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Healing Circle - Cleansing Your Chakras – How to Cleans Chakras. Here is a powerful meditation we can do right now for cleaning chakra's from Doreen Virtue’s "The Lightworker’s Way": Take a deep breath through your nose and hold it for about four seconds, exhale slowly through your mouth, now do this again…..slowly Completely relax….slowly .release all the tension in your body, see it flowing down through your feet into mother earth to be transformed…… Visualize or feel a round and transparent ball, coloured in a beautiful shade of ruby red, floating inside your body near the base of your spine.

This is your "root chakra" the centre of your strength and individuality. Mentally look at or sense the ball. Notice if it has any areas of darkness. These are energy imbalances, and you can immediately wash them away by simply intending the ball to be perfectly clean. The Human Energy Field Session 6 Excerpt The Human Energy Field or Aura is an energetic, multidimensional field that surrounds penetrates, and is the human body. Top 15 Meditation Techniques For Beginners And Advanced Meditators | Free Meditation Music.

There are several meditation techniques that one can do in order to alleviate the difficulties we experience in life. Meditation is a discipline that can allow an individual to discover a deeper state of relaxation that eliminates stress that we experience every day. Through this practice, one cultivates optimism delivering a sense of peace into the whole well-being. Let us understand these meditation techniques and try to find which of these practices would best suit you. 1. Chakra Meditation Techniques Your body has seven energy points also known as ‘Chakra’s which can be located on points where your vital organs are. The ‘Solar plexus’, yellow, is located on the stomach. With the energy harmoniously flowing through these chakra points, one can overcome stress and prevent illness from entering the body. 2.

Japa meditation is unique from other meditation techniques because it involves chanting a name of God repetitively “Hare Krishna Maha”. 3. 4. Intermediate Meditation Techniques 5. 6. SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet. Lamrim: The Stages of the Buddhist Path | How to Meditate.

In general, any virtuous object can be used as an object of meditation. If we discover that by acquainting our mind with a particular object our mind becomes more peaceful and virtuous, this indicates that for us that object is virtuous. If the opposite happens, for us it is a non-virtuous object. Many objects are neutral and have no particular positive or negative effect on our mind. If we appreciate the great potential of this life we shall not waste it There are many different virtuous objects of meditation. By relying upon a qualified Spiritual Guide we open the door to practising Dharma. Through the blessings of our Spiritual Guide we generate faith and confidence in our practice, and easily attain all the realizations of the stages of the path. We need to meditate on love, compassion…. and develop and maintain a good heart towards all living beings. Demystifying meditation -- brain imaging illustrates how meditation reduces pain.

Public release date: 5-Apr-2011 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Marguerite Beckmarbeck@wakehealth.edu 336-716-2415Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – April 5, 2011 – Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the April 6 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience. "This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation," said Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., lead author of the study and post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

"We found a big effect – about a 40 percent reduction in pain intensity and a 57 percent reduction in pain unpleasantness. For the study, 15 healthy volunteers who had never meditated attended four, 20-minute classes to learn a meditation technique known as focused attention. . [ Print | E-mail AAAS and EurekAlert! Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in eight weeks. Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.

In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain's grey matter. "Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day," says Sara Lazar, PhD, of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, the study's senior author. "This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing. " Meditation May Protect Your Brain. For thousands of years, Buddhist meditators have claimed that the simple act of sitting down and following their breath while letting go of intrusive thoughts can free one from the entanglements of neurotic suffering.

Now, scientists are using cutting-edge scanning technology to watch the meditating mind at work. They are finding that regular meditation has a measurable effect on a variety of brain structures related to attention — an example of what is known as neuroplasticity, where the brain physically changes in response to an intentional exercise. A team of Emory University scientists reported in early September that experienced Zen meditators were much better than control subjects at dropping extraneous thoughts and returning to the breath. The same researchers reported last year that longtime meditators don’t lose gray matter in their brains with age the way most people do, suggesting that meditation may have a neuro-protective effect.

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