What will meditation do for me?
Even as little as ten minutes meditation every day will make a noticeable difference to your life. Meditation is a form of training, so the more you do, and the more consistently you do it, the more you'll see progress.
What progress can you expect?
You'll find
that things that used to "push your buttons," you
can
now face with calmness.
You will experience
more confidence.
Your relationships
with others will become more harmonious.
You'll feel happier.
You may well sleep
better.
You'll accomplish all these things by learning more about the way your
mind works. You'll learn to recognize unhelpful patterns of thought,
feeling, and action
that tend to make you less effective. These unhelpful patterns include getting
unnecessarily angry, or feeling despondent.
You'll learn how to let go of these patterns.
You'll also learn how to choose to respond more creatively, in ways
that allow you to remain calm and aware of the effects of your actions
on yourself and
others. You'll learn, for example, how to calm your mind and how to develop
more empathy
for others. You'll learn to have more patience with yourself and others.
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