Meditation has been around for thousands of years. Historically, it was supposed to help the holy men, the sages, the medicine men acquire a deeper understanding of the mystical and sacred powers of the world in which they lived. Today, it is commonly used as a tool, a strategy, a process to reduce stress.
Meditation is an accepted mind-body practice in complementary and alternative medicine or integrated medicine.
Life in modern Britain can be a difficult place; with a struggling economy, constant torrents of doom and gloom in the press and many of us spending far too much time working, it's easy to see why so many people are suffering with stress or diseases caused by it. With so many of us spending more time than we should at work and spending several hours working when we get home, it's easy to get stuck in a rut and think that all there is to life is stress and work, battling in increasingly competitive workplaces, trying to make ourselves seem invaluable so we can't be fired in the event that the company has to downsize and booking time off for a holiday seems like something we just can't do.
Your mood correlates completely to your focus of thought in every moment. You know this because you can feel it change moment to moment as you go about your day. You win a contest, a date is canceled, your boss shows appreciation, your doctor tells you he found a lump, you leave work at the end of the day, your favorite sports team wins, your favorite player is traded away, etc.
It's easy to get stressed these days - the economy's on the rocks, we work too hard trying to keep our jobs in light of this, Nickleback are always on the radio; it's easy to spend our days wound too tight, and this isn't the best thing for our hearts or our quality of life.
With many people trying to make themselves seem invaluable to their companies so they cannot be laid off in the current economy, working environments can be more cutthroat than ever, with many people having working lunches and bringing an hour or so of work home with them as well; for many of us the idea of taking a holiday is out of the question until we know our jobs are safe.
It is easier to bear a grudge against an enemy, easier to build walls than to let them go. Far easier it is to bask in righteous indignation than to admit that perhaps in the larger scheme of things, we are not all that right; perhaps we might even be wrong. Sam Keen once said,"Our problem lies not in our technology, but in our minds, in our ancient tendency to create enemies in our imagination.
Stress Management
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