Why A Hobby Like Meditation Is Good For You

Think of meditation as a sport: of reaching a goal, a goal that brings happiness, or fulfilment. When you practice meditation, in this mode — simply, sensibly, and without jargon — it decreases the hubbub of your life. It also makes you feel better — in word and deed.

- Dr R G Pal

Our mind isn’t — quite simply — a metaphor. It is part of an extraordinary link that exists between psychology and biology: of mind and body: of how they have been dexterously fabricated, by evolution, over the millennia.

Having been once the basic nature of fairy tales, imagination, poetic licence, or folklore — and, now New-Age literature — we can today, thanks to scientific evolution, construct a modernistic dimension for a fascinating subject. We’d dispel notions about its status, now at loggerheads, and strongly entangled between two vastly different realms of thought… Logically, we’d, in so doing, also engineer a sound ‘coup’ of sorts: by including the increased scientific evidence that mystifyingly connects the brain and the immune system. The best part — though they are two jolting — or, composite — operational companions, they earnestly endeavour to operate together at all times. Paradoxically, they could also be at odds on occasions. It’s only when the interaction between them becomes disconcerted that we become ‘game’ to illness.

A QUESTION OF BALANCE

In other words, sickness of the mind, or the body, reveals how our systems work — and, why loss of equilibrium often leads to a breakdown. To bring a sense of cadence, or measure, to this element, we’d also draw on a wealth of information related to the latest biological and medical findings, especially in our age run amuck by stress, or psychosomatic illnesses, and in the light of the glorious connections that already exist between ancient puzzles, the brain, behaviour, immunity, and disease.