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Potential Health Benefits There are as many forms and techniques of meditation with many different meditation positions that you can take during your practice. Meditation has been practiced since ancient times for the advantages it brings. Incorporation meditation into our daily life can have a dramatic affect on your peace of mind and attitude toward life. Try this healing meditation to see if it helps you to relieve your illness. The benefits are often immediate and life changing. Many practitioners have reported remarkable progress with their afflictions using this technique. But to obtain successful results, one may need to practice this type of meditation several times before noticing any significant results. Keep at it, the worst that can happen is that you will begin to feel better! Reducing stress levels and in achieving peace of mind. Relief of tensions, both mental and physical, Better breathing and better blood circulations. Variations Cross Legged Position One of the most well known positions for meditation is the cross legged position or lotus position. This posture is taught in many meditative traditions with the instruction that the spine must be bept straight and tall. Avoid slouching because it can disrupt the free flow of energy or life force through one's body. Seated Meditation Position Another well known position and one that is generally more comfortable is to sit on a chair with legs uncrossed and feet planted firmly on the ground. Hands can lay comfortably in your lap or with your palms facing upward, right over left. Again, one must keep the back straight and tall and head in alignment when taking a seated position. Reclinding Position The practitioner lies on his/her back on the floor, preferably on a carpet or yoga mat and allows their arms to rest at their sides and their palms to roll upward. Their legs are straight and their feet are gently turned outwards. This is a wonderful meditation posture for stress relief but it is much easier to fall asleep in this position. Others include: Standing Position Walking Position Process Preparation: Turn on background music which includes Chants from Tibetan Buddhist, Chinese Buddhist, Kuan Yin Bodhisattva and Hindu. Visualization: Begin by sitting in a comfortable position and your hands, palms up, in your lap or right palm over left or on one's knees on each side, close your eyes and take a few deep and slow cleansing breaths and notice how it feels as the breath moves enter and leave the body. Three to five is sufficed. Then focus on you posture, relax the shoulders and straighten the back. When people are stressed they often slouch. Eyes may be opened or close. Initially, keeping eyes closed might yield better concentrations.
Procedure No.1 Turn your hand over your knees. Concentrate or visualize your thought (mind) on your right palm while placing your feeling on your left palm. Then raise both palms over your knees slightly. Raise your right palm slightly higher than the left, and then lower your right while raising the left in rhythm, rotation this process for approximately ten minutes or until one or both palms feel somewhat heavy. The purpose is to release the tensions. There usually a warmth sensations in the middle of the palm or both.


Procedure No.2 Turn both palms toward your chest, one hand in front the other in the circle or oval form. Bring the outer palm up and over the other and keep rotating both hands for approximately ten minutes. One may change or reverse the hands position, instead of up and over-try down and under.

Procedure No.3 Place the left palm up while your right turns over but not touching. Circle both palm in opposite direction for approximately ten minutes. The circle may be left to right in one palm while it is right to left in the other. Switch them if becoming tired or simply just wishing to change.

Procedure No.4 This is a free style. One might get tired while practicing any of the first three procedures; therefore, anything goes. Practitioner may stretch his/her arms, hands, body, leg, knees, feet, twist to relief aches and pains whatever it take to make onย comfortable.
Note: You may rotate or alternate any for positions above while practicing. No particular sequential is compulsory. You may change the position to sitting on a chair, standing, walking or lying down. There is no strict rule to adhere, except one must focus to keep at east a part of his/her body, hands, feet and/or head, constantly in motion. For the best result, one should train between three to twelve hours continuously. Side effects: Do not be alarm if your hands, body, face or head wanders. Subconsciously, there might be laughter, crying or screams to let go of tension-permit it, dot not hold back. If there is a feeling of nausea or queasiness, allow yourself to vomit, again-do not prevent it. In fact, vomiting is the major objective of this health meditation; as it allows the body to discharge the toxin within. Surprisingly, there usually is no bitter after taste or bad breath subsequently.
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