for the fact that the breath should be full - it means that breathing involves not only the chest, and abdomen; mentally "see" all of your muscles and relax them;
• breath - count to four, exhale - to eight, then a break of up to two and over again; all attention is focused on the breath, extraneous thoughts come and go, they do not need to pay attention;
• after the end of meditation is necessary to maintain concentration during the day - this will remove unnecessary emotional stress and more productive to address emerging challenges.

If at first you do not succeed, and thoughts will "fly", it does not matter, all the matter in the regular classes. Meditation - is a wonderful thing that allows a person to know himself better and to adapt to the world around them.

Galina Romanenko