SOUND BODY IN A SOUND MIND: A GIFT OF MEDITATION

Dr. Kuntal Thakur and Arijit Kumar

ABSTRACT

Only a healthy bud can blossom and in the same way, only a healthy being can succeed. Man is a union of body and mind. They are an integral unity and inseparable. One cannot function without other and one affects efficiency without other. In modern life style has high exposure to anger, hate, fear and other negative emotion. Meditation helps an individual overcome these emotions to facilitate a calm peaceful mind and healthy and stress free body. Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their mind or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit. The earlier clear references to the meditation in Hindu literatures are in the middle Upanishads and the Mahabharata, which includes the Bhagavat Gita. Meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind peaceful, we will be free from stress, worries and mental discomfort and as well as our body will be healthy. The purpose of the present literature is to find out through meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. The researchers concluded that the practice of meditation brings coolness to the brain; it’s like servicing the whole body and mind complex. Meditation develops happiness, contentment and calmness. It reduces anger, irritation, hate, anxiety, tension and fear. Meditation maintains lower blood pressure, lower the levels the blood lactate, improves immune system, increases body vitality, controls insomnia and increases overall health of the body.

Keywords: Sound Body, Sound Mind and Meditation