Meditation, your best tool for finding inner peace (and lots of other goodies!)
Have you ever been so engrossed in an activity that an hour or more has passed without you being aware of it? Then you've experienced a form of meditation. Meditation is simply a way to focus the mind and tap into our own inner stillness, resulting in finding inner peace and increasing vitality and wellbeing on all levels. Transcendental Meditation involves mentally repeating a mantra. Mindfulness Meditation, based on the Buddhist tradition vipassana, focuses on the present moment.
Meditation isn't just emptying your the mind of all thoughts and letting it go blank. That’s pretty much the equivalent of training your mind to be a rock, unthinking, unfeeling and stationary. Meditation is quite the opposite: training your mind to focus deeply on a specific subject, to the exclusion of everything else.A trained mind is a peaceful mind. Meditation harnesses the strength of the mind, making it more powerful and giving you mastery over it. But whether you follow a traditional form of meditation (such as sitting before a candle), or an active one (like a walking meditation), training the mind through regular meditation will bring natural stress relief, increase happiness and help you respond to changes more easily.Meditation can be as simple as focusing on your breath. Click here for detailed instructions on the one of the simplist relaxation techniques going. On the other hand, you might prefer following a guided imagery meditation. (Click here!) The benefits of Meditation are many, here’s a few to encourage your practice: - boosts alpha waves, the brainwaves which occur when you’re very relaxed and peaceful - increases synchronization of left and right brain hemispheres - lowers stress hormones - improves circulation - reduces stress, tension, anxiety and panic - reduces high blood pressure and chronic pain - improves memory - reduces the desire for alcohol or drugs - reduces cardiovascular disease - relieves mild depression and insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome and PMS. Not a bad return for contemplating your navel, wouldn’t you say? Please use the subscription box at top of nav bar (left side of page) to sign up for my free monthly Relief Beyond Belief E-zine, filled with lots of great tips and techniques for living your best life! Don't worry -- your e-mail address is totally secure. I promise to use it only to send you Relief Beyond Belief E-zine. Here's another great meditation resource The Guided Meditation Are you ready to experience total relaxation and inner peace? Come and listen to meditation music, and experience the bliss of guided meditations. I've come across a fabulous meditation link I just had to share, http://www.meditation-methods.com/index.html, check it out by clicking this link ( a new window will open). Return from Finding Inner Peace Through Meditation to Home Page Go to Meditation Relaxation Techniques Return from Meditation to Belly Dance
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