Do you meditate? I love my daily meditation practice and have found that my days go so much smoother when I carve out time in the morning to quiet my mind and connect with Spirit. Here is what I’ve learned over the years about meditation: Meditation is the process and practice of focusing your attention. When you focus your mind, you are able to concentrate better. As you learn to develop your concentration, you can guide your thoughts more effectively. When you have control of your thoughts, you gain power. When you gain power, you start feeling more relaxed, you enjoy life, you can accomplish more, and your health improves.…
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Your Brain on Meditation
Meditation is a daily practice for me because it has so many benefits. But what really fascinates me is what it does to our brains! Research suggests that meditation operates through a combination of several distinct mechanisms: attention regulation, body awareness, emotion regulation, and a change in perspective on the self. Each component is believed to assist in various aspects of our lives, and when functioning together, the cumulative process claims to lend an enhanced capacity for self-regulation – the ability to control our own thought, affect, behavior, or attention. The practice of meditation allows you to develop a stronger command of the mind, which stays with you long after…
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The Power of Meditation
Is your mind and body stressed out from the daily grinds of a busy life? Meditation is an easy way to reduce stress and help you to recharge. The power of meditation has three aspects: relaxation, internalization and expansion. Practiced daily, it produces amazing results on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self. The National Science Foundation estimated that your brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day. Those of you who meditate are familiar with the “monkey mind” phenomenon in which the mind can be an out-of-control thought generator. Meditation is a simple, yet powerful tool to still the constant chattering of the mind so that…
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How to Use Visualization Meditation to Create What You Want
Visualization Meditation is an active meditation technique using visualization to enhance your creative manifestation power. Visualization meditation involves mental imagery and the use of your imagination. It is a powerful technique to create what you want in your life materially, emotionally, mentally, and physically. When you meditate on an image you wish to manifest, and continually focus on the idea or picture regularly with strong positive emotion, you will achieve what you have visualized. There are many different ways that visualization meditation can be used: Creating your desired life Achieving goals you set Modifying unwanted behaviors Enhancing positive feelings and emotions Improving physical performance Healing yourself and others Cynthia Stafford…
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Basic Meditation for Conscious Creators
Meditation is one of twenty-two processes that Abraham (also known as Abraham-Hicks), a non-physical group of spiritual teachers, offers in the book Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks. A quote from the book explains why they teach meditation: “We playfully tell our physical friends that the reason we teach the process of meditation is because it is easier for most of you to clear your minds, having no thought, than it is for you to think pure, positive thoughts. For when you quiet your mind, you offer no thought; and when you do so, you offer no resistance; and when you have activated no resistant thought,…
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12 Meditation Tips for Deliberate Creators
“There is no right or wrong in this process of meditation. There is nothing that you should be reaching for. This is a state of allowing. This is a state where, for just a few moments, you stop running the show. You stop trying to make anything happen. This is your time of allowing. This is your time when you are saying unto your maker, unto your Source Energy, unto your Inner Being, unto your God… whatever you’re wanting to call it, this is your time of saying, ‘Here I be, in a state of allowing.”‘And what am I allowing? I’m allowing Source Energy to flow purely through me.” –…
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The Best Meditation Technique for Deeper Relaxation
Learning to relax and chill out as a way to release resistance and raise your vibration is a key deliberate creator skill. Relaxation techniques are often overlooked when life gets busy and you are feeling overwhelmed. You may feel like you don’t have the time to relax. But as your stress levels increase, your vibration decreases and eventually your health can begin to deteriorate. By learning, applying and finding the time to practice simple relaxation techniques you can raise your vibration and improve your quality of life. While there are a lot of relaxation techniques out there that you can learn and practice, I am going to share one of…
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How to Prepare for Meditation
When I began meditating years ago, I tried sitting on the floor with my legs crossed as I had seen so many others do in pictures and on television. Within a couple minutes, my back began to ache and my knees begged to be straightened. My thoughts were all over the place and I had no idea how to contain them. I quickly became frustrated. It took a series of attempts over time to find out what worked best for me. Now, I practice meditation with enthusiasm and comfort. My beginning experiences taught me that the when, where, and how you meditate have a powerful impact on the quality of…
