Earlier today, I was conducting a meditation session for a group at Youngstown Ohio when I tried to simplify and summarize top benefits of meditation. It occurred to me that sometimes life needs to be very simple.

While we all are looking for something out of it, at Sahaja Online we undertook an endeavor to unearth every possible benefit, the scientific backing behind it and shared it all with you.

But can we provide a simplistic view of the top 3 benefits? A simple upshot of what is possible with meditation? Here it is.

Yes, you’ve heard all the standard stuff about meditation – relaxation, stress relief, becoming calmer and so on. But there’s a lot more to meditation than what 99% of the forms of meditation claim or can do. Sahaja meditation is deeper than most other forms and below is a list of amazing benefits of meditation that you may not have heard before.

At Sahaja Online, we have covered the scientifically established benefits of Sahaja meditation extensively. But even we haven’t included some on our comprehensive list of benefits. That’s because there are always those intangibles that science can never measure, which of course doesn’t mean that the benefits don’t exist.

For starters, we’d like to clarify that by family, we mean any group you’re associated with that makes you feel happy, welcome and share the bond with others in the group. It could your workplace, the circle of friends, the group of people you play tennis with, your actual biological family or most relevant to us, the collective group of meditators or yoga practitioners you associate with.

Meditation can make a world of difference by cementing your place in any family. It can make you the most loved, sought after and respected member of the family. This can fill the void in your life with help and assistance being available to you whenever you need it, whether it’s emotional support, physical assistance or just about anything.

So, how does meditation do it and why is it special?

The news cycles these days are brimming with how Artificial Intelligence is taking the world by storm. There are tall predictions and fat hopes for how AI will change our lives forever, primarily because of their ability to use vast amounts of data, analyze information at very high speeds and make decisions that humans make today. In other words, replace the form of human intelligence that human beings have with intelligence that is supposedly more powerful. And likely much better because it makes fewer or no errors, with no bias and of course no emotions involved.

A couple of days ago, there was an article about Google used AI to create the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.

A while ago, I had written a fairly long account of how Robots will force us to meditate more. The same verdict holds here too. AI is pushing human beings to find something superior and better than the kind of intelligence that AI is going to replace very soon or has already. Case in point above, who needs bakers who struggle around experimenting how to bake great chocolate chip cookies? AI can take over that and do it much better.

But there is another form of intelligence that very few people know about, it’s better either artificial intelligence or the human intelligence that’s acquired through learning, training, and experience. This is the intelligence we tap into through our power of intuition within us.

Meditation is almost a fad these days. Just about anyone is offering a new technique or method for just about any application. And while there certainly are good meditation techniques out there, sometimes they miss the mark. For instance, the NY Times recently published an article titled “How to be Mindful at a Wedding.” Have we forgotten how to enjoy a wedding? Do we really need a new meditation technique to do so?

And then there are the spa-like meditation offerings, promising rejuvenation, pampering, and relaxation. Is that really all there is? Can meditation really be defined so simply? Or, are these types of meditation merely skimming the surface?