20220930 - Watching The Breath Fundamental

Why meditate? Leo Babaouta from zenhabits.net describes it like this: Why practice mindfulness through meditation? Actually, there are lots of great reasons. Here are a few (read about research on meditation for more): - It relieves stress and helps you to relax. - When you practice mindfulness, you can carry it out to everyday life. - Mindfulness helps you to savor life, change habits, live simply and slowly, be present in everything you do. - Meditation has been shown to have mental benefits, such as improved focus, happiness, memory, self-control, academic performance and more. Some research on meditation has indicated that it may have other health benefits, including improved metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and more. Those are just the highlights. Actually, some of the best benefits of meditation are hard to define — you begin to understand yourself better, for example, and form a self-awareness level you’ve never had before. Most simply, sitting for just a few minutes of meditation is an oasis of calm and relaxation that we rarely find in our lives these days. And that, in itself, is enough.