Mayo Clinic on Meditation

The Mayo Clinic reports that, in addition to stress reduction and relaxation, meditation helps conditions such as allergies, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic pain, depression, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Don't confuse the word helps with cures. Still, meditation can really enhance the quality of living for someone suffering from these debilitating conditions.

The Mayo Clinic also offers advice on fitting meditation into your lifestyle, everyday ways to practice meditation and how to practice your meditation skills. Check out the full article here.

7 Meditation Techniques for Beginners

I came across a great article today that surveys seven simple meditation techniques for beginners. Try out some of these and see how they work.

108 Meditation Techniques

For your meditation sessions to be more effective, you should try out a variety of techniques. The Meditation Society of America offers a list of 108 meditation techniques that can be found here. At this point, only some of the techniques are hyperlinked to instructions on how to perform them, but the Meditation Society is working to provide instructions on each of the 108 techniques.

Might be worth checking out.

Learning How to Meditate

Meditation is very simple and offers a wide variety of benefits. Just a few minutes of meditation a day can provide calmness and clarity in your life. If you're new to meditation, you might want to check out the simple instructions offered here.

You don't have to follow a specific technique for meditation to work, but some techniques are more effective. You'll have to experiment a little and find what works for you.