Meditation: it is not what you think!

Are you tired of hearing you need to relax but nobody telling you how?

We take our Sarvanga approach to health. To be healthy we must be able to have a healthy state of awareness, which involves the ability to focus and maintain attention on the present moment.  In other words if your mind is playing a non- stop recording of a worry that you may have, it cannot give full attention to a task at hand.  Meditation is a tool to help you achieve that focus.

We develop habits in all aspects of our lives. Many of us develop the habit of negative thinking. We do this out of repetition, and because of life experiences that we have had, or messages that we were given. We set up negative “self-talk”. We are often not even conscious that we do this. Meditation brings a keen awareness to our “self talk”. It is empowering to know that you can change that chatter in your mind, and when you do amazing things happen! Your self esteem is raised and you start believing you can achieve great things….because you can!

There are many meditation techniques. We help you find techniques that work for you.

The benefits of meditation are endless.  The obvious is that it helps to develop a sense of contentment and serenity. Through meditation we can alter brainwaves. We learn to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. It is in this state that we release “feel good” chemicals in the body. We can regulate blood pressure, heart rate, and teach the muscles of the body to release tension.  Ahh doesn’t that sound wonderful? No more tension headaches. No more sleepless, restless nights!

We spend most of our day in our sympathetic nervous system; we enter our “flight or fright mode”.  This system serves a great purpose if we need to protect ourselves. We are not programmed to spend all day in this state however, many of us do. The body releases stress hormones when we are in this state. Our sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive and our bodies and mental states are paying the price.

It is very empowering to know that you can have tools to invoke a mental balance!

On a spiritual level (whatever your faith tradition) meditation brings that deep sense of calm to connect with spirit.

Meditation is exercise for the nervous system. What kind of shape is yours in?

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