Awareness and Meditation to help control your health.

I am reading Deepak Chopra’s new book and find myself reading more then one page sometimes before realizing I didn’t pay attention and catch a word I read. I’ve also done the same thing watching TV and even driving my car. Part of me is paying attention, but most of my awareness is somewhere else. Just about every part of my lessons in complimentary medicine and keeping control of my health has had to do with that word, awareness. Its been explained to me in many different ways but always seemed to come down to needing to be presently aware of what is going on and then making the choices that seem the best for myself. Meditation has been studied and proven to work amazing miracles on people, but no one has looked at the practice a person gets every time they meditate in awareness. After five years I still have trouble getting past 4 breathes in my meditation before my active mind starts to wonder off. Thanks to Deepak Chopra’s preaching that there is no wrong way to meditate, I never felt like I was doing something wrong, I learned to meditate no matter how things turned out. I work on becoming aware of when I start day dreaming and I bring my focus back to my meditation, then a few breathes later my minds wonders and I bring awareness back in, and do the same thing over and over again. If healing equals awareness and meditation equals practice of present moment awareness, then it only makes sense that meditation is a step we all need to take in gaining control of our health.