That Meditative Glow

Believe me when I say that meditation makes you glow. I first noticed the changes to my skin quite by chance. I was at a conference and while using the hotel’s bathroom mirror to reapply my lipstick, I notice a slight glow around my face. My first thought was ‘nice lighting’ since there was nothing else I could ascribe it to. Adequate water, exercise, proper diet, sleep, regular visits to my favourite facialist were all things I have been doing on the regular but there was never any glow before now. In trying to recall, the only change I had made to my physical lifestyle was a deepening of my meditative practice. So could it be that?

I went to google and there I found a number of articles, most based on conducted research, that spoke about this glow that meditation provides. Several of the papers explained the benefits of meditation from a physiological perspective and went into details about blood flow and skin and epidermal layer and capillaries; I read and smiled.

I had an added answer.

Regular meditation connects you to yourself. The process allows for that divine spark in all of us to be lit. It is there, it has always been there but being in this challenging physical plane has successfully snuffed it out. We live in constant fight mode, always some challenge to overcome, some battle to win, someone to conquer or outsmart, everything is competition since as they say, only the strongest survive.

But once we begin to understand that universal abundance is here for all of us to have a share of, that our purpose on earth is to experience life and be happy, to find love and to live, to sit in quiet meditation and do nothing, we will begin to notice that glow.

Meditate, get your glow on!