MEDITATION AND RELAXATION
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Related Contents/Links pages: Energy, Relaxation, Rest Contents/Links & Thinking Brain       

"Brain and body coherence, versus scatterness and incoherence, are the secrets to living well."
"Meditation is simply building the attention muscle.  We learn to see thoughts as thoughts, accepting the present moment, and we grow in our ability to shape our future moments with wisdm and clarity."

THE SECTIONS

            ABOUT MEDITATION                                               TYPES OF MEDITATION
                                                                                              (Links into free ones)
       
YOUTUBE ON TRANSCENDTAL MEDITATION                  YOUTUBE MEDITATION VIDEOS

                                                                                              YOUTUBE HYPNOSIS VIDEOS
































Meditation Intro page - Absolutely beneficial, no doubt, but how and how much are the questions.

List of Meditation Benefits, as it will change your life (& brain)
    More Indepth Summary Of Why And How
        Meditation Works 
    The Objectives Of Meditation And Of Life Itself:
        Healthy Thinking/Emotions
    Rewiring The Brain 
         Why Are Buddhist Monks So Happy? -
               There are clues here!
    The Low Attention Span and The Effect Of
         Increasing It 
         ADHD Kids Before And After (Video 3:28)   
    Using Meditation To Deal With Panic Attacks 
         Video (8:26)
Calm Coherence Allows the ability to see and think clearly.   Meditation also attains "brain coherence."
Peace Of Mind Techniques - In the moment and for the long term. 
Meditation's Highest Use 


NECESSARY REALIZATIONS

Thoughts Are Just Thoughts - Vital knowing!
    Beliefs Are Just Recordings
    Does Thinking Control Everything? 
The Truths And Realities Of Life - Accept these and your life will work much better.  Also you can do a meditation (or writing) on any question.



RELAXING THE BODY  

Counting downward into deeper relaxation
Relaxed, Centered, In Touch, 3 Minutes At A Time - Aka "scan + allies"

GETTING CENTERED, GROUNDED

Getting Centered For The Day - List and links to readings, affirmations, etc., which can be used for a "thinking meditation."
Visualize-Feel - Body centered, "being" centered


TO IMPLEMENT

Resources For Meditation  



Meditation itself is not spirituality, though it is good for the spirit. 

Spirituality - Not religion, not "woo-woo", but vigor and feeling good about life, as in "good spirits".


THE TYPES OF MEDITATIONS

Note that the "relaxing the body" exercises are forms of meditation.  Take the meditations provided by those resources listed in Resources For Meditation.

Tools For Focus:

The Short Pause and/or The Time Out Tool 

Meditations To Listen To

Breathing meditation - 3 minute breathing  A Quick
   Exercise to Clear Your Mind (Video, 4:24)
Gratitude meditation 
    Videos Related To Gratitude - Lots
Loving Kindness Meditation (Video, 9:38) 
Compassion Meditation  (& Video, 14:50)
Safe Place Meditation (Video, 5:09)
I Am Safe Meditation (Video, 1:18)
Relax Into Greatness (Stryker) -  Video version.      
   (Deep relaxation, 15 min)
Pondering a question or subject 
   Exercises, Meditations Listing - Tolle, put
      some of these in your regular meditations or
      keep them available for variety.
    Any of the eight pathways

Articles on types of meditation

Visualization of how you'll feel, senses, etc., of a
    created event or way of being (The Movies Of
    Your Mind)

Vipassana Meditation 

My Morning Meditation - Primarily around some statements I wish to emblazon in my brain and then several ways to meditate on them.
YOUTUBE HYPNOSIS RELATED VIDEOS 

Can access hypnosis on specific areas, such as weight loss, abundance.

Take control of YOUR MIND - Total relaxation (20:47)

Relaxation (18:41)
Confidence (24:17)
Social Anxiety -  1 of 12, to listen to (20:50)
Insomnia Relief (50:16)


Subliminals (they either work or don't, but you can relax with them)

Positive Thinking

YOUTUBE ON TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION

For now just enter this into the search engine on YouTube.com.

The One Minute Meditation (tm) Video (5:02) - Use her  reminder system and free mp3 download: Link Stillness   

On "MeditationChannel" (www.tm.org)
A summary of research on the Transcendental Meditation technique  
The TM Experience - How Transcendental Meditation Works  (3:42)
Dr. Oz on TM  video (2:11)  
Veterans with PTSD - Can Transcendental Meditation Help?   (7)

Notes, being worked on




Transcendental Meditation
Results are twice as great as any other technique 
Carryover in everyday life, steadies fight or flight response, soothing effect throughout the day.  Huge affect on heart health, prolongs life itself.

Do when:  at good transition times, to resettle yourself or to start off a day..

Soothing and relaxing meditation 
joyful in spirit
profoundly relaxes
thinking nothing specifics
Deep seated stress is dissolved 
Calms the mind calms nervous system

intense state of rest 



mantra   om    so hum 



brain coherence vs incoherence scattered all about, insanity



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