Then close off your left nostril and exhale completely through your right nostril. Take full deep breaths and exhale completely. Alternate as often as you feel comfortable, building up to about 3 minutes. Close your eyes and notice how you feel. When life becomes hectic and stressful its important to have a stress management tool to help us to stay calm.
Meditation is a path to creating and maintaining that place of peace and stillness within.
In a medical study at Duke University, it was shown that people who did stress management after their first heart attack were less likely to have a second. There are probably thousands and thousands of meditation techniques. The point is to calm the mind and find a technique that you enjoy doing. When you begin to try to calm the mind, it will rebel. Thoughts will be constantly pushing their way in.