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Reversing the Aging Process

In my last blog posted, I mentioned that I have been meditating for two hours per day. Once in the morning and once at night. I’ve been meditating for over three months, but the type of meditating that I was doing in the beginning was more like a power nap. I don’t mean it’s the same thing, I mean that the time was much shorter. Like between five and 15 minutes. Sometimes I’d sit right here at my desk (I still do) and I’d get quiet and pay attention to my breathing. I just have to make sure I’m not sleepy or I might doze off. It’s happened.:)

When I was having some weird dreams or whatever they were (no people, only the feeling of a presence), when I’d wake up in the morning, I would stay in bed, lying on my back and take 6 long, deep breaths. I got a lot of energy when I did that and so I continued that routine.

And then I had a dream which changed that routine. I still take long, deep breaths, after the dream I increased my meditation practice. It’s strange though because in the beginning I think I paid too much attention to the time. I just noticed a few days ago that I was meditating for more than the 30 minutes that I thought doing it. It had increased, naturally to one hour. Well, it seems natural to me. My body seems to know. I don’t keep a clock near me to check.

I’ve read what the benefits of meditating and in the beginning, the main one for me was for stress. Not that I was stressed out, I wanted to prevent it from happening. Or at least lessen the chances. It’s working.

I’ve also read that it can reverse the aging process naturally. If you want to look and feel younger, you can meditate, get expensive injections or you can take supplements. I read that any of them will help produce human growth hormones that are already naturally produced in the body by the pituitary gland but decrease as we age.

“By quieting the mind, which then quiets the body, and the less turbulent the body is, the more the self-repair healing mechanisms get amplified. In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That’s how meditation lowers biological age.” ~ Deepak Chopra