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Meditation Therapy Using Meditation as Therapy
Meditation therapy is commonly used to help people coping with stress.
Learning to gain control of your thoughts and emotions, helps you to relax and experience peace, when you need to...
The ability to relax and experience peace is a way to gain respite from distressing thoughts, worries and the information, especially when you have an unusually stressful day.
Meditation therapy helps reduce stress by taking the mind away from focusing on problems and creating negative energy.
Meditation, practiced regularly helps release stress and fatigue while resting the body.
Meditation can actually help your body heal naturally, because it reduces the unhealthy chemicals that stress produces.
Benefits of Meditation
The benefits of meditation therapy have a snowball effect starting, with reducing your stress.
Meditation brings the body and mind to a state of peace and balance, which will in turn reduce stress, allowing the body to heal, and improve and maintain health.
The benefits of meditation on the body and mind are enormous.
People meditate simply to relax their body and mind, improve sleep, and rejuvenate their body so that they will be at their optimum performance for the next busy day.
As an exercise, spend a short moment and experience this brief video, taking note of how you feel before you watch it, and how you feel when you have finished.
Please press the "Play Button" (left) in the player controls instead of the arrow on the screen.
Many therapists are now recommending learning to meditate, as part of therapy.
Meditation therapy techniques are used to quiet the mind. When your conscious mind is calm and peaceful, without worries or distracting thoughts, you become open to insights and clarity.
In short, meditation therapies help elicit a relaxation response.
Types of Meditation
There are many styles of meditation originating from all corners of the world. Each one offers a peaceful state of mind, body relaxation, and clarity.
Some types of meditation therapy require you to focus on a particular image, such as a candle.
Other styles of meditation require no concentration, but a letting go of all thoughts.
Still another type of meditation asks you only to observe your thoughts and become consciously aware of them.
It is very important to find a meditation therapy type that you enjoy doing, one that fits into your daily routine, and one that also relaxes you.
If you find you are becoming more tense trying to focus or concentrate, it's possible that you might need to try another type of meditation.
For instance, try a moving meditation with chi gong or tai chi, instead of a sitting meditation.
It is very important to find a meditation therapy type that you enjoy doing, one that fits into your daily routine, and one that also relaxes you.
If you find you are becoming tenser trying to focus or concentrate, it's possible that you might need to try another type of meditation. For instance, try a moving meditation with chi gong.
Deep Breathing for Relaxation
If you have never done meditation before, using some deep breathing techniques is a good place to start.
Deep breathing allows you to become focused on your breaths, and begin to unwind. You can practice this while watching the peaceful video earlier on this page.
Progressive Muscule Relaxation
Sometimes our muscles stay tense even though we may feel relaxed.
Progressive Muscular Relaxation involves relaxing your muscles one muscle group at a time.
In order to reap the full benefits of this meditation therapy technique, you need only two 15-minute sessions per day for one to two weeks.
Progressive muscle relation will reduce your physiological tension and psychological stress.
Zen Meditation
A seated meditation, Zen meditation uses proper posture with concentration on breathing to achieve relaxation and a more positive outlook.
During Zen meditation, your awareness is directed towards counting or watching your breaths from an energy center below the navel.
You then focus on your thoughts, letting them come and go.
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Did you know that the way you breathe can affect your state of mind -- either calm and relaxed or stressed and excited? By altering the way you breathe, you can create different feelings in your body.
Diaphragmatic Breathing is a deep breathing exercise that gets more oxygen into the body and releases physical tension.
Many people breathe from their chest in short breaths. When stressed or in a panic, breathing becomes shallower and faster.
Diaphragmatic breathing is slow and deep (which is the exact opposite of what happens when you are under stress)and helps you to calm down. Using the diaphragm to breathe, also massages your internal organs.
Just by breathing long, deep breaths, you can create a relaxed state in your body.
Mindfulness Meditation
One of the easiest of all meditations to do is the mindfulness meditation. It only requires you to be fully aware of what you are doing at that very moment.
During this time, you let go of worries and thoughts about the future or the past. You relax. You are being mindful.
Learn to enjoy the small pleasures in life by fully concentrating on the task at hand without getting distracted by random thoughts passing through your mind.
Cleanse Your Aura with Hatsurei Ho
Cleansing the Aura is an amazing technique that easily brings focus on your breath, and allows you to relax your breathing.
Born from Tendai Buddhist and Chi Gong theories, it is widely used by martial artists to relax their bodies and calm their minds, and as a stress reliever.
This aspect of meditation therapy considers the 'Oneness' of all things, that we are all one and come from, and return to the same place.
Using hatsurei ho, you can create peace of mind and a sense of well-being, while allowing your body to heal naturally.
Chakra Meditation
Meditating with the Chakras is based on clearing the centers of energy, which connect mind and body. Originating in India, the chakra is a Sanskrit term meaning wheel or circle.
Some people believe that, in order to maintain a healthy body, the chakras need to be cleansed and balanced.
To do this, you need to visualize the color of your chakras one by one, and imagine them cleansed and healthy.
A chakra meditation can relieve stress, relax your mind and body, and we invite you to sample a Chakra meditation by trying the link above.
As you can see there are many types of meditation. Each meditation type is somewhat different from the others.
If you would like to learn to meditate, you will need to decide which kind of meditation appeals to you.
