Meditate for Relief!
Although meditation has been used for around 3500 years, meditation is making a name for itself much louder recently as a practical and simple tool for helping to cope with life and aiding personal growth.
It has become common to use meditation techniques for stress and anxiety relief, easing panic attacks, anxiety reducing physical discomfort, making better life decisions and coping with difficult situations and generally calming the mind, mood and control anger and many other areas of life.
We all have different reasons to meditate, No matter what your reason may be meditation can provide immediate and long lasting relief.
1. Calming a chaotic mind
Chaos is like a child demanding attention. She will do everything to keep your stress level high. With meditation, you can use the quiet calm of your mind to surround you and to slow your stress levels, you can use meditation to let the chaos go easily somewhere else.
Chaos often causes physical stress, a common side effect of anxiety. As you meditate, breathe in to invite space into your body, then breathe out to release tension.
There are times you need to give yourself permission to simply stop, relax and breathe calmly. You can use meditation techniques to adopt this acceptance.
You can use this meditation time to give yourself time to visualise the conflict and to have a much wider perspective.
2. Managing anger
Anger is a difficult form of anxiety. Anger can consume you with stress and anguish. Because meditation stems from quiet and calm, it allows you to take yourself away from angers usual stressful ground where you can examine the emotion honestly and safely apart from the rest of the world.
When you meditate for anxiety relief, your calm becomes stronger than your anger.
During your meditation, try not to think too logically about the reasons you feel angry. You can work that out later. For now, just breathe and focus on your anger
Your meditation will relieve the anxiety of anger and puts it into perspective, but meditation can’t take away the causes of anger. Once you meditation ends, you may need to take action to resolve the reason.
Think of your meditation as a safe place to allow yourself to be angry, and a safe place where you can step away from the emotion and calm your mind.
3. Meditate away your drama
Many of us have a habit of collecting dramatic feelings and situations, holding onto them to us as if they were much loved possessions. We feel we that previous or current situations entitle us ownership of this drama, we often feel we must hold onto it to keep ourselves emotionally safe.
It takes some courage, but meditation can help us separate ourselves from drama and achieve a natural calm and relief.
Visualization during meditation is a useful tool to recognise your drama, understanding it and letting it go. Choose a physical object to represent your drama. Imagine yourself picking it up, then putting it down.
Before you can let drama go, you need to understand why you feel you need to hold onto it. If you can’t understand that, let it go like an item that you don’t need or want in your life.
Drama tends to be a bad habit, Breaking any habit starts with addressing the start of the habit and allowing yourself to break it. Like giving up smoking.
4. Meditate to improve your health
We are being told more every day about the connection between the mind and body. Meditation harnesses the power of the mind to make healthy changes in the body. One of the many benefits of meditation is relaxation. This can be measured medically with lessening blood pressure, heart rate, and anxiety-related symptoms, such as headaches and muscle tension.
Using meditation and mindfulness to focus on your specific physical ailments. Visualise the parts of your body, imagine muscles relaxing, joints loosening and organs working better.
5. Meditate your way to a simpler pace of life
The less you have in life, the less you have to worry about. However, a living simple life is often easier said than done. Meditation helps to consider the benefits of a simpler life, and therefore makes it possible to not only wish simplicity but make it real.
An immediate result of deciding on simplicity is anxiety relief, because you immediatly have less problems to focus on.
6. Meditate to relax your body
“Scientific studies of Indian yoga masters demonstrate that meditation can, in fact, slow the heart rate, lower the blood pressure, reduce the breathing rate, diminish the body’s oxygen consumption, reduce blood adrenaline levels, and change skin temperature.”
7. Meditate for mindfulness
Mindfulness means to be aware of everything around you – the sights, sounds, smells and feel of where you are and people you’re with. You don’t need to judgme. Just simply allowing yourself to see, hear, smell and feel. Mindfulness and meditation provides calm, perspective, breaking the cycle of worry and anxiety that you could focus on.
8. Meditate for emotion
Stress and anxiety are often made of emotions. We can feel this pain both physically and mentally. Sometimes we don’t feel that pain because it’s become familiar. Other times, we strain as we push stress and anxiety away from us, but the harder try to we push them away or ignore them , the more they grow. Learning to accept these emotions and others, such as depression, by focusing on them and learning how to deal with them you can find a calming sense of understanding them with meditation
If you are overwhelmed with panic, begin your meditation by simply allowing yourself to feel your pain of your emotions without trying to understand their reasons why.
Next, to better understand your emotion, first concentrate during your meditation on the feeling without giving it a name.
When a strong emotion arises, take three breaths into the center of your chest and allow that emotion to blow away like a cloud blows away in a breeze. Use this teqchnique for as long as your feel it is helping you.
9. Meditate for quiet calm
Many of us now have busy lives that mean we have no quiet, families, work technology and life in general is noisy. Allowing yourself some quiet meditation can give you that qiet calm time to simply focus on peace.
During this meditation time switch off the noise of life around you and the technology of mobile phones, TVs, computers, tablets, laptops and just focus on that quiet time with the magic of meditation.
We can all have our own personal or private reasons to meditate and you don’t have to share yours just simply enjoy it as it becomes part of your normal daily life
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