Although meditation offers a wide range of physical and emotional benefits, spiritual awakening and enlightenment are the main goals of meditation for many people. Regardless of your specific religion, religious or spiritual beliefs, a regular meditation practice brings you closer to your inner self and higher power.
Patience, tolerance and kind thoughts are virtues of nearly every religious tradition. The practice of meditation creates feelings of inner peace and improves focus. This peaceful state reduces negative or prejudicial thoughts and increases tolerance, patience and love for everyone.
Through meditation you can experience a sense of connectedness with the infinite and other beings. This sense of feeling connected to God and every other being on earth increases feelings and expressions of kindness to others, including strangers.
The spiritual benefits of meditation can have a transformative effect on your life. Meditation quiets the noise of everyday life and allows you to experience the stillness that can change the way you relate to other people, life and the larger world around you.
The stillness and inner peace of meditation results in focus, clarity and a sense of purpose. Often, through meditation people who are wondering about their purpose or facing a crossroad in life are able to find and fulfill their purpose.
The practice of meditation can help you let go of feelings of anger. There is a good reason that anger is considered to be a deadly sin. Anger is destructive to the person experiencing anger and the angry person’s friends and family members. By letting go of the anger, you can find the doorway to peace and happiness.
In addition to increasing feelings of love and compassion toward others, meditation can help you be compassionate to yourself. We are often harder on ourselves than anyone else in our lives. Negative self talk causes a wide range of negative feelings, self doubt and low self confidence that can interfere in all aspects of life. To gain the full benefit, practice meditation regularly.