The Biggest Myth and the Honest Truth About Meditation
One of the biggest myths about meditation is that the purpose of practice is to experience bliss or to enter ‘nirvana’.
Yes, it’s true that many turn to meditation as a way to calm and steady the mind. As the mind becomes more quiet, physical functions like breathing and heart rate slow; we can begin to move from a state of “fight, flight or freeze” into a more natural resting state of physiological calm. Calming and steadying of the mind can be a helpful result of meditation.
As our body and our minds experience more calm, turbulent emotions can settle. This is healthy because humans, like other mammals, are not equipped to live in a perpetual state of heightened anxiety, vigilance or fear — a state governed by sympathetic nervous system activity.
