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“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of the spirit.”

-Jeremy Taylor

Do you meditate? Have you ever tried to meditate? Would you even begin to know how to and if so, have you been successful? Ah, the ancient practice of focusing your awareness. The road to enlightenment! The Buddhist say, “The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.”

So then, why is it that meditation eludes so many of us? Why isn’t it something we start to practice at a young age so we can all experience inner peace, tap into our true spiritual nature and open the doors to the mysteries of our mind?

Perhaps one of the reasons is it isn’t easy. They say we think some 60,000 thoughts a day and most of them go unnoticed by us. Well, try meditating for only one or two minutes and you will witness the first 100 or 200 thoughts of your day. It seems like, instead of quieting your mind, suddenly all you can think about is EVERYTHING.

Try and sit for 1 minute and clear your mind. Try and release your thoughts so you can go within, follow your breathing and simply be. WOW! Climbing Mt. Everest seems like a breeze compared to trying to quiet your mind. Go ahead, try it and you’ll see exactly what I am talking about.

Meditating is basically learning to have a relationship with your true self, your spiritual self and God/Your Higher Power/Allah. Prayer is a form of meditation but learning to quiet your mind and going within is where you meet your spirit, where you begin to know who you are. Some call it nirvana or enlightenment and this experience transcends all religions.

Look I know we are never going to become Buddhist monks but taking a couple of minutes out of your day to tap into a least a glimpse of peace is worth your time.

Not to mention that it begins your day with a more calm approach to what may lie ahead and the fact is that we should all start each day in some form of prayer, mediation and thankfulness.

Many people are in such a hurry. They hustle and bustle around each day that they never take the time to go within even for just 1 tiny minute. Some people just can’t stop. They don’t know how to relax and they couldn’t tell you what taking time for themselves is. This is the exact time that they should stop and take a breather.

So why not give it a try and at least attempt to meditate; it will take you one step closer to reaching that spiritual place inside you. It’s a wonderful place that already exists within you which you have never had a relationship with or experienced yet. Plus, it reduces stress, it keeps you centered and it nourishes your soul.

What do you have to lose and what do you have to gain?

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Stress is probably one of the biggest problems working individuals face today. Most people are always on the go and always under a lot of pressure. While technology has made most jobs easier, it has allowed employers to expect more and more productivity from their employees. And with these, people have less and less time to unwind and relax.

While a lot of us can get away with unwinding and going on vacation every few months, a lot of people need to relax a little bit almost everyday to be able to properly function the next day. And people have searched for alternate ways to unwind on a daily basis. A lot of people can settle for a couple of drinks at the bar down the block. Some can relax by spending an hour to a couple of hours at the gym working out. While a lot of people need to settle with prime time TV while eating dinner.

Stress has become such an issue that there are even treatments for it. Even multivitamins have been labeled as anti stress tablets and capsules. But any effective stress relief options will usually require time and energy. And sometimes, you start asking if you really get relaxed with what you do or do you spend time stressing yourself out more.

Now one sure way of getting relaxed is by meditation. Meditation is the process of training ones mind to self induce a mode of consciousness that can be beneficial to the person involved. This usually means finding a quiet place where the person can relax and focus his or her mind into one thing. You can also totally empty your mind and allow it to wander and totally relax the rest of your body.

While most spas will provide you relaxing options like Jacuzzis and body massages and saunas, it is also one of the best places to learn meditation. Most spas will have meditation classes that you can enroll in and learn meditation from an expert. Spa massage rooms are also great places to practice meditation because of its ambience, ambient lighting and relaxing piped in music.

Meditation may not be for everyone but it can be very beneficial for people who really like to either get their minds off things or get their minds to focus on one thing. This can help you come up with solutions for problems or be the first step in finding a suitable solution to any problematic situation.

Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D. has been studying and practicing meditation for over 30 years. He has a free weekly podcast where you can learn everything you need to know about meditation, whether you are looking to start your own personal meditation practice, have been meditating a long time, or are simply exploring the topic. To learn more, go to http://www.MeditationForHealthPodcast.com.

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Learning the Benefits of Meditation For Pregnancy and Childbirth

Meditation is great for overall well being but can also be specifically targeted to help with individual life circumstances. I will explain how meditation can help you get through childbirth and your first few months as a mom.

Using meditation during pregnancy can be an important part of your daily regimen because it helps to reduce the stress you go through. When you are pregnant, any stress that you are already dealing with seems to become magnified. Here is a meditation that can help you with this:

1. Sit down in a chair and put your feet up on an ottoman or a stack of pillows. Just about anything will work to put your feet on just be sure that you are very comfortable. Put your hands on your stomach, take deep breaths and relax. Each time you inhale imagine love flowing into your lungs, blood and baby. Each time you exhale imagine your baby’s love flowing back out to you.

2. Rub your hands over your stomach and each time you exhale, go mmm, be sure that it is both soft and has a vibration to it. The sound should vibrate throughout your body and be a sound of love that your baby can feel. obviously, your baby cannot understand language but it will be able to feel this expression of your love. Continue with this, inhaling love to your baby and exhaling your baby’s love into the air that surrounds you.

3. Perform this meditation daily.

Childbirth is a great time to introduce meditation because it will help you deal with the pain of labor. The single most important thing you must do while in labor is retain mindfulness. You have to remain totally aware through the entire experience so you can remember every single detail. That way you can tell your child all about it, someday! Make sure that you stay aware of every feeling, no matter how painful it is.

This will help to alleviate the pain whether or not you choose to use painkillers. Be sure that you are taking deep breaths and staying as relaxed as possible.

When you see the baby for the first time make sure that you are 100% awake and aware of every detail. If you are emotional there is a much bigger chance that you will remember everything and it will be a wonderful story to tell your kid all about!

Some studies show that stress will make a pregnancy more difficult, but the single biggest factor is attitude. Women who had to work during the latter part of their pregnancy are at a higher risk of having babies early and with low birth weight. This is likely due to the fact that they were dealing with the extra stress at work when they would rather be at home.

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The Benefits Of Meditation

The benefits of meditation are numerous and real. Through meditation courses you can learn to improve your life and your health.

The Meditation Courses offered by Sue will teach you many techniques to be able to listen to your body. You will learn to breathe, focus, relax and quieten your mind and find the answers that you are looking for.

Meditation is a way of communicating with your body, and the more you listen the more your body will talk to you. Once you learn the different things that your body is trying to tell you, you will be surprised at how the symptoms make more sense. For instance if you are feeling invisible in the world you may start to gain weight, this is your bodies reaction to your feelings of being small and insignificant. By receiving the messages your body is trying to send you; this can be reversed and you can reach your own highest potential in life. With Sues believe that meditation is a way is the connection with many parts of ones self you will be guided on a journey into your own body.

At Body Brilliance you will be taught through the Meditation Courses to create distance between your thoughts and yourself. This will enable you to connect your soul and your body. You will be able to tap into the passion of your soul, where all your deepest desires reside. By using the Body Brilliance method of Meditation you will be able to be able to connect with the still calm of your body, and this voice will echo making it easier to understand. With the amount of times we get to make choices in our life but often we are not aware enough of whom we truly are to make a choice the right choice. Through meditation the right choice becomes more apparent. It is like tuning a radio onto the right station according to Sue. To find out more about the benefits of meditation and to make a booking at the Sandton centre visit www.bodybriliiance.co.za

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The Benefits of Meditation

Are you one of those who roll out of bed in the morning scrambling for your coffee or dashing out the door to head to the office, hoping your socks match? Do you think that there’s simply no time in your crammed day to take a few moments to meditate? Or do you think that meditation is only for the yogi who sits all day on a mountaintop contemplating his navel?

What would you say if I told you that taking a few moments every day to tune into yourself would benefit you in numerous ways?

Whether you take a few moments to pray or simply sit still, it’s been shown that meditation yields rewards physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Here are a few of those rewards:

Meditation…

…relieves stress, which leads to a deeper level of relaxation.

…reduces anxiety attacks.

…decreases muscle pain and headaches.

…lowers heart rate and blood pressure.

…decreases respiratory rate.

…helps balance brain chemistry, which aids in stabilizing mood.

…helps with depression.

…enhances the immune system. (Research has shown that meditation increases activity of ‘natural-killer cells’, which kill bacteria, funguses, parasites and cancer cells.)

…helps in dealing with personal issues.

…creates new neuronal tracks in both the prefrontal cortex as well as the mid-insular regions of the brain, which helps us change and learn.

…helps align us with higher/deeper realms.

…aids in our connection with God, Spirit, Absolute or the Universe.

Isn’t that enough to take a few moments to meditate?

In the beginning, it will take effort to remember to tune into yourself. Here’s an exercise that will hopefully help:

During the day, take a moment to pay attention to what you are thinking and notice the emotion that is attached. This will help you build consciousness and better know yourself.

Also, even in busy situations, you can become still. Here’s how: focus on breathing deeply and slowly for a minute at your desk, while standing in lines or in the shower. You will soon discover that stillness can be woven into many of your everyday tasks.

After all, isn’t good health and happiness something worth striving for?

Have you found a way where stillness was woven into one of your everyday tasks?

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Meditation – Basic Practice

There is a joke in Buddhist circles: “Don’t just dosomething, sit there.”

What is Meditation?

Meditation is how we train in continuous awareness. It is also how we train in letting go. Meditating might not appear to be very exciting or productive, but try it and give inner peace a chance.

Meditation is a truly transformative spiritual exercise. Beginning meditators do not always connect the simplicity of what they are doing to the essence of the spiritual search, but it is all there to be discovered by those who try it. The Dzogchen teachings of Tibet say one moment of total awareness is one moment of perfect freedom and enlightenment. You do not need to seek elsewhere; it is all within.

The Practice:

Begin your meditation practice in a place that is quiet and free of distraction. Sit comfortably with your back erect. Stay alert and yet relaxed and at ease. This begins the training in mindfulness, or in cultivating heightened consciousness and awareness.

Begin breathing in and out through you nostrils.

Mindfully breath in, mindfully breath out.

Let go of the natural flow of energy and breathing, and learn to simply let it be.

Pay close attention to each and every inhalation and exhalation, following the breath – the object of your attention, all the way in and all the way out.

What is the Purpose of Practicing Meditation?

Breath awareness practice may not seem immediately productive, but give it a chance. Some spiritual masters make it their primary practice throughout their entire lives. Mindfulness of breathing is the basic mediation practice, and yet it has the power to reach and enhance all levels of consciousness.

It may appear simple, but even so it works on all levels of the path and it is certainly not just for beginners.

It may not be immediately apparent, but to be totally in the moment, which is what meditation requires, means relinquishing the past, the future, and the dualism that makes a distinction between self and others. This is the essence of letting go.

(Inspired by Lama Surya Das: Letting go of the person you used to be)

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Meditation – The Health Benefits

The Health Benefits of Meditation

The health applications and clinical studies of meditation are products of the field of interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation.

Meditation concepts have been applied to clinical settings in order to measure effects on somatic motor function as well as cardiovascular and respiratory function. Also the hermeneutic and phenomenological aspects of meditation are areas of growing interest. Meditation has entered the mainstream of health care as a method of stress and pain reduction. For example, in an early study in 1972, Meditation was shown to affect the human metabolism by lowering the biochemical byproducts of stress, such as lactate, decreasing heart rate and blood pressure and inducing favorable brain waves. In 1976, the Australian psychiatrist Ainslie Meares reported the regression of cancer following intensive meditation (published in the Medical Journal of Australia). Meares would go on to write a number of books, including his best-seller Relief Without Drugs.

As a method of stress reduction, meditation has been used in hospitals in cases of chronic or terminal illness to reduce complications associated with increased stress that include depressed immune systems. There is growing agreement in the medical community that mental factors such as stress significantly contribute to a lack of physical health, and there is a growing movement in mainstream science to fund research in this area. Dr. James Austin, a neurophysiologist at the University of Colorado, reported that meditation in Zen rewires the circuitry of the brain in his book Zen and the Brain (Austin, 1999). This has been confirmed using functional MRI imaging, a brain scanning technique that measures blood flow in the brain.

Dr. Herbert Benson of the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated with Harvard and several Boston hospitals, reports that meditation induces a host of biochemical and physical changes in the body collectively referred to as the “relaxation response.” The relaxation response includes changes in metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and brain chemistry. Benson and his team have also done clinical studies at Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan Mountains.

Other studies within this field include the research of Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts who have studied the effects of mindfulness meditation on stress.

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?Meditation Music To Enhance Meditation

Today, most people are surrounded with demanding work and family responsibilities in everyday life. Folks in the city may be more prone to the stressful life within the buzz of the fast-paced city environment. Stress, anxiety, frustrations are common for people to experience everyday. Beside the exercise and healthy lifestyle for physical well-being, some people are enjoying the benefits of meditation and meditation music to ease negative thoughts and feelings in the brain.

Meditation is practiced by a person who want to achieve a level of deep concentration for a relaxed state of mind. This aims to eliminate the negative feelings, perceptions and vibes brought about by many factors in life. People may be feeling stressed from family and work responsibilities or taken over by depression. Money is also a big factor in the well-being of a person. Lack of money can result in intense stress and unhappiness of a person. Other factors include failed relationships, problems with relationships, work issues, physical and mental health and many others. The point is that life is full of problems. The challenge here is how to keep things in balance, work around the problems and improve outlook in life.

Many are getting concerned with the way their lives are going. They try to find ways or alternatives that will prove effective in helping them handle challenges. People can strengthen their physical and mental health in order to be strong enough to handle problems. Exercise and a balanced diet can improve physical fitness. On the other hand, one can try meditation to improve state of mind. Researches have shown that meditation can greatly improve the way of thinking of people. Some practice meditation regularly in few minutes or up to an hour. The people who have tried meditation say that it created optimism that was lacking in their lives before.

To enhance meditation process, meditation music provides better effect. To avoid distractions and background noises, meditation music can be played during meditation. It also helps you achieve a better level of relaxation and concentration. Whether you are seeking to remove negativity or to have time to relax, you can use meditation to provide peace of mind and positive outlook to strengthen your spirit.

Exercise and a healthy lifestyle may work to ease these negative feelings but a number of people are beginning to enjoy the benefits of meditation and meditation music.

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Meditation And Meditation Benefits

Broadly speaking meditation can be defined as a self induced change of state of mind for the purpose of heightening certain awareness or attention, or for emotional well being.

However, the narrower definitions vary according to the beliefs surrounding them.  As beliefs differ among different people, so the understanding and practice of meditation differ just as greatly.

Some of the more commonly known types of meditation tend to be the legacies of the Eastern religions, but there are aspects of it in many of the Western beliefs as well.

From prehistoric times, ritualistic repetitive movements and chants were discovered to induce a state of conscientiousness which was believed to appease the supernatural that they worshipped.  It usually went alongside offerings and sacrifices to the gods.

When it became apparent that these spiritual rituals seemed beneficial to the people who performed them, they began to change and develop them in order to realise the self, but generally still for religious purposes.

The Oriental religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism refined meditation as a means for achieving a higher state of spiritual growth and goodness.  The word for ‘meditate’ is ‘dhyana’ in Hinduism and Buddhism and is derived from the Sanskrit root word ‘dhyai’.

The Western religions were divided in their approach to meditation.  Those that included repetitive words or actions formed one school of thought, while those that didn’t formed another.

The English meditation comes from the Latin ‘meditari’ which means ‘to think, contemplate, devise, ponder, meditate’.

The original Western Christian meditation was merely an aspect of worship that included reading, pondering, prayer and contemplation.  Although a deep calm and concentration was induced, no repetitions, specific postures or rituals were included.

Later in some branches of Christianity, there was a movement away from the more pragmatic type of Christianity towards an attempt at a mystic communion with God. This led to rituals, chanting, repetitive prayers and a euphoric state.

A modern and far more emotional approach in some churches has brought about deeply rhythmic music, clapping and swaying.  Supremely hypnotic states, such as ‘talking in tongues’ have emerged from the emotional states induced.

The Jewish and Islamic religions tended more towards the original Western style of prayer and meditation, but here also there were some groups such as the Jewish Kabbalah and Islamic Sufism that branched off towards the more Oriental form of mind control and meditation.

Today meditation is a world wide phenomenon and found in many forms.  It is practised less for religious purposes and more for the practical applications that it offers.

Most of us live in stressful environments.  In olden times stress came and went in small spurts throughout life.  Today it is just a steady day to day stream of stress pouring on most of us without let up.

This can be a disaster for our blood pressure, cardio-vascular systems, and just about everything else concerning our physical and mental health!   Wherever you find great stress pressures, there you find a desperate need for an island of peace and calm.

People are turning more and more towards meditation for a way to find that oasis in life.  There is ample medical evidence that prayer and meditation benefits have healing and soothing properties.

The tranquility and peace that you find in nature have much the same effect, but it is just not often available to people living in crowded cities, as most of us do.  The alternative as a newbie to meditation is to find out how to meditate for beginners, especially loving kindness meditation.  The world will be a better place for us and for everyone who knows us.

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