Meditation and Inner Peace Guide: How to Meditate for a Peaceful Life

   Meditation can help you calm your mind and focus on things that help you make your life peaceful. It has several benefits such as peaceful sleep, increased focus, stress-relief and improved mental health.

In this guide, we have discussed why you need meditation for inner peace and how it can transform your life.

How Meditation Works?

Naturally, we all have an inner state of happiness and satisfaction. In our inner state, we feel healthy and alive, not much influenced by world.

The state is innate and, in this state, even the negative thoughts cannot influence our mood. But you cannot tap into this state without meditation. 

To enjoy this inner state of peace, you need to align yourself physically, mentally and emotionally. You need to get rid of the outer problems or forget your problems for a limited time period and focus inwards to achieve the inner peaceful state. 

Why Meditation?

You might feel overwhelmed or caught up in trying to concentrate and negative thoughts can blur your thinking.

When your focus shifts from things that are important for you in life, you lose the motivation to live happily. Your mind can create a pattern of negative thoughts that can overwhelm you and keep you out of touch of the things that bring you joy and fulfilment. 

In modern world, stress is usually dealt with temporary measures such as overeating, or drugs. Therapy may not help a lot of people in improving their mental health and satisfaction in living their life, this is where meditation comes in.

Meditation is a long term and independent solution. Even your therapist will tell you that only you can change your situation, so what is better than taking control of your situation and finding the inner peace that exists within you.

People who meditate find it easier to accept reality and find happiness in what they do, and strive to achieve what they really want in life.

Benefits of Meditation

There are numerous benefits of meditation, but some common and most important ones are:

1.  Endorphins: Stress relief hormones

Endorphins are hormones that are secreted in our system as a result of a peaceful meditation session that improves our mood and enhances our sense of well-being.

2.  Focus and Decision-making

Meditation can elevate our brain function and improve our focus that allows us to control our ability to concentrate and make better and more informed decisions. 

3.  Analytical Abilities

Naturally, humans are equipped with analytical abilities that allow us to use logic and reasoning in our day-to-day life. Meditation can help you hone our analytical skills and improve our creativity and productivity.

4.  Calm Attitude

Stress and fear are very strong emotions that control how we react to different situations. Meditation helps us overcome these strong feelings and stay calm in most situations.

5.  Emotional and Intellectual Depth

Meditation helps us control our emotions and use our intelligence to form good relationships, make better choices, and balance our work-life.

6.  Self-love and Acceptance

Meditation helps you shift your focus inward that teaches you compassion and love for yourself. Everyone is a child that grew up and let the world decide everything for them.

This is where meditation helps you find your true self and that pure child-like self that desperately needs the love and acceptance from their older self. 

Dimensions of Meditation

1.  Physical Dimension

Our physical dimension is our body existing in the world that not only surrounds us but also impacts us. When the physical body is going through illnesses, it can also impact our inner peace and happiness.

Chronic illnesses such as digestive issues, headaches, back pain, weight issues and inflammation can also cause stress, and anxiety. It can make you feel uncomfortable and increase irritability.

To restore physical balance, you need to consider a change in your diet and lifestyle to become healthier. The body and mind need to be in sync. A healthy body is crucial for a healthy mind and healthy mind for a healthy body.

Get yourself a nutritionist or a doctor’s appointment if there are any health issues that are keeping you stressed and irritated.

Once your physical dimension is clear and prepared to connect to the other dimensions, you are on your way to achieving inner peace and satisfaction. 

2.  Emotional Dimension

Although emotional dimension is to be influenced by meditation, it is important to take care of a few things that can improve our emotional well-being and reap greater benefits of meditation.

An emotional imbalance can be in the form of trauma, anxiety, deep rooted emotional issues, and feeling stuck, you can restore your emotional well-being by implanting feeling of love and forgiveness for yourself in you. You can also seek help from friends and family to help you feel better.

3.  Mental Dimension

Mental dimension can get filled with negativity due to overthinking. If your mental health is suffering, it is important to take a step back and relax while you observe your thinking pattern.

Avoid getting into situations or conversations with yourself that make your mental health suffer.

If you hate going to a bar because you end up drinking and thinking about things you hate about yourself, stop going there.

If you don’t like to stay up late because you overthink and cannot fall asleep, try to tire your body during the day or use sleep meditation to fall asleep sooner. 

Do all the things that are needed to break the habit of overthinking and negative self-talk. Repeat to yourself affirming words and know that in your heart that you deserve peace.

Start Meditation

When you have taken care of all three dimensions: physical, emotional, and mental, you can move to meditation that will help you sync these dimensions and transform your life.

 Feeling satisfied and peaceful can-do wonders about how you see life and the world around you.

Remember that it is indeed only ‘You’ who can help you achieve inner peace!