Some people report that they experince headaches when meditating or after meditation sessions. There are several reasons for these headaches.

The mind needs some time to adjust to meditation. It is usually restless and unfocused, and meditation requires a focused mind, and as few thoughts as possible. Since the mind is not accustomed to a state of calmness and focus, it resists this new situation. This resistance, together with the pressure on the mind, caused by the focus and meditation, cause headaches.

This is the same situation when you feel your muscles and body aching after working out or walking, when you are not accustomed to do so.

In addition to the above, there is another factor contributing to headaches. Do you tense and contract your body when you focus your mind? Many do so instinctively, as if this will help them concentrate. This is a mistake. Tensing the body doesn’t aid concentration. It just wastes energy and can cause exhaustion and headaches.

How to avoid headaches in meditation?

Here are a few suggestions:

1) When meditating, sit comfortably with your back straight.

2) Take a few deep breaths before starting to meditate.

3) Be aware of any tension in your body and relax it.

4) Remember, keeping your body tense, and tensing your lips and forehead do not asisst concentration and meditation, but they can cause headaches.

5) When you feel that your head is starting to ache, stop meditating. Don’t tense your mind and brain too much. In time, your mind would get accustomed to meditating and the headaches will leave you.

Articles about meditation and how to meditate:
Meditation Articles

Napoleon Hill was born on October 26, 1883 and passed away on November 8, 1970. He was an American author, who was one of the first authors who wrote ans publicized the connection between success and the powers of the mind. His most famous book is “Think and Grow Rich. which is one of the best-selling books of all times.

Napoleon Hill wrote about the power of belief and faith, and the role they play in achieving success. One of his most known saying is, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

His formula for success, as taught in his book “Think and grow rich”, is followed by many people who have read his book. This book, and the other books he wrote, are still popular today, and are still exerting a great influence on the mind of the people who study or write about creative visualization and the law of attraction.

Napoleon Hill began his writing career at age 13 as a “mountain reporter” for small town newspapers and went on to become America’s most beloved motivational author. He dedicated many years of his life to define the reasons why people fail to achieve financial success and happiness in their life.

The turning point in the writing career of Napoleon Hill has occurred in 1908 with his assignment, as part of a series of articles about famous men, to interview the billionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who at the time was one of the most powerful men in the world.

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How to Increase Willpower – Tips for Building Willpower

Willpower is often associated with losing weight, quitting smoking or sitting down to read and study. Actually, it is useful and necessary in all walks of life, in sports, achieving goals, self improvement and in meditation. It is a skill well worth developing.

It is said that the imagination is stronger than willpower, and that what you imagine again and again, eventually affects your subconscious mind and turns into a habit. This is true, but when you possess willpower you can tell your mind what to think and what to imagine, and you can insist on acting in a certain way. Without willpower you just let passing thoughts and whims dictate to you what to do. By building willpower you gain the ability control your imagination. 

Willpower helps you focus your mind on the goal and hold it there, without being sidetracked. How can you succeed, if you keep changing goals or changing your mind?

So how do you go about building and increasing willpower?
You can do so by training and developing this skill by special exercises.

Here are a few tips and strategies for building and increasing willpower:

Do a little more
Read one more page before you close your book.
Wash one extra plate when you wash dishes.
Walk another two minutes when doing your daily walk.

Respect your decisions
When you decide to do something, do it. Don’t procrastinate or change your mind.
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Livescience has published an article about a research made by scientists about the brain and willpower.

Brain’s Willpower Spot Found

By Robert Goodier
Source:
www.livescience.com/health/090506-willpower-brain.html

When healthy eaters choose broccoli over a Butterfinger, they use a small region in their brains that indulgers don’t use.

That bundle of cells is a clue to the biology of willpower, a new study finds. Like a wagging finger in our heads, the region admonishes us to consider long-term benefits over instant rewards when we make decisions.

“This is the first time people have looked at the mechanism of self-control in people who are making real-life decisions,” said Todd Hare, a Caltech neuroscientist who led the study.

To zero in on the nodule that imposes willpower, Hare and his colleagues scanned the brains of 37 people who called themselves dieters. During the scans, the subjects pored over 50 photos of foods. They rated the foods according to taste and healthiness.

Some foods, such as Wheat Thins and granola, earned strong “neutral” marks in both categories. For the final test, scientists showed each volunteer a food that they had labeled “neutral” and asked them to choose between it and each of 49 other foods.

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I have news for you. SuccessConsciousness has launched a new forum, which replaces the old forum.

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