Meditation is a powerful tool that everyone can use for healing, stress reduction and enhancing the quality of their lives. Different meditation techniques can produce different results,so learning the purpose and benefit of each technique is critical.
The mastery in meditation is to know which technique to use when and how to combine the various techniques as needed to achieve the desired outcomes.
What is meditation? Meditation is focused attention and intention using specific techniques to acheive various benefits.
Meditation has been proven to lower blood pressure, achieve an alpha brainwave state for relaxation and is recommended by the Mayo Clinic to enhance the healing process.
By learning these 7 techniques, you can develop a successful meditation practice to enhance your life, health & well-being.
The techniques are:
- Centering - using the conscious aspect of mind to achieve a state of non-thought and peace to reduce stress and gain mental clarity for studying, decision making or to give your busy mind a break.
- Buddhic Gaze - stimulates the subconscious for random observation of what's really on your mind or blocks to acheiving your goals.
- Reflective Meditation - intentional stimulation of the subconscious to learn more about self, review past events and grief recovery.
- Creative Visualization - consciously stimulate the superconcious for relaxation, creating sacred space, purification, receiving guidance and knowledge.
- Chakra Meditation - Aligning and balancing the body's energy system by focusing and stimulating energy centers for healing and increased energy.
- Mantra Meditation - (aka TM-Transcendental Meditation) - Stimulating the superconcious with the use of sound repitition for healing, focus and spiritual growth.
- Contemplative Meditation - Stimulation of super conscious to for increased spiritual understanding through contemplation and dialoguing with Spirit.
Overall benefits of having a meditation practice:
- Enhanced sense of peace and satisfaction
- Improved health, focus, decision making ability
- Increased creativity, joy, and lightness of being
- Relieves insomnia, anxiety, chronic pain.
- Induces mystical experiences, intuitive ideas, purification of the soul, spiritual evolution
The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine (aka Mind Body Medical Institute) at Harvard Medical School have documented & published many health benefits. Also the Institute of Noetic Sciences have done many studies on Meditation.
I have a daily meditation practice myself where I practice many of these techniques daily. My class series is called Learn to Meditate (part of my Grow Your Soul series of classes) is offered as a 7 week class series or a one day intensive. Class cost is $120 for the series and icludes the book.
