Meditation is a group of mental training techniques .You can use
meditation to improve mental health and capacities, and also to
help improve the physical health. Some of these techniques are
very simple, so you can learn them from a book or an article;
others require guidance by a qualified meditation teacher.
WHAT IS MEDITATION
Most techniques called meditation include these components:
1. You sit or lie in a relaxed position.
2. You breathe regularly. You breathe in deep enough to get
enough oxygen. When you breathe out, you relax your muscles so
that your lungs are well emptied, but without straining.
3. You stop thinking about everyday problems and matters.
4. You concentrate your thoughts upon some sound, some word you
repeat, some image, some abstract concept or some feeling. Your
whole attention should be pointed at the object you have chosen
to concentrate upon.
5. If some foreign thoughts creep in, you just stop this foreign
thought, and go back to the object of meditation.
The different meditation techniques differ according to the
degree of concentration, and how foreign thoughts are handled.
By some techniques, the objective is to concentrate so intensely
that no foreign thoughts occur at all.
In other techniques, the concentration is more relaxed so that
foreign thoughts easily pop up. When these foreign thoughts are
discovered, one stops these and goes back to the pure meditation
in a relaxed manner. Thoughts coming up, will often be about
things you have forgotten or suppressed, and allow you to
rediscover hidden memory material. This rediscovery will have a
psychotherapeutic effect.
THE EFFECTS OF MEDITATION
Meditation has the following effects:
1. Meditation will give you rest and recreation.
2. You learn to relax.
3. You learn to concentrate better on problem solving.
4. Meditation often has a good effect upon the blood pressure.
5. Meditation has beneficial effects upon inner body processes,
like circulation, respiration and digestion.
6. Regular meditation will have a psychotherapeutically effect.
7. Regular meditation will facilitate the immune system. 8.
Meditation is usually pleacent.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYPNOSIS AND MEDITATION
Hypnosis may have some of the same relaxing and
psychotherapeutic effects as meditation. However, when you
meditate you are in control yourself; by hypnosis you let some
other person or some mechanical device control you. Also
hypnosis will not have a training effect upon the ability to
concentrate.
A SIMPLE FORM OF MEDITATION
Here is a simple form of meditation:
1. Sit in a good chair in a comfortable position.
2. Relax all your muscles as well as you can.
3. Stop thinking about anything, or at least try not to think
about anything.
4. Breath out, relaxing all the muscles in your breathing
apparatus.
5. Repeat the following in 10 - 20 minutes:
-- Breath in so deep that you feel you get enough oxygen.
-- Breath out, relaxing your chest and diaphragm completely.
-- Every time you breathe out, think the word "one" or another
simple word inside yourself. You should think the word in a
prolonged manner, and so that you hear it inside you, but you
should try to avoid using your mouth or voice.
6. If foreign thoughts come in, just stop these thoughts in a
relaxed manner, and keep on concentrating upon the breathing and
the word you repeat.
As you proceed through this meditation, you should feel steadily
more relaxed in your mind and body, feel that you breathe
steadily more effectively, and that the blood circulation
throughout your body gets more efficient. You may also feel an
increasing mental pleasure throughout the meditation.
THE EFFECTS OF MEDITATION UPON DISEASES
As any kind of training, meditation may be exaggerated so that
you get tired and worn out. Therefore you should not meditate so
long or so concentrated that you feel tired or mentally emptied.
Meditation may sometimes give problems for people suffering from
mental diseases, epilepsy, serious heart problems or
neurological diseases. On the other hand, meditation may be of
help in the treatment of these and other conditions.
People suffering from such conditions should check out what
effects the different kinds of meditation have on their own kind
of health problems, before beginning to practise meditation, and
be cautious if they choose to begin to meditate. It may be wise
to learn meditation from an experienced teacher, psychologist or
health worker that use meditation as a treatment module for the
actual disease.
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Knut Holt is an internet consultant and marketer focusing on
health items. Please go here to find anti-aging supplements,
medicines against acne, eczema, scars, wrinkles, other skin
problems and natural medicines against many common diseases.
http://www.abicana.com
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