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6 Ways To Enhance Your Meditation Experience

Meditation With Candles

Meditation can be as simple as closing your eyes and focusing on your breathing. You can also maximize the power of your meditation by adding harmonizing elements. The best way to know what fits you best is to try different elements or combinations of elements such as guided meditation audios, aromatherapy, music, light, massage and so on. Life is ever changing, so you can also follow your intuition and see how you feel on any given day and what you feel called by at each session.

Essential Oils: during the meditation you will be focusing on your breathing. What can be better than inhaling beautiful scents? I personally enjoy Lavender because of its versatility and relaxation properties. You can also use Patchouli to feel more grounded, Cedarwood to release stress, or Vetiver for inner power.

You can use these oils as an inhalant with a diffuser or on the skin with a carrier, such as olive, almond and grapeseed oil.

Incense: very powerful for creating a positive state of mind conducive to relaxation. It also purifies the air.

Candle: some people enjoy meditating by focusing on the flame of a candle. Yes, light itself. It will help you on your concentration skills.

Music: if you feel a great connection with music and have the ability to feel absorbed and moved by it, it can be a great asset for your meditation. It will help you eliminating any distractions and creating the right mood to immerse yourself in your inner world.

Guided Meditation Audio: this will bring the power of meditation to you, no need to research, find a group to meditate with, just make your meditation journey smooth and easy. The audio will help you tremendously in focusing during your meditation. You can also use headphones to disconnect from the outside even more.

Massage + Guided Meditation with Music + Essential Oil: more than a meditation, this is really a treat. A treat to yourself. You deserve it! The first time I tried it, I not only felt that I was in heaven, but the massage therapist also had a great experience with it. Both the therapist and the client will benefit through a greater sense of flow and connection.

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How To Start Meditating

Very long ago when I first heard the word meditation, I asked myself, “What is that?”. At the time, I felt that anything requiring a person to loose focus from the outer world, wouldn’t be very good.

The idea of meditation reminded me of hypnosis, not the therapeutic kind, but rather the live shows I sometimes saw on television where the hypnotist would make volunteers from the audience act in funny ways for the entertainment of others.

I had even heard of people talking about meditation as a form of discipline and a sacrificial path towards illumination like standing on a bed of nails, or sitting cross-legged for days without speaking or eating. This idea didn’t make it appealing for me neither. Well, you can certainly take meditation or any other subject to the extreme, but the truth is, meditation can be as simple yet powerful, as disconnecting from the outer world for just a few minutes and, as a result, gain greater balance, health and happiness in your life.

What I’ve personally noticed when practicing meditation techniques:

When faced with a challenging situation it might take me days to figure out a satisfactory solution.

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My mind might be chattering and not figuring out a way to reach the result that I want to accomplish. When I decide to take a few minutes to disconnect and meditate (and it might be just 10 minutes after days of dealing with the dilemma), a flow of insight and possibilities suddenly appear in my mind that seemed to be unavailable before. Fascinating!
By practicing meditation, you will also become more accustomed at staying focused and centered in your active life at anytime. It becomes something natural. You keep that state with you longer and longer.

I personally enjoy playing an audio with nice music and guided meditation techniques, although some people like a more stoic style — pure silence. I prefer to be taking by the sound of a soft and relaxing music with the profound intentions of the words. This way things seems easier, I readily connect with my inner peace and wisdom, almost automatically! It is like creating a brain pattern and every time I hear the audio, it results in relaxation, no effort from my part.

I remember how in the beginning my friends would tell me “focus on your breathing and then in your heartbeat” and I couldn’t even notice my heartbeat, how would I focus on it? Well, I realized that focusing on the breathing was more than enough to get started; just the intention of perceiving my heartbeat awakened me to this awareness. You can do the same.

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- Bring Happiness, Bliss and Wellbeing to your life

For optimal results, practice daily for 30 days.

Many Blessings, Victoria Vives Khuong

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A Scientific Approach To Meditation

scientific meditation There are over a thousand publications on meditation, however, many of these are very poor when it comes to a theoretically unified point of view.

Now a days, with the cutting edge technologies available, it is possible for scientists to see the brain processes of individuals during meditation. There are still a lot of questions and unknowns, for example, neuroscientists talk about rewiring the brain for greater health and well-being.

Because of the intensity and regularity at which some people meditate, such as Buddhist monks, they are capable of living from a place of focus and relaxation, even within their regular everyday state. They have tuned themselves into this frequency of well being and therefore the state is more readily available for them.

From a scientific perspective, meditation is considered a form of relaxation, an altered state of consciousness, focus, a cease in the habitual flow of thoughts and the maintenance of a self-observing attitude. These are the behavioral aspects of meditation. There are also physical and biochemical effects, such as changes in the brain chemistry heart rate, blood pressure, and even metabolism. Other clinical studies regarding meditation have shown its power on releasing pain and stress.

Recent studies showed substantial increased attention spans.

As seen in BBC News, Andrew Newberg, a radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, US, used a brain imaging technique to study a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks. He and his team compared the difference in brain activity between the waking state and the meditative state.

The scans provided proof of increased activity in the front part of the brain and decreased activity in the back part of the brain. This would mean changing focus from orientation to attention.

Dr Newberg explained: “During meditation, people have a loss of the sense of self and frequently experience a sense of no space and time and that was exactly what we saw.”

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A research was done by Yale and Harvard, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, which shown how meditation is also associated with increased cortical thickness. The improved areas of the brain were related with sensory, cognitive and emotional processing.

Magnetic resonance imaging showed that regular practice of meditation is associated with increased thickness in a subset of cortical regions related to sensory, auditory, visual and internal perception, such as heart rate or breathing. The researchers also found that regular meditation practice may slow age-related thinning of the frontal cortex.

“Most of the regions identified in this study were found in the right hemisphere,” the researchers said. “The right hemisphere is essential for sustaining attention, which is a central practice of Insight meditation.”

There is, in fact, scientific proof regarding the benefit of meditation, although just the experience of meditating itself, is what will reveal its wonders to us.

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Foundation Meditation by Catherine Morris, leads you into a deep relaxation which reduces stress and allows your own Inner Physician to do the work needed to create your health and well being. You will also find that the techniques you learn in this Meditation will be very useful in your daily life. You will be able to function more efficiently, with greater creativity and ease.

For best results, I recommend that you sit with your back straight and supported. Create a space that is quiet and a time when you will not be interrupted. If you prefer to sit on the floor, on a cushion, or on your bed with your legs out straight or crossed, you may. You may also listen to the Meditation lying down, but you may fall asleep. You will still receive a healing if you are asleep, however, to learn the skills of centering and grounding… Read more>>

Health And Meditation

The use of meditation has significantly grown in the United States. It is greatly used for health betterment, such as in case of anxiety disorders, pain, depression, stress, insomnia and symptoms associated with chronic illnesses (such as heart disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS).

Meditation is a great choice for several reasons:

- It has no negative side effects

- It is extremely affordable – FREE (just compare with drugs or other treatments)

- It is very easy and anyone can practice it

ANXIETY:

Studies showed that meditation improved anxiety in the following ways:

It improved scores on measures of current mood, anxiety and symptoms of distress
It improved work, social, and family relationships
Improved obsessive-compulsive disorders, perceived stress and purpose in life

PAIN

Studies showed that meditation improved pain in the following ways and cases:

Reduced the emotional impact of pain
Regulated attention and anticipation of pain, making chronic pain less probable
Alleviated pain caused by arthritis

DEPRESSION

Studies showed that meditation improved depression in the following ways:

Average reduction in depressive symptoms of 48 percent
Reduced depression in the elderly at risk for heart disease not involving extra medication
Helped manage the thoughts that could lead to a relapse of the depression
Helped living more in the present time which frees us of negative mind states

STRESS

Studies showed that meditation improved stress in the following ways:

Controlled the fight-or-flight response
Slowed heartrate and breathing
Relaxed the body and reduced oxygen consumption
Diverted the mind from the problems that were causing stress
Cleared away stress hormones that might have built up

INSOMNIA

Studies showed that meditation improved insomnia in the following ways:

Decreased sleep latency
Increased total sleep time
Decreased total wake time
Decreased waking after sleep onset
Increased sleep efficiency and sleep quality

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Para obtener los mejores resultados, recomiendo que te sientes en una silla con la espalda recta y apoyada y con los pies en el suelo.

Crea un espacio que sea tranquilo y un momento en el que no se te interrumpa. Si prefieres sentarte en el suelo, o en un cojín, o en tu cama con las piernas estiradas o cruzadas, también puedes.

También puedes escuchar la Meditación tumbado, pero podrías quedarte dormido. Aún recibirías la sanación si estás dormido. Sin embargo, para aprender las habilidades de centrase y conectar con la Tierra… Sigue leyendo>>

When to meditate and how often

One of the greatest times for meditation is before going to bed. This will empty your mind from all the things that happened along the day and will create the perfect silence for you to sleep profoundly, just ten or fifteen minutes before going to sleep will multiply your capacity to rest and regenerate overnight. You will have quality sleep.

How to go about setting a goal for how often to meditate? The answer is: whatever is comfortable for you will work. Two indicators that will show you the optimal range of your meditation time are your enjoyment of it and your progress. This means that it has to be enough so you can see an improvement and not as much that you stop enjoying it.

If you have never meditated before and you have difficulty getting started, try to begin in a moment that you feel called by it. You can create this feeling by finding interesting tools that you would like to try out like a cool audio for mediation or a nice pillow to seat on while meditating. This way, the desire will feel exciting and new! Use this excitement and try it out right away, you will feel more inclined to use it and to enjoy it than if you postpone it. The perfect time is now! You can then create a habit to meditate everyday at the same time that you got started the first time. We normally work better with habits. They become automatic. There is great leverage in habits.

I would also advise for you to be very aware of how you feel before and after the meditation. You can write down a number from 1 to 10, one being “I don’t feel stress” and being ten being “I feel maximum stress”. You will notice that the number always decreases after the meditation as well as over time.