{"id":889,"date":"2022-08-15T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T01:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/?p=889"},"modified":"2023-06-28T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:51:48","slug":"the-power-of-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/the-power-of-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>\u201cMeditation practice does calm us down \u2014 and this is important, but it is much more than a tranquilising technique. Meditation is a powerful way of getting deeply in touch with your life at its most essential level.\u201d <\/em><br><em>\u2014 Norman Fischer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve no doubt heard that meditation is a powerful practice, but do you know why? Meditation helps to strengthen your focus, attention and presence, which are arguably some of the most valuable qualities in modern-day life. The practice does this by activating the parasympathetic nervous system (ie rest and digest), which slows down your heart rate and blood pressure, countering the effects of stress in the body (ie fight or flight). Meditation is also a form of deep rest and healing. Research has shown that 20 minutes of meditation can be equivalent to four-five hours of deep sleep! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beauty of meditation is that anyone can practise it, anywhere and anytime. There are so many different styles of meditation \u2014 from Vedic to Vipassana to visualisation to contemplation \u2014 so if you\u2019re new to the practice, then it\u2019s worth trying out a few different styles to find what you resonate with the most. We explore the myriad different styles of meditation, as well as how to practise them, in our <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wellbeingshop.com.au\/products\/mindfulness-workbook\">Mindfulness Workbook<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By carving out a dedicated time to simply be with yourself \u2014 just as you are \u2014 you\u2019re deepening your capacity to be present, curious and compassionate. We strengthen these tools in our meditation practice, but we put them to practise in the everyday moments of life that challenge us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMeditation will not carry you to another world,\u201d Zen Master Hsing Yun once said, \u201cbut it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live.\u201d To have a practice readily at our disposal that can enrich the moments that make up the days, weeks, months, years of our lives \u2014 what could be more valuable? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMeditation practice does calm us down \u2014 and this is important, but it is much more than a tranquilising technique. Meditation is a powerful way of getting deeply in touch with your life at its most essential level.\u201d \u2014 Norman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}