Hi friends welcome back to daily breath I'm the Park Chopra.

A new series is called Total Meditation. If you'd like to learn even more about what we'll be covering in this series, my new book Total Meditation,

practices in living the awakened life is now available in both hardcover and on digital

platforms.

Meditation mode exists in everyone to serve as a basic purpose that is totally necessary.

Your mind goes into meditation mode out of the need to be in balance.

All meditation practices stem from this need. We must try to

understand it. The deeper our understanding, the more valid total meditation will be.

So when I say balance, what do I mean?

Balance is a good English word for self-regulation. In biology we use the word homeostasis.

Homeostasis means constancy of the internal environment, the physical environment internally, biological processes,

self-regulation or homeostasis, a state of dynamic non-change in the midst of change.

So if you exert yourself, your heart rate, blood pressure will go up,

but when you stop that activity,

everything will return back to normal or what we call homeostasis.

Every bodily function knows how to return to what we call home base.

The capacity to regroup and rebalance is embedded in us. Think of your body's ability

to regulate its temperature even under extreme conditions.

Your body stays at approximately the same temperature,

98.4 degrees Fahrenheit,

give or take a little bit up or down.

There is a resting place for mental equilibrium too.

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