Meditation – a way to find harmony

Meditation is a way to relax and rest from the stress in your everyday life. But it is also a way to develop from within and get insight about who you are.
-A big goal with my meditation is to find true happiness, says Per Hägglund who has experience from some years with meditation as a usual element in is everyday life.
Many people search for true happiness in their lives. In religion or in their own beliefs, in the perfect career or in money! Often people of today forget that true happiness comes from within, it is not a cliché. One way to find harmony and internal balance in your life maybe is meditation.

Meditation is a aged discipline which will help you to relax and to get a better view on your self and life itself. Meditation often describes as a exercise of relaxation and spiritual or self development. But meditation can also be seen as a concentration exercise. A concentration exercise to help you to not think of anything and rest your mind. A comfortable position and the right way of breathing are some important elements which will help you to relax and find strength in your life. -Meditation for me is a quick way to resume energy. But also a instrument to achieve internal freedom and increase my consciousness, says Per Hägglund who is a ordinary 25 years old Swedish. He started to meditate after he had read a book by Alexander J Markus. -He described a meditation technique for increased consciousness. I felt it was worth a try, and then I discovered how fantastic it really was.

To do nothing
You can say that meditation is to do nothing. But if you have tried to do nothing sometime you know that it is not as easy as it sounds. If you are used to always do something when you are awake, it is hard to suddenly do nothing. And it is the same thing with your thoughts. Thoughts comes and goes, it is hard to just ignore them, particular In the beginning. But Per have some advice for those who want to start meditate.
-Use earphones, they help you to relax and to not be disturbed and interrupted by noise. An other advice Per had was to listen to some good meditation CD:s, it will make it easier to concentrate.
-You can find much music for meditation, it will help you to relax. In the beginning you can lay down when meditating, it is often easier to relax then, it is a good start.

Stress makes us think
To be able to live in the present is to be able to focus and concentrate. Meditation can help to live in the present through the concentration exercises, which is a big part of learning meditating.
Concentration on one object, one thought or repeat some words or a song over and over again is some ways to help to not think while meditating. It is hard, because stress makes us think more active on our problems and everything you do during the day. Meditation can help to counteract the mental stress. It is not only the body who needs to rest from the stress.

Religious or just a relaxing technique
As a relaxation technique it is nowadays widely spread over western culture. People need this relaxing at intervals to survive the day with all the stress factors which constant affect us every day in our western society.
It is in the religion were the spiritual aspects of meditation shows the most.
Religious meditation exist in almost every religion, more or less. But religions which often are associated with meditation are Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism. The founder of Buddhism is Buddha and in almost every picture or statue of him he is sitting down meditating.

The meaning with meditating
Per says that he feel a big difference when he had meditate a lot compare to when he had not.
-I feel an Internal calm, I am happier, and I can easier solve everyday problems.
At the end Per added that the big goal with his meditation of course was to be aware of the whole creation.
-finding true happiness and not having to feel any needs from the mind is a big but not impossible goal.
Is meditation the right way for you to feel true happiness? Only you can find it out! And the only way to find it out... is to try it.