All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. The mind is like a pond. On the surface you see all the disturbances. Yet the surface is only a tiny part of the pond. It is in the depth of the pond, where there is stillness, that you will come to know the true essence of the pond, as well as your own mind.
Meditation affects both body and mind.
Meditation is a self-directed practice for relaxing the body and calming the mind. It has been estimated that the average person has 60,000 separate thoughts each and every day. By relieving stress, meditation lowers the level of harmful stress hormones that inhibit immune function and interfere with our natural healing processes. And by increasing body-mind relaxation, meditation eases the pain created by panic and fear. Morning StarLight enables you to enter a meditative state quickly.