Healing the past grounded in presence. Co-create your life on your own terms. Through the inner understanding and stillness that meditation offers you can find emotional balance, gratitude and happiness in your daily life. It enhances personal insights and taps into the innate potential for self-healing and wisdom that we all have. Through meditation you can begin to understand what we call the ‘true self’. This allows us to live more consciously in this ever changing world.
People all over the world have found improvement in their daily lives through the practice of meditation. It's the practice of training your focus and awareness in the present moment. That might be your breath, your thoughts, your senses, your bodily movements, etc. These are things we do sometimes anyway, but actively practicing them teaches us to do so intentionally and mindfully.
When we take a look at the various explanations of meditation, one thing we often see is that meditation is defined as taking a moment to sit quietly or to ponder. True meditation, however is much more than this. It is a state of profound, deep peace that occurs when the mind is calm and silent, yet completely alert. This is just the beginning of an inner transformation that takes us to a higher level of awareness. This enables us to fulfil our true human potential.
If one closely examines the authentic tradition of meditation it is apparent that meditation is a discrete and well defined experience of a state called ‘thoughtless awareness’. This is a state in which the excessive and stress producing activity of the mind is neutralised without reducing alertness and effectiveness.
Authentic meditation enables one to focus on the ‘present moment’ rather than dwell on the unchangeable past or undetermined future. It is this state of equipoise that is said to be therapeutic both psychologically and physically and which fundamentally distinguishes meditation from simple relaxation, physical rest or sleep.
Meditation has been developed in Eastern cultures and has a documented history of more than several thousand years. Eastern meditative techniques have been developed, trialed and refined over hundreds of generations with the specific intention of developing a method by which anyone can regularly attain a state of mental peace and tranquillity, i.e. relief from stress. It is a strategy that has been progressively adopted by a large number of clinicians (cardiologists, psychologists etc.) and their patients in the West. Meditation is seen by a number of scientific researchers as potentially one of the most effective forms of stress reduction.
Some benefits of a regular practice of meditation include:
Decrease stress and anxiety
Enjoy a peaceful state of mind
Strengthen your immune system
Improve concentration and focus
Increase motivation
Improve sleep
Promote emotional health
Improve cognition
In our program you’ll explore what meditation is and is not, and how it can still your inner dialogue, help you to get in touch with your emotions and handle negative thoughts and behaviours with positivity and efficiently. You’ll discover all the ways meditating can benefit you. The course covers the physical benefits such as decreasing muscle tension and reducing anxiety, psychological benefits like building self-confidence and increasing productivity, and even the benefits to spiritual development such as increased awareness and a deeper understanding of the self.
With a focus on helping you to monitor, understand and properly process your thoughts and feelings, meditation crosses over into the practice of mindfulness. Our Meditation Program explores this relationship and how you can use both to balance your mind and live a life of positivity. Of course, you will be guided through the practical aspects of how to meditate, what you can do to prepare to meditate, and how to start the practice and develop it depending on your needs and goals. In addition to opening you up to the benefits, principles, and practices of a
variety of meditation types.
Private sessions are an amazing way of learning and implementing meditation as a regular practice as the program will be designed according to your needs. Also, any difficulties or challenges can be quickly recognised and resolved.
The personal practice is designed for you is based on your interests, learning style, schedule and especially your strengths. From the vast array of available techniques, your coach will choose the one for you that you are more likely to enjoy and stay motivated. This doesn’t mean that meditation will always be smooth sailing. Sometimes, as you go deeper you may confront difficult issues from your life. I will be available to help you negotiate your way through during the whole program.
The programs available are designed to provide different levels of support from jump starting your practice to a 8 weeks program where you’ll have the opportunity to dive deep within yourself. In these programs we meet once a week for 1:30 hour and you’ll receive pdfs with the material and scripts of the techniques we are exploring along the course. I’m also available during the whole course to support you via messages, emails and phone calls in case you need any clarification and/or are facing any challenge with your practice.
Definitions of meditation vary, depending on the form you are practising and during the course we will have a look in different perspectives and approaches to meditation including scientific, religious and philosophic background; however, many forms involve training your mind to pay attention.
There are lots of different techniques, styles and purposes regarding meditation but the Australian Teachers of Meditation Association says 'in its broadest and most universal definition, meditation is a discipline that involves turning the mind and attention inward and focusing on a single thought, image, object or feeling'.
It helps develop skills in:
This 'training' is particularly helpful in preventing your mind from slipping into a "default mode" of focusing on replaying the past, worrying about the future and other negative thoughts. This pattern of thinking can leave us vulnerable to mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, or just feeling stressed (which in turn can increase our risk of poor physical health).
Feeling relaxed and focused can be an immediate side effect of practising meditation, but evidence now suggests meditation has many long-term health benefits. It can also help improve mental performance.
A meditation coach is an experienced meditation teacher who can choose from a range of techniques to design a personal meditation practice for you. Any difficulties or challenges can be quickly recognised and resolved.
The personal practice that a coach creates for you is based on your interests, learning style and especially your strengths. From the vast array of available techniques, your coach will choose the one for you that you are more likely to enjoy and stay motivated. This doesn’t mean that meditation will always be smooth sailing. Sometimes, as you go deeper you may confront difficult issues from your life. Your coach will be available to help you negotiate your way through.
Your program with your coach typically begins with a discussion around your strengths and what parts of your life could be improved or transformed. People who incorporate meditation into their lives, over time can become less stressed, better able to concentrate, think creatively, communicate effectively and reach levels of peak performance. They are often also more balanced, quick thinking and in touch with their own core strengths and values.
If you would like to bring these advantages into your life, your meditation coach can offer a short course of weekly or fortnightly individual meditation coaching sessions, followed by as many regular follow-up sessions as you need to consolidate your practice. An individual program that works at your own speed is a very efficient use of your time and finances.
Meditation has been shown to trigger a wide variety of changes in the brain and body.
One of the costs of having a distracted and inattentive mind is the over-activation of the "stress response" – the "fight or flight" response – that prepares us to either fight off or escape situations we perceive as dangerous or threatening.
This stress response can be triggered inappropriately when we:
Some research suggests this causes "wear and tear" on our body that over time increases our risk of illness.
There are now many hundreds of studies published in scientific journals showing that meditation, practised regularly, can be helpful in managing, preventing and coping with a range of mental and physical health problems.
These include:
There is also research that suggests meditation can help boost immunity, improve DNA repair (a cellular process important to preventing a range of illnesses) and slow the changes to DNA that occur with ageing (and predispose us to diseases associated with ageing such as cancer).
It is possible to find a very long list of other benefits of meditation for physical and mental health, all supported by scientific research.
You don't need to be religious to practise or benefit from meditation, but meditation is part of most major religions and the forms of meditation practised in this context often involve developing a heightened spiritual awareness.
If you want, you can also expand your practise of meditation to explore more spiritual aspects once you have learned some basic meditation skills.
No, but it certainly helps if you do! Learning to meditate is a skill that improves with consistent practice.
Experts describe meditation as a workout for the mind, and just as regular exercise is necessary to build and maintain fitness; regular practice of meditation builds a form of "mental fitness".
A quiet space makes meditation easier, which is helpful when you are learning.
Exposure to noise is a challenge, but it helps improve your skills and makes meditation more portable, so you can practice "mini meditations" anywhere throughout the day.
Practice trying not to block out noises or any other distractions and just let them be.
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