{"id":2151,"date":"2011-11-08T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2011-11-10T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T22:59:34","slug":"the-way-to-awaken-to-your-highest-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2011\/11\/the-way-to-awaken-to-your-highest-potential.html","title":{"rendered":"Awaken to Your Highest Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What can you do to live a happy, healthy and successful life?<\/span>
\nFollowing your life’s purpose and proper principles is a good start.<\/span>
\nAnother key ingredient is letting go of any negative and limiting beliefs and patterns.<\/span>
\nThis is the process of transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most powerful ways to transform any limitation is meditation.<\/span>
\nWhen you meditate your entire being and energy centers, and come into harmony.<\/span>
\nThis cleanses negative energy, beliefs and behaviors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meditation has amazing benefits and can heal.
\nIt allows you to detach from your daily routine and pressures.
\nBy letting go, you are able to connect with your natural essence and source of energy and life.
\nThat essence of you is calm, peaceful, well and whole.
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“Meditation is a great adjunct for a lot of things, from chronic pain to improving sleep, helping reduce blood pressure and coping with stress, anxiety and depression,”\u00a0 Dr Craig Hassed, senior lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Melbourne’s Monash University<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent study by Harvard instructor Dr. Sara W. Lazar, has shown that meditation can help to increase brain function, reduce the effects of aging on the brain, and improve concentration and memory.\u00a0 Meditation creates a unique state, in which the metabolism is in an even deeper state of rest than during sleep. During sleep, oxen consumption drops by 8 percent, but during meditation, it drops by 10 to 20 percent.\u00a0 The calming hormones melatonin and serotonin are increased by meditation and the stress hormone cortisol is decreased<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Not only do studies show that meditation is boosting their immune system, but brain scans suggest that it may be rewiring their brains to reduce stress\u2026 Ten million American adults now say they practice some form of meditation regularly. The Science of Meditation, TIME magazine (cover story).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Studies of long-term meditators in the general population (as opposed to monks) found that they paid out significantly less money to doctors \u2014 and their long-term heart disease costs were reduced by 87%.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The positive effects of meditation — increased calm, ease, center, poise, and balance — are now bolstered by over 4 decades of scientific research and more than 700 scientific tests conducted at universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford as well as on going studies at MIT, University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Your inner calm is an optimal state in which you are most resourceful. Your memory improves, as does your ability to think laterally, create options, gain perspective, and problem solve creatively. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Meditation is one of the most powerful paths to actualize your highest creative potential and heal any aspect of your life that is out of balance.\u00a0 It supports you to have proper beliefs and to take positive actions for your greatest good.\u00a0 Meditation also empowers all that is healthy and successful to expand and prosper to even greater levels.
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\n\ud83d\ude42 Lee<\/span>
\nThe Mega Coach<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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