Nowadays, many people still believe that meditation is just sitting while breathing heavily or a waste of time. This is because of the lack of a proper guidance that suits their behavior or lack of visible progression when practicing on their own and making them quit the training.
However, the proper meditation is the simplest ways to find peace and tranquility of mind and to raise your morale to shield yourselves from the struggling and chaos that cripple your body and mind in this modern society.
According to the essay written by M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, which was published in 5th page of the “Siamrath” newspaper on July 19th 1973 on the topic of “Westerners’ Meditation and Buddhist Meditation”, it can be concluded that at that time, many of westerners practiced meditation. The trend began with “the Beatles” taking an interest in meditation and learnt to practice it from India meditation teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Since that, meditation became popular. In the end, M.R. Kukrit talked about
the differences between westerners’ meditation, which its purpose is for relaxing, and Buddhist meditation,which is the right meditation and right mindfulness. The eocinstitute.org has examined thousands of academic papers and dedicated to research the art of meditation in the topic of “Amazing Benefits of Meditation”. According to the study, it found that practicing meditation is beneficial to adjust your seven hormones and chemicals that necessary to our brain and body, which are: