Meditation involves focusing your mind on a single object, often a sound, prayer or your breath, in order to clear your mind and achieve a sense of calm and heightened awareness. It is generally found in most religions, particularly eastern religions such as Buddhism.

Meditation is becoming a popular tool to enhance personal or spiritual development and is also used for health and stress management. It has been used to help relieve problems such as anxiety, chronic pain, depression, headaches and stress. Some research has shown that the regular practice of meditation can be a powerful healing tool.

Added benefits of meditation include a greater faith in your religion and feelings of peace and happiness. However, there have also been experiences of spiritual phenomena surrounding meditation.

Mediation can bring great rewards to some people, in the coming weeks we will be looking into books, tapes and products that we can profile on our website.