Solve Mid-Life Crisis: Meditation: How It Improves Your Sexual Life

 

This is not to say a ‘midlife crisis’ is not  a negative experience for everyone, and some people make important life changes and decisions under the extra pressure. With regular and deep meditation and midlife crisis rumination, you can begin to enjoy many wonderful years. Hence the saying, "Life begins at forty."
 

Tarak Ghosh

 

The mind is the mother of all good and evil. The mind is the driving force behind any work. We have only two options: either control the mind or be controlled by it. A mid-life crisis is also generated in the deep corner of your mind when you knock on the door of your 40s, and it’s totally a mind-made notion. 

If you want, you can deny the wild call of midlife. In fact, studies show a midlife crisis isn’t an issue for people in many parts of the world. Some researchers believe the notion of a midlife crisis is a social construct. And it’s the belief that you’re supposed to have some sort of crisis in your 40s that leads some people to say they experienced a breakdown. 

The ups and downs of a midlife crisis can be experienced by anyone from thirty to sixty years old, and it can be a time of sudden denial about your age and deep reflection about life choices and achievements.

If you have a desire to feel young again or relive your youth, you are probably experiencing a midlife crisis. Some people believe that aging leads to feelings of depression, remorse, and anxiety. And a midlife crisis is a phase that helps people feel youthful again as they struggle to come to terms with the fact that their lives are half over.

A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in a middle-aged person, typically between the ages of 45 and 55.The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality, and possibly lack of accomplishments in life. This may produce feelings of intense depression, remorse, and high levels of anxiety, or the desire to achieve youthfulness, make drastic changes to their current lifestyle, or feel the wish to change past decisions and events.

The midlife crisis was invented in London in 1957. That’s when a 40-year-old Canadian named Elliott Jaques stood before a meeting of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and read aloud from a paper he’d written.

Addressing about a hundred attendees, Jaques claimed that people in their mid-30s typically experience a depressive period lasting several years. Jaques (pronounced "Jacks"), a physician and psychoanalyst, said he’d identified this phenomenon by studying the lives of great artists, in whom it takes an extreme form. In ordinary people, symptoms could include: religious awakenings, promiscuity, a sudden inability to enjoy life, "hypochondriacal concern over health and appearance," and "compulsive attempts" to remain young.

A national survey of midlife in the United States conducted a poll to determine how many people experience midlife crises. About 26 percent of the participants reported having a midlife crisis. Most of the participants reported that their midlife crisis occurred before age 40 or after age 50, however. That raises the question of whether these crises were truly related to midlife, since midlife is typically considered to begin at age 45.

Of the one in four people who say they had a midlife crisis, the vast majority say it was brought on by a major event rather than their age. Factors that triggered the crisis included life changes such as divorce, job loss, and broken relationships.

Meditation and the midlife crisis should go hand in hand, and the right techniques can help to nip the problem in the bud before it blooms. There are so many processes in Indian meditation that can help you get rid of this mental situation. Regular practice of meditation creates inner peace and a sense of well-being. Broken marriages, upset children, being rejected by someone younger, and possibly wasting money trying to relive your youth could certainly be avoided through meditation. I will tell you later about this meditation.

This is not to say a midlife crisis is a negative experience for everyone, and some people make important life changes and decisions under the extra pressure. Women very often begin new business ventures or leave unhappy marriages because their children have left home and they realize midlife has come upon them. Men, too, can quit their jobs and start working for themselves, or they can change the way they communicate with those they care about.When handled the right way, the energy around this time can be channeled in a positive direction. With regular and deep meditation and midlife crisis rumination, you can begin to enjoy many wonderful years. Hence the saying, "Life begins at forty."

Sexual ability and meditation

The sexual ability of men is a great factor in keeping your conjugal life stress-free and secure. Many people lose their desire to have sex in their forties.Premature ejaculation, low sexual desire, and erectile difficulties are among the most common issues men encounter. Anxiety contributes to many sexual problems. Many people feel nervous about their fantasies, bodies, libidos, sexual repertoires, and ability to negotiate functional sexual relationships. That nervousness causes stress, which, as mentioned, impairs sexual desire and function.

Sex unfolds most pleasurably when people feel calm, centered, and focused on pleasure—their own and their partners’. Even those free of sex problems can benefit from deep relaxation.

In most cases, people tend to think that meditation is just a procedure for clearing the mind of stressful thoughts. However, it is essential to understand that meditation goes well beyond that, and among its abundant benefits is an improved sexual life! Meditation is frequently a solo procedure with the primary goal of assisting you in achieving much-needed self-mindfulness in your life.Studies have shown that the practice is one of the most effective natural ways to increase stamina, which, consequently, boosts your sexual life.

To be continued…

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