Why bother with meditation? Why It Matters for Your Well-Being.

Meditation is a process of training or habituating the mind to a designated object of our awareness. 

While some of us have never sat down to a formal meditation session, we are quite familiar with the impact repetitive thoughts, habits and emotional states have on the mind. Meditation then is a deliberate form of habituation, utilizing single-pointed focus to make the mind more serviceable and stable. 

When we meditate the mind can be either very excited/anxious or low/lethargic. When the mind is too fast, we try and calm the mind. When the mind is fatigued we try and uplift the mind. These fluctuations will overpower our concentration if we don’t confront them with a remedy and the object of our meditation session lost.

Balancing the highs and lows of meditation greatly benefits our experience off the cushion. We don’t have to become great meditators to experience significant benefits from practice. 

In clinic, we use acupuncture to relax the nervous system and thus calm the mind but between sessions patients must perform the inverse, learning to utilize the mind to create a sense of peace and stability in their daily life. This mental health partnership is a powerful tool for longevity and well-being and is the gateway for long-term change.