A Healthy Mind through Meditation

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Nowadays, our health and wellness do not only rely on the foods that we eat, the fluids that we drink, the exercises that we do or the vitamins that we take. 

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True wellness of oneself also includes a healthy mind - a mind that is free from stress, negative thoughts, and depression. Based on a saying about how our thoughts can become our destiny, we can conclude that the thought which comes from the mind is where our habits start. Thus we ought to have a healthy mind. 

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But the question is How can we attain the latter? to this end let me share my number one recommendation in having a healthy mind. This is called "Meditation". I have read many articles on many websites about the benefits of meditation to the health of the mind most of them are proven and backed by science. So here are some of the takeaways which helped me establish a sound mind supported by a profound sense of Fear in God.

1. Relieves Stress - By practicing the act of keeping the mind in complete stillness, the unwanted thoughts that often come over and over again are flushed like waste from the toilet.

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2. Improves Focus - Because of our restlessness from handling our everyday tasks, we come to appear as a computer with overloaded RAM with which is confusion inevitable. But through meditation, as we deeply program our mind in the rhythm of stillness, our focus on doing one thing at a time is significantly harnessed.

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3. Increases Pain Tolerance - Since while meditating, relaxation is attained by the mind by the body as a whole, pain is kept at bay. In fact, according to ScienceDaily, "Meditation could be a cheaper alternative to traditional pain medication, study suggests"

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4. Makes a person happier - After relieving the stress, flushing out the unwanted thoughts, and relaxing the body as a whole, surely a person can be happier.

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So after reading this, you may want to go somewhere quiet even inside your house and start establishing a healthy mind of yours like never before.