Fitness: Spend Quality Time With Self By Meditating

Meditation, or the art of being with yourself, has become a very popular concept. In mainstream USA, things once considered purely spiritual have become fashionable images and are as much cosmopolitan as they are healing. Store windows display Buddhas with candles, advertisements use images of models sitting cross-legged to sell products, and even yoga master Rodney Yee is featured meditating for mattress sales.

At the most basic level, mediation is the art of being with oneself. Meditation is an invitation to take time out from our busy lives and spend some real time, some quality time, with ourselves on a deeper level. It is time to find out what's really going on inside us.

In Western society, meditation offers an antidote to our incredibly busy, overstimulated, Blackberry-addicted, iPod-plugged-in life, which can lead to heightened stress, anxiety and a sense of losing touch with our core values. Conversely in the East, where general health, well-being and life expectancies outweigh and outlast ours, meditation has been a traditional spiritual practice for thousands of years. It's part of a tried and tested path to peace of mind.

Before you begin, there are a few things you'll need to know if you want to tune in to this calming art. (MORE)

Source: news-press.com