Tuesday 25 January 2022

How to Discover Yourself through Journal Writing


Journal writing is not only limited to the young girls in their teenage. You can reap a number of benefits by writing journals at any age. By writing journals, you will be able to bring out your hidden emotions, anger or any other feeling that you may have. It is a sort of therapy that relieves a person and helps one in self-discovery. 

 

Now those not acquainted to journal writing may ask what exactly journal writing is. Well, journal writing is not a professional writing, but just a daily writing if the daily works done by a person or writing down the feelings, emotions and or anger of a person into words. Even if you do not do it daily, you may write every few days or once a week. It does not require any expensive kits, just a pen and a notepad. That is enough! Studies show that if you release your feelings into words in the paper, then you can get much relief from the daily stresses of life, and in this way, you can discover a new individual within you. 

 

You may ask how you discover a new individual within you simply by writing journals. Here is a detailed explanation of the process. Writing journal can help you discover the real you within yourself. In a journal, there are both happy as well as sad moments. This is because when you write down your feelings in a journal, you write down all the feelings you had in a day. 

 

For instance, if you are sad with having the same old job without a raise in salary, you can write down your frustrations. On the other hand, if you have seen someone a day and your heart flattered, you write that too. Therefore, when you read the journal later on, you will be able to find out what exactly makes you happy and what makes you sad. Thus, you are able to discover yourself unknowingly by writing journals. 

 

Further, when you write journals, that is you release your pains, frustrations, anger, anxiety, depressions, fear or any other feelings into a piece of paper, you get the feeling like sharing with your best friend. This feeling of sharing tends to calm you down and lighten you. Moreover, as you calm down, you seek solutions to your problems or think about those feelings if they are good. Thus, journal writing is a great way to discover you as a new individual. 



Strategies to Discover Yourself


Many a times, it may have felt the need to change something in order to taste success. Alternatively, you may have wanted to do some other work in life and the problem is you cannot identify what to change that will make you satisfied. It is only when you identify these things, you discover yourself. Nevertheless, the question that comes up is how to identify the changes. 

 

Well, there are many ways to discover you as a new individual. One of the best ways is to create journals. Many persons have discovered themselves simply by journaling. They are now leading happy and peaceful lives. We can say that by journaling we can release out the anger or any happy or sad feelings that we have within ourselves. That will make us a calm person and the ability to take decisions by ourselves. You may ask how journaling will make us a happier person. Well, if you stick to certain topics while journaling, and then you can do journaling in a proper way. 

 

Besides writing down your daily feelings in the journal, write down a certain list too. Write down the list of things that you like to do. Write about circumstances, events or sensations that you love. When writing the things you love, also write down the feelings that you have when you face these situations. 

 

Write down some activities that can even make you stay wide-awake at night. Again, write down the feelings related to these activities. Write down some points that you would love to do during your childhood days. Ask yourself question like, if given to do such activities, would it make you feel happy the same way as it felt in childhood. Write down the names of few people who you would like to follow. Include the traits you would like to follow and the attractions. 

 

Write down the names of the places that you would like to visit. If you had been there before, then write down the feelings of the past you have had when you visited there. Write down some things that you want to achieve and about the feelings, you may have after achieving it. Finally, write down your feelings on the topic if you would die the next day. 

 

After writing down all these feelings in a journal, you will get a sense of satisfaction within you and you will unknowingly discover yourself. 



Ways to Discover Yourself


There are millions of people in this earth coming from different regions with different religions with different colors of their skin and different cultures. In spite of so many differences, one thing common among all is that every human being has come to this earth or planet with a purpose. Again, the purpose may vary from one individual to the other. Many a times, you may have role models whom you want to follow. 

 

Many people instead of looking up to their role models, copy their role models. This is not to be done. You may have a role model, but always look up to him or her and do not copy him or her exactly. By doing this, you lose your individuality and end up being a person with no purpose. Be yourself and have a definite purpose in life. That way, you can discover yourself. 

 

To discover yourself and understand your achievement abilities, you have to understand the basic fact that you are bound to face obstacles when achieving target. For instance, when a baby is growing, he first learns to crawl, then he slowly learns to sit, then he learns to stand and then finally, he learns to walk and run. The little child does all this with the aim to hug his or her lovely parents. In spite of the obstacles he faces, he reaches his aim and hugs his parents after several tries. Thus, with this simple example, you can understand that while reaching your target, you have to face obstacles, but you have to overcome them. 

 

Focus is yet another important related to self-discovery. Many people do not know how to focus on a goal. They simply spend their time doing things that are a waste of time or simply useless. Therefore, when you strive to reach the goal, you have to focus on the tasks that relates to the goal and not on some other tasks. 

 

You have to understand the truth of life, that is, every human being is born on this earth to serve this earth in one way or the other. He or she does this by helping each other, which in turn serves the earth. In other words, everything on this earth is interdependent on each other. 

 

Finally, to discover yourself and achieve success, you have to lead a disciplined life. A haphazard life leads to obfuscation and no use. 

 

Thus, these are simple ways to discover you and become a successful person.



What Are the Factors That Can Make You Discover Yourself?


Self-discovery is not a thing that happens by its self. Certain situations and factors lead us to discover ourselves. When we grow up, we have to pass through many unwanted situations in our life. These situations make you discover yourself. Listed below are some factors with detailed descriptions.

 

Practicing experience is the most important factor to discover you. Many a times, you have thought to react in a certain way when faced with certain situations, but when you really face the situation, you react in some other way that may be entirely opposite from what you have thought. This is the time you discover yourself. Even if you think in a certain way, your practical actions are entirely different. This is because we do not want to accept the fact until we face the situation. Most importantly, we do not seek practical experiences show us the person we are and how we can change to our best. 

 

Sacrifices are also a major way to the learning of self-discovery. It is such a point when we have to make a personal choice. It is not that if we do not choose to sacrifice, then we are bad, or if we choose to sacrifice, then we are good. It is entirely a personal choice and you can opt for anyone. Some people may wish to sacrifice, which leads to the self-discovery that they are sacrificing in nature while others who may not wish to sacrifice is called leisurely. Thus, this is again a practical situation of the other way. 

 

Environment is yet another important factor that plays a major role in discovering yourself. The environment in which you stay makes an impact on you and you turn out to be the same kind of person. If you are in a positive environment, you tend to discover yourself as a person with positive outlook, and if you are in a negative environment, then you tend to discover yourself as a person with negative outlook. Thus, the environmental factor is a temporary discovery. However, if you are in a negative environment constantly, then you become a negative person completely.

 

Thus, the elements of self-discovery are transparent and in one time of your life or the other, you get the opportunity to discover yourself. It is important to discover yourself not only for apparent causes, but also for your inner satisfaction.



Master the Art of Meditation and Make It Work for You


Meditation is an art and a practice that many people have come to master in their lives, and it has been proved to work. Meditation has a way of improving all areas of your life, including the social and spiritual areas of your life. Just as laughter is medicine, mediation is even a better medicine to the body and soul. Those who have made meditation to be part of their lives can testify to this. Just as you need to master the art of swimming or working out so that it can work for you, you need to master the art of meditation. 

 

The first thing you need to ensure is that you observe consistency in your meditation. The body works with patterns and rhythms, and this is no exception. No wonder you are advised to have specific meal times so that your metabolic system can adjust, specific sleeping time and duration so that your sleep cycle will adjust and so many other patterns every day. In the same way, the body adjusts itself to the pattern of meditation you have. 

 

Therefore, if you meditate at the specific times you have set, the body responds more and less resistance is experienced. In fact, the body switches itself to meditation mode when the specific time comes. Therefore, you get more out of your meditation times. 

 

When it is time for meditation, ensure that there are no distractions around you. You should ensure that you are totally secluded from every other thing that can take your attention even for a split second. You are the one who knows what your routine is like, and you know the time of the day or night when meditation can be possible with the optimum quietness and peace. Also, the place in which you do your meditation matters. You should do it in a room which you can make a bit dark (do not do meditation in a very bright room or a very dark room). 

 

Also, it should be a room which is conducive for meditation. Make it very comfortable when you want to meditate by clearing all stuff (for instance if it is in your bed room) and even make it better by lighting scented candles. Make it peaceful by even including a live aquarium or a fountain. 

 

Use meditation music for that soothing effect. Also, do not make meditation hard by doing it at times when you are tired and sworn out; make it a tradition for you to first take a nice, long, hot bath or do it when you have woken up in the early morning. 



Meditation—The Best Medicine


Meditation is, without any doubt, the best and most natural form of medicine. It has no side effects, and it is absolutely free. Therefore, why don’t you consider trying it out today?

 

When the word “health” is mentioned, the mind automatically starts visualizing syringes, pills, capsules, drips, nurses and the list is endless. However, it is surprising to know that all these make up for a small percentage of what health really is. Even if your body is 100% fit (quite rare, if not impossible) yet your social, mental and psychological lives are lacking, then you do not qualify to be called healthy. Before you think of killing me because of this harsh remark, you need to know that this is what health is defined as by the world health organization. 

 

When you get into the mode of meditation, the body gets into a rhythm. These rhythms cause the blood pressure to reduce by causing the heart and surrounding cardiac tissues to relax. Also, the muscles of the blood vessels relax alongside other muscles in the body. As a result, those with high blood pressure relax as their pressure is reduced to a point where it is normal and healthy. When this happens, a series of other changes start happening in the body. 

 

Adrenaline is released in lesser amounts, and the person becomes more relaxed and the body organs are at a lower risk than before. When more useful and healthy substances are released into the body, then immunity goes up because the right cells are being formed. 

 

The working of meditation is very simple and to the point. What happens to you when you have abdominal pain and you spend ten minutes focusing on the pain? It seems to increase, and it ends up being severe. Meditation works in the same way only that it works to ensure that positive results are obtained. When you do meditation, you think of a specific thing, say an organ. 

 

However, you do not think of how sick the organ or body part is. You deliberately have peaceful thoughts towards the organ. When you do this, the constricted blood vessels relax and open up, and the flow of blood to this organ or part of the body is increased. Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the organ and tissues, and it also leaves with every waste and toxins in the organ or tissues. Needless to say, improvement is seen.



The Effects of Meditation on Your Health


The health of a human being is very crucial, and billions of dollars are spent every year to ensure that the people are healthy. Healthy people are more productive, and a healthy nation is automatically a wealthy one. However, all this money does not need to be spent on health when there are so many other means that do not need even a dime to be effective. Meditation is one of those. However, I must say that people are becoming more and more aware of meditation, and it is becoming more acceptable across the world.

 

Meditation causes various changes in the different parts of the brain, and these changes bring positive effects on the body tissues and organs. The sphere in the brain that enables one to reason and analyze issues usually pauses and rests when it is time for meditation. This, in turn, makes less adrenaline to be released into the blood, and all the organs become relaxed and they naturally heal from the effects of too much adrenaline. Also, the right signals are sent to the organs. Therefore, the pancreas produces the right amount of insulin for the diabetic and the blood forms the right number of white blood cells for those who are leukemic and anemic. 

 

The sphere that acts as a connection between the person and the environment also goes into a break during meditation. The fact that you are not relating to your surrounding and to the issues that cause you pressure for those fifteen or thirty minutes causes a reduction in stress levels throughout the whole body. The effects do not only last for the time you are in meditation, but the effects are prolonged. 

 

Generally speaking, the brain goes into the alpha state of waves during meditation. There are many other brain waves that the brain operates in throughout one’s lifetime, but the alpha state is the best. It is a state in which the brain coordinates the body organs to work positively and it is a state in which healing happens fast. Therefore, meditation is apt after you have undergone surgery or a certain therapy (like chemotherapy) which has caused damages to any cells or tissues. 

 

Meditation also has indirect effects on health because it helps addicts of drugs and other substances to slip from the addiction. When the addict does right meditation, his mind is able to tune from the addiction and to explore the possibility of being free. Therefore, the person is able to be free from the addiction and, subsequently, the adverse effects of the drugs.



Performing Meditation—The Right Way


Meditation is a very necessary practice for those who want freedom in their health. Health is not limited to physical wellness, but it also covers social, mental, emotional and psychological wellness. Meditation is an art, and there is a specific way in which it should be done so that tin will work for you in the best way. Apart from mastering the art, you also need to be consistent in meditation time and duration. The body has a way through which it tunes itself to the specific time you meditate every day and the duration in which you meditate every day. 

 

Meditation requires concentration, and you cannot do meditation when there is anything that can distract you. Therefore, you should do it after switching off your computer, phone, TV and any other gadget that can be of distraction to you. You may have children, and this may make it impossible to do your meditation peacefully. Therefore, do it after you have ensured that they have slept. 

 

Also, you can do it when they have gone to school. There are specific times in the day when the milkman comes, when the waste management guys come, when the newspaper is brought, et cetera. Because you can estimate the times when all these services are brought, you can ensure that your meditation period does not coincide with these times. 

 

The posture you take during meditation is very important. Most people do it on their beds and couches, and this usually results to them falling asleep. Therefore, meditation should be done when one is seated upright such that the back bone is at right angle with the surface on which one is sitting. This surface may be the floor or a chair, as long as it is firm and not too soft. In order to make the back comfortable, you can use pillows to support. Avoid bending your neck when on meditation; hold it up high, to ensure that there is no strain and that there is full supply of blood and oxygen to the brain and tissues in the head.

 

The first step in actual meditation is to obviously close your eyes and deliberately ensure that your facial muscles are calm and peaceful. Regulate your breathing pattern, too. You should first start with a deep breath, and then you should maintain complete breathing, in that you should breathe in fully and breathe out fully. 



Sunday 23 January 2022

The Benefits that Come with Meditation


We all have daily routine depending on our careers and occupations. A student has a different kind of routine from a professional lawyer, and also different from a full-time mum. However, despite all the differences these lifestyles have, one thing is common; all these people go to bed tired in the evening. Some are tired physically, others mentally and others emotionally. It is even worse for the one who works while studying and then goes at home to perform their parental duties. No wonder people are becoming worn out and sick at very early stages in their life. However, this is not the story for those who have mastered the art of meditation.

 

There are many ways through which we can relax and unwind from all the hustles that come in life. However, meditation is one of those things that are very peculiar. Meditation has many benefits that accompany it if only it is practiced in the right way. It has benefits not only mentally and psychologically but also physically, emotionally and socially. It is a practice that even doctors “prescribe” to their different patients as part of the treatments that will help in recovery.

 

Medically, meditation has been proven to work, though it does this in a very simple way. When you meditate, you put your focus on a specific thing or part of your body. When you do this, this sends extra supply of blood to the part which you are thinking about. Therefore, if you are paralyzed and you focus on your limb that is paralyzed during meditation, then blood flow is increased to the limb and, together with other treatment and medication, the limb starts feeling again. 

 

For those who suffer from hypertension and complications related to high blood pressure, meditation is the right medicine. Meditation causes the circulatory system to relax, and blood pressure is regulated back to normal. As a result, the heart is relaxed and it stops getting over worked. This, in turn, causes other organs to be healthy and the general health of the person is improved.

 

Meditation also has emotional, mental, spiritual and social impact as well. When someone meditates, they go beyond their physical self, and they get energy from a higher power especially a deity. This, combined with the fact that body tissues relax, causes the person practicing meditation to be happy and cheerful. As a result, the person is easier to be with and to relate with, and this person becomes more socially fit that the one who does not do meditation.