However, meditation has become very popular in recent years; it has been around for thousands of years and appears to have stood the test of time in various other cultures. If you want to know about the benefits of mindfulness meditation then learn this here now.

23 Amazing Health Benefits of Mindfulness for Body and Brain

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Meditation has actually witnessed 4,500 years of political upheaval and socioeconomic transition (Andreson, 2000). In short, if meditation was useless, would it exist and be practiced thousands of years later? Probably not.

In this article, I will provide a simple explanation of the meditation process, it's psychological, physiological and spiritual benefits, as well as a brief description of my personal experience.

There are different types of meditation, but Levin notes that "the difference in technique is mainly due to the main object on which the process is focused" (Levine, 1989, 8). In this way, I will base this article on mindfulness meditation (vipassana), which involves direct participation at all times, as it is done with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

The focus of this article is on mindfulness meditation rather than concentration meditation. Mindfulness meditation involves a dynamically inclusive field of observation. It includes the depths that surround us, rather than exclude the world, which is more practical for the average participant in Western societies (Tacon, 2003). 

Kabat-Zinn (1994) also suggests that mindfulness can benefit many people in Western societies who may not want to embrace Buddhist traditions or vocabulary. Therefore, mindfulness meditation is much more suitable for our society than discussing various meditation techniques from the Eastern tradition, because it is simple, practical and detached from Eastern philosophy and religion.