Posts Tagged ‘Meditation’

How Massage Reduces Stress Hormones

The art of massage has been practiced for generations. In countries like India, Persia and China, this art is known as a form of meditation which is used to treat strains and sore muscles. Massage will help to relax you and has many other benefits. It contributes to healthy living. There will be improvement in blood circulation and will also increase the number of red blood cells in the body.

Eliminate tension with Massager Machines

Nothing can rejuvenate you like a relaxing massage after a hectic day. A long day in the office, and prolonged hours on the computer can result in stiffness in the back, shoulder, and neck. A back massage will reduce your stress level. Handheld massagers are available on the market which can offer immense relief. A massage is good for your body and soul because it rejuvenates the senses and maintains a balance in energy levels. Besides de-stressing the body, massage helps in eliminating tension. Those who have high blood pressure can benefit from a good massage.

Different body massagers for different massage effects

Most handheld massagers are user-friendly. You can make a wide variety of adjustments with the programs. If you have sleeping problems, this will relax your body and mind to help you sleep better. Regular massages can help to reduce joint and neck pain. Massage can also be a great mood enhancer. Read more…

The Therapist As a Client – Or Not?

Most therapists I know go into this field to help people. I bet you did too. Humor me for a second as I invite you to do a short visualization exercise.

I want you to think about one of your favorite therapy client success stories. Remember that special client and the pain or confusion they experienced before seeking your counsel. Picture them in your mind when they first came into your office. Remember their posture, tone of voice and the energy they projected. Now, fast forward through your treatment and see them emerging. The pain is less (or gone). The fear is manageable and the future looks incredibly bright. Breathe in the joy that you feel when you look at the transformation with that client.

What an amazing privilege it is to be a therapist.

People share their deepest worries and pain with us. They trust us with their hearts and their future. It is an amazing honor to do this work.

Month after month, we help people. No matter what your theoretical orientation, we do this work because we want to help people. We believe in the healing process of our work. Simply put, we believe in therapy. Incredibly, the Psychotherapy Networker reports: “Surveys find that 20 to 25% of therapists have never sat in the client’s chair.”

When I first read that, I didn’t believe it. Can you? How can we be so clear of the benefits and power of therapy if that many in our profession have never tried it? Read more…

Panic Attack Disorder – How To Deal With It?

A panic attack can ruin your lifestyle, career and happiness. Here are some quick steps for overcoming a panic attack disorder.

Step 1: Get out of guilt

For the majority of the people, a panic attack gets worse when he or she starts self-blaming. Make your mind believe that you didn’t get the problem for only your shortcomings. There are many other things that had to do a lot with it. For finding a recovery, getting out of guilt is the first thing you want to do.

“It’s not all my fault” – say this to yourself as much as possible. You should use those words as an auto suggestion (something that you say to your subconscious minds). The biggest problem within a case of panic attack disorder is that you can hardly find anyone who seems to realize what your sufferings are like. But the above mentioned auto suggestions can help you out.

Step 2

Sever cases of panic can be resultant from panic attacks. So you got to learn how to deal with such things. Offense is the best defense for the majority of the panic attack disorder cases. So be prepared to face the panic attack head on.

Keep telling your subconscious mind “THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TYPICAL PANIC ATTACK. IT WON’T HURT ME IF I DON’T LET IT TO.” And keep telling this suggestion to your mind, ever single time you’re faced with a panic attack disorder. You should view you the attack as your spoiled child and yourself as the stern parent in action. Read more…

How to Fight "Brain Fog" With Meditation

How often have you felt forgetful or seem to have lost your short-term memory? You know the feeling I’m talking about. You start losing your attention, feel spacey, and there’s a problem with focusing on the tasks at hand.

Did you know that meditation can help you cut down on “brain fog” like this? If you learn how to meditate, over time, it helps you to clear your mind and cut down on states of mental stupor. Because meditation involves learning to let go of the thoughts that run around in your head, with practice you can learn to let go of the state of unclarity that arises in your mind that meditators call dullness, brain fog or stupor. Naturally it takes some practice order to achieve this ability with proficiency. Nevertheless, it’s well worth the effort because that’s the purpose of meditation in the first place.

The cardinal rule of meditation is to let go of your thoughts, but to maintain awareness of everything that goes on in your mind while letting your mind give rise to thoughts freely. When people start to watch their mind this way, at first the mind starts to get clearer and they reach a realm of mental clarity. But after this initial spurt of progress, it actually seems like their mind is becoming busier than ever before and more confused than they’ve ever known it to be. This is not actually a step backwards but a step forwards, and people who think they are retrogressing when this happens are actually misinterpreting their stage of achievement. Read more…

How Meditation Helps in Reducing Stress?

Stress is the most commonly used term for mental pressure. Stress can be any time, any where and with any one. While following our hectic schedules it becomes an impossible task to maintain good and healthy life styles. Although many books, magazines, psychologists, health experts and physical trainers and other sources give many ways to reduce stress, one point that everyone agrees to is meditation.

Meditation helps us to make our life more smooth and relaxed. Meditation helps us to fight a number of health problems apart from stress. Meditation can be done in the morning, as well as in the evening, preferably before a heavy meal. It is also true that you cannot get relief from stress just by meditating for a single day. It takes time for the beginners to meditate. You need to learn meditations first from an expert trainer. You need to know how to concentrate. Your mind should be focused at one particular point. These are a few points that a beginner must take into consideration. There are other methods of meditation also. There are many meditation training centers that train you how to meditate and gives lessons on meditation. Read more…

What Lies Beneath Meditation?

Many of us experience a meditative state without realizing it. For example, times when we are sitting outdoors, perhaps beside a stream or in a peaceful backyard, when everything seems to drop away, including all our thoughts or concerns, and we enter into a deeply peaceful stillness… an inner quite. In this quite, we feel as if we have dissolved and are no longer something separate or individual, but have merged with everything around us. We become the trees, the birds, and the water – there is no separation, no difference between us.

This state is very joyful; however, it does not necessarily last! Our minds and senses are so powerful that we being distract by every-day concerns, pulled into our worries or personal dramas, our habits or confusion, until this feeling of inner quite seems very far away. However, the more we practice meditation, for example, specific techniques to bring purposefully the mind into a focused and still place, the more we experience an inner quite.

The practice of meditation, which may include contemplation and prayer, is an aspect of systems. If we are too externalized and busy with thoughts, we are unable to perceive the beauty around us or to receive divine inspiration. But meditation is not limited to religious practice; it also has far-reaching implications in our fast – moving and highly demanding world for bringing balance and harmony to our lives. Read more…

Ringing in the Ears – Treatments That Work

Ringing in the ears or tinnitus as it is more commonly called affects millions of people. For these people this awful disease makes everyday living extremely uncomfortable.

The good news is there are treatments that can help you live a ring-free life.

The first thing to do is educate yourself. You need to learn everything you can about this disease. The reason for this is that is often found that treating only one of the symptoms of ringing of the ears does not effectively eliminate the problem. So if you have a broad understanding of the disease you stand a much better chance of finally ridding yourself of this nightmare illness.

Remember you need to treat the whole disease not just one symptom – this is often why people think they have an incurable illness – this is just not true. Read more…

Derive Inner Strength From Meditation

Having inner strength is very important in order to face any negative energies or thoughts. The inner strength derived from deep inside prevents you from getting swayed by undesirable circumstances in life. You become self-confident and learn to practice self-control. But how does that happen? Meditation is a great way of developing your inner strength.

Meditation is defined as a state in which an individual’s attention is concentrated on a particular object of thought. In such a state, the attention of the individual is turned inwards to a single point. It is often acknowledged as a crucial element of religions practiced across Asia, such as Hinduism and Buddhism in countries such as India, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia etc. Meditation has been practiced by these religions for more than 5,000 years.

Meditation teaches you a lot of things. It can help in generating thoughts that are below the threshold of conscious perception. The unconscious mind holds a stock of information and details that help in the formulation of other key skills. In order to be able to meditate perfectly, one has to focus on creating a balance between the subconscious mind and the inner self. Read more…