Meditation is an excellent way to relax and to allow the stress from the day to flow from your body. It doesn't have to include long periods of sitting in the dark, with your eyes closed. On the contrary, meditation can be as simple as taking ten deep breaths, on your way home from work. Finding the techniques that work best for you are critical to the success of your relaxation program.
Here are Three Easy Meditation Techniques:
1. Roots.
-Sit with your legs crossed, lying down, or however you find yourself most comfortable.
-Inhale through your nose.
-Imagine your body is the trunk of a tree and on the inhale your roots come up from the ground and in to your body, where it touches the floor.
-On the exhale, imagine the roots flowing back down, deep in to the ground below you.
-This is an easy, relaxing and beneficial meditation. Try as little as ten breaths, and work your way up to thirty minutes.
2. Senses
-This meditation calls upon the five senses to improve relaxation as well as concentration.
-Start with sight. Find an object, such as a pen and stare at it for a few minutes. Try to take a mental photograph of its every detail such as branding, colour, size etc.
-Put it away and close your eyes. Now draw the image back in your mind. Try to recreate the image you saved in your mind as you bring the object back piece by piece at a time until the entire object is suspended in your imagination.
-Repeat this process for the rest of the senses: Feel (an emotion, like joy), touch, taste, sound and smell.
-This exercise can be very beneficial during stressful times. If you find yourself in an emotionally stressful situation, it's great to able to recreate your favourite taste, smell or emotion.
3. Heart
-This is a beautiful meditation that will leave you feeling rejuvenated and alive.
-Close your eyes and picture your heart beating inside your chest with strong, pronounced thumps.
-Now slowly allow your imagination to replace the image of the heart with a white rose.
-White symbolizes spiritual purity.
-Picture the petals slowly opening and blue smoke rising out the top.
-Blue symbolizes intellectual brilliance.
-As the smoke rises, picture your consciousness merging with the smoke and drifting upwards.
-Allow the image to slowly fade from your imagination.
-Open your eyes slowly. Especially if you are not in the dark.
These are three great starter exercises to meditation and relaxation. If you would like more exercises or have any questions, feel free to contact me anytime.
Relax!
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