SPLENDOROFYOGA -- PART -- 13

ANXIOUS MIND WILL LEAD TO TROUBLED HEART......LET US KEEP ANXIETY AT BAY BY DOING A SIMPLE MEDITATION.
With Most modern illness being rooted to anxiety, stress can only be considered to be synonymous with slow death.
Be it insomania, migraines, ulcers, hypertension, gastritis,constipation, forms of cancer and even heart problems, all can be induced by depression and anxiety.
Even a study on the occasion of the World Heart Day, on September 28, showed that women are more susceptible to coronary or heart diseases because their arteries are narrower than that of men.
According to the study, the primary factor for coronary diseases among modern world women is the stress they are subjected to at work and home. to add to this depression, over working, higher level of frustation at work and excessive family tensions, create greater aggression and takes a toll on the quality of life of women today.
Because of the life style changes the women are cornered to stress. The mortality rate among women suffering from cardiovascular diseases today is higher than that of men across the world.
Stress, then could be one of the many reasons for acquiring a heart ailment.

MEDITATION SAFEGUARDS BODY AS WELL AS MIND.
As the mind is in the state of self hypnosis, whatever you command to your mind is accepted and registered in the subconsious mind. If you practice MEDITATION early in the morning you will be astonished with the experience you get and it will surprise you.
When this exercise reached completeness our mind gets prepared for MEDITATION.
By meditation not only the organs of the body but also automatically and independently functioning parts can be brought in to control -- is said by a scientist. There is a connection between SLEEP and MEDITATION. In both of these states one is controlled in allways and keeps us healthy. HYPOTHALAMUS is stimulated. In sleep we are unconcious whereas in MEDITATION we are unconcious while being concious.
MEDITATION withers away tensions and purifies the mind and keeps us active,sharp and brisk. We can feel the awakeing of self awareness keeping us alert. Knowing oneself should be the only noble target in the sea of life, hence benefits will arise innumerably.

METHOD
Sit erect on a carpet, close the eyes; now search in to the closed eyes on the dark screen; then thought must settle on inhaling and exhaling. Then take a vow "Let the mind jupm wherever it likes; let it go wherever it wants but I won't open my eyes for 5 minutes." And remain in the pose.
After some days of practice increase it to 10 minutes and later on step by step increase it to 20 minutes. During the time of closed eyes just count numbers from 50 to 01 (depending upon the time, make it 30 to 01 or 20 to 01). For beginning this is enough.

LET US DISCUSS MORE ABOUT MEDITATION IN MY NEXT UPDATE....