Being A Student Is Stressful: Meditation Can Help August 10, 2010
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Being a student can be a great experience. You’re studying a subject that you’re interested in and enjoying the opportunity to get involved in new activities and make new friends. For some of you, it might be the first time you’ve lived away from home and you’re relishing your new-found independence.
But student life isn’t fun all the time. It can also be stressful and difficult. Students face challenges such as intensive study schedules, social pressure from peers and the risks of drug and alcohol abuse. The life of a student isn’t just an exciting time of opening to a universe of knowledge, it’s a first-hand introduction to some of life’s most intense pressures.
This is why you need the deep rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation of meditation. You learn better when you are happy and relaxed. And there’s an even better reason to consider meditation : What better time to expand, deepen, and clear your mind when learning is your first priority? This is just when it really makes sense to begin to unfold your full creative potential. Studies have correlated the practice of meditation with higher creativity, increased intelligence, and improved memory. That’s because meditation not only clears the mind, but opens a person to the deeper, silent, creative levels of thought.
Scientific research verifies that meditating develops increasing use of the total brain. Students practicing meditation enjoy:
- Development of hidden brain reserves, greater creativity, higher IQ
- More efficiency in learning new concepts, improved academic achievement, better grades
- Improved standardized test scores on general academic achievement
- In addition, specific meditation techniques can help with Speed Learning.
Students that practice meditation enjoy increasingly happy, healthy, problem-free lives. Spontaneously they are able to fulfill their own interests while upholding the interests of others. Research confirms that students who meditate experience :
- Less stress
- Increased creativity
- Less anxiety and depression
- Improved memory
- Greater emotional stability
- Increased learning ability
- Better concentration and focus
- A sense of fulfilment and purpose
- Improved self-confidence
- Greater awareness and intuition
There are many ways you can learn to meditate. Using traditional techniques, learning to meditate would take many months, or even years, of practice – with no guarantee of success.
With a Meditation Machine (also known as Mind Machines), such as our MindSpa system, you can take the Fast Track to Meditation. Meditation Machines combine modern technology with ancient wisdom to enable you to meditate easily and automatically and start to receive the benefits immediately.
— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.
You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
