"When calm your mind and your senses, you become conscious of your always-present inner Self"
Meditation has been around for approximately 5000 years. It just became prevalent in the West in the 1960's with the advent of the Beatles and there following of transcendental meditation. There are over 100 different types of meditation. Meditation is found in every faith tradition and spiritual discipline. What you hold in your heart as your believe system is what you bring to your meditative practice. You or your teacher, based on the information you've told them, decide on your intent for meditation.
Some call it a mystical practice. Maybe it is. It is the way to touch God within. To calm and center yourself. Stress is reduced, you feel better, others respond to you in a different way. If practiced correctly its a total mind-body complimentary medicine. Meditation daily to clear away the overload. There's a a reason meditaiton has been around for so very long - it works.
