Meditation - Tools to Improve Your Life
What Is Meditation?
Despite a dictionary describing “meditation” as: musing, pondering, thought, consideration, rumination, deliberation…If you were to ask everyone you encounter today what meditation means, each person would have a different interpretation. Religious denominations and sects have varying connotations about “meditation”, each having influence on their followers’ nomenclature. Many people will tell you meditation is prayer or a form of prayer, and they may have in mind a specific discourse or litany they read or recite, alone or with others. It works for them.
The more you practice, the better the results.
Whatever your persuasion, for the sake of gaining a common understanding in the context of this experience, let’s adopt the description that follows:
Meditation is a “state of being” in which the mind is cleared of the mundane while the physical body is disciplined to a deeply relaxed condition.
When you enter a meditative state you intentionally alter your consciousness level to achieve greater awareness of your inner and outer worlds. A higher level of consciousness allows you to experience a different dimension than you experience in a normal waking state, in the same respect as you enter a different dimension in a dream state. There are other dimensions or levels of consciousness in addition to the waking and dream states, each determined by brainwave activity. See this article for more information.
Benefits of Meditating
"After trying each of the meditations once, I gave a CD to every member of my sales staff to help them through a tough time in my industry. Some learned to relax and work at a more creative level. Others have started to open up and think outside the box. I think these exercises teach users to convert negative energy into positive energy."
Mike in Denver
In classes, I ask participants if they have ever meditated and most say they have but qualify their experience as prayer or a specific litany they read in connection with religious, spiritual or organized treatment and prevention programs. I am not in disagreement that they have meditated if they have pondered the meaning and consequences of the phrases they recite. But this is not the same form of meditation as the experience we are exploring together.
The mediation experience I want to share with you is a deliberate, deeper state of mind - a place or dimension that renders spiritual, psychological and physiological benefits to the practitioner. This state engenders a sense of well being, peace and harmony from within. Meditation improves your physical, emotional and mental health every time you practice. The more you practice, the better the results. Benefits are frequently immediate:
Visualizing a beautiful place assists in quieting the mind
- Stress management
- Pain management
- Management of chronic illness
- Regulate blood pressure
- Control heart beat
- Control breathing
- Skin receives more blood
- Improves circulatory system
- Improves stomach and bowel function
- Endocrine function is heightened
- Stamina increases
- Improved learning ability
- Improved memory recall and retention
- Heightened energy level and vitality
- Increased happiness
- Increased emotional stability
- A release of baggage
- A sense of inner peace and harmony
- Direction and confidence about life and relationships
- A respite from your hectic outer world - a mini-vacation.
- Relief from depression and panic attacks, decrease in anxiety
- Relieve insomnia - ability to sleep increases and the time needed to fall asleep decreases
- Clarity about decisions and issues that have been weighing you down
The Role of Creative Visualization in Meditation
“A blessing that enabled me to enlarge my perception of life, the world, the Universe and how I fit into it. I learned how to clear my aura of blockages, to use my mind and take it to places it hadn’t been before.”
CB, North Jersey Shore
Creative visualization is a step beyond the practice of meditation. A person does not need to venture beyond daily basic meditation to experience changes in mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well being. Meditation in its purest form is enough.
But why not explore “creative visualization” and discover how this technique can enhance the meditation experience to shape the kind and quality of life you want?
How and Where to Begin
Meditation Trilogy consists of three, professionally produced guided meditations available on CD or as a set of downloadable mp3 files. These will guide you through the meditation experience and thoroughly acquaint you with the use of creative visualization. Sample the material. Then purchase the guided meditation CD or mp3 downloads for your use at home.