Persuasive Essay On Meditation

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Meditation allows for you to relax, slow down, and become more aware of yourself and your environment. By meditating in a quiet place with no distraction, you are able to greatly limit the information that is constantly entering into our brains. This information gives us a train of thought that is very difficult to be halted, because it is in the nature of our brains to analyze any information that we have coming in from our senses like what things we are seeing with our eyes and what we are hearing with our ears. By limiting the amount of information that is entering into the brain, we are able to separate ourselves from the mind that is analyzing all of that information and to become aware of it.

Once you have began to sit in the half lotus position and your eyes have closed, begin to several deep breaths. Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. Do this several times taking deep breaths. Place your attention on the way you are breathing. Think about inhaling and exhaling as you do those things. Your inhales should fill your lungs capacity to the point that you can feel the air expanding your body around your belly. Once you have taken several deep breaths,

Once someone has correct positioning and has began to relax and let go of your thoughts, it can be found that we …show more content…

You think long and hard about something that will interest you, or maybe you see a video on the home page that appears to be interesting. You watch the video and you notice the column that displays related videos. Once you click on a related video, you begin a cycle that can go on for hours until you are forced to stop or that something else calls for your attention. You look at the video that just watched after going down the rabbit hole of related videos and you wonder “How did I get here? This is absolutely nothing like the video that I originally began

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