Thai Meditation: The Joy of Serenity

Thailand is a Buddhist country so meditation has been a core part of its culture for millennia. And it's not only monks who practice meditation but the lay people too, both at the temple and at home. In Thailand, the major form of meditation is known as vipassana, a form of insight meditation.

Vipassana can be done sitting, standing or walking. In its most basic form, it involves concentration on the breath. So it's quite easy for beginners to get started.

It's a wonderful way to bring calm into your life and so enhance your health and beauty. A daily routine of around 15 minutes is all it takes. Remember we are not interested in gaining mystic powers here, simply in detaching our mind from the whirlpool of daily life for a few precious minutes in order to develop serenity in our lives.

Meditation enhances your beauty in so many ways. For one thing, it gives you an inner calm lights up your face and renders a grace which is immensely attractive. Then meditation relieves stress. Stress robs you of your beauty in a multitude of ways. It leads to wrinkles and worry lines, it suppresses your immune system so your skin is vulnerable to attack, and it saps your energy, too.