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When your body breaks down it becomes sick. Illness of the body only affects the inflicted individual. However, when the mind is sick, many are affected. Meditation keeps the mind and body in harmony. IV. WHY DO WE NEED TO MEDITATE? We meditate to be happy, to be peaceful, to worry-free, to sharpen our mind and to achieve spiritual insight. We meditate to reduce stress, improve mental health and increase mindfulness, which leads to superior wisdom. The following benefits explain why meditation is so important and useful to our daily lives: V. MEDITATION BENEFITS: Stress-related: leading to: • Reduces stress relaxation • Reduces worries, anxiety, anger inner peace and harmony • Prevents depression, mental pressure more easy-going personality • Improves mental health better physical health • Improves positive mental attitude better outlook in life, better human relations • Improves physical health less sickness, longer life (e.g. better relaxation, Lower blood pressure) • Improves self-control inner peace, more harmonious lifestyle Concentration-related: leading to: • Sharpens concentration and memory efficiency and intelligence, improves learning and work ability • Increases mindfulness more conscious of what is going on around elf • Increases awareness and alertness more responsive, better physical skills • Improves mental clarity smarter, brighter Insight-related: leading to: (better memory + sharp mind = intelligence = right understanding = insight and wisdom) • Increases insight and wisdom higher form of understanding and clarity • Increases sub-conscious intelligence extraordinary mental capacity • Increases self realization and spiritual clarity of purpose • impulse • increases mental power supra-natural capability