Archive for April, 2009
Learn how to meditate for beginners and experts. Enjoy the this simple technique for longevity and health.
1. Relax
Adopt a passive attitude. There is no wrong way to meditate.
2. Get comfortable
Find a comfortable sitting or lying position in a place you will not be disturbed for 10 minutes or more.
3. Pick a focus word
Pick a word to use like love, peace, or the word one.
But, the most common focus word in 90% of situations is the word “One.”
4. Use the focus word to interrupt your inner dialogue
This is where the fun starts! Start by saying your focus word “One” in your head.
Then, every time you find your mind wandering use the focus word, “One”, to interrupt the inner narrator. How?
You will find that you might end up saying the word “One” over and over again in your mind. The goal is to experience the silence of the mind. In brief…
One of the most vicious diseases in today’s times is smoking. It makes a person baffle for air 3 times more than a non-smoker. It has very many repercussions on the life of the smoker and those around him. It leads to lung cancer and various heart diseases like asthma and emphysema. We should thus abhor this deadly disease and quit smoking.
Quitting is not easy :
But to actually quit smoking is not easy, because it is an addiction. However there are very many ways and methods that help us to quit smoking for instance we can opt for acupuncture therapy or aromatherapy. We can also opt for non-nicotine cigarettes or go for precise prescription by a doctor.
But first and foremost we need to decide in our heart to stop smoking and should also fix a day for the same. Inform your family about your decision and seek for their help and assistance. Throw away all the cigarette packets, ashtrays and lighters. Stop buying any more cigarettes. Rather think of the more useful and better things that you can buy with the money thus saved. Ask the other family members also, who smoke, to stop smoking. Keep yourself busy. Exercise regularly and meditate occasionally. Eat healthy food.
After doing all this you may still feel severe urges to smoke. You may also actually retort back to it, but that’s no problem, just be persistent and bring back your decision on to the right track after this break, because most of the people are successful only after 2-3 attempts.
Be prepared for withdrawal symptoms:
About 80% people retort back to smoking after once leaving it and only 20% uccessfully accomplish the task. People retort back due to many reasons. Some say they feel agitated. Others say that the aroma when someone lights up is irresistible. But most of them do so due to the fear of symptoms that appears after that last puff viz. weight gain, aggressive thinking, dry throat, fatigue, muscle cramps, constipation, dizziness, hypersensitivity to stimuli, etc.