The value of meditation
I started meditating recently and have been asking myself — What is the value of meditation? In looking for an answer, I considered the possibilities in the usual 4 areas of our composition and came up with the following.
Emotional
- It makes us calmer
- It makes us happier, more positive, more cheerful, more hopeful
- It increases our emotional self-control
- It increases our ability to bear the emotional pain
- It increases our empathy
- It increases our ability to forgive others and ourselves
- It reduces our egoism and increases our humility and modesty
- It increases our emotional intelligence
- It helps us solve our most difficult emotional issues
Intellectual
- It increases our understanding of people, life and the world
- It increases our intelligence
- It helps us solve our most difficult practical problems
- It makes us better at our work or occupation
Spiritual
- It enhances our spirituality
- It brings us closer to understanding God
- It helps us know Nature
- It helps us answer our most difficult spiritual questions
Physical
- It increases our physical self-control (diet, exercise, habits…)
- It increases our ability to bear pain
- It re-energises our mind
- It makes us physically healthier
- It encourages us to take up closely aligned practices such as yoga or tai chi
Or,
- All of the above
- Some of the above, varying by the individual (but then which are the top 3?)
- It is not useful and is just a long-running fad
- It has some other value(s)
As I meditate, I am personally finding that it certainly seems to be helping me, although I am not yet sure exactly how or how much. I am also hoping that through me, my mediation is also supporting the people around me.
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