December 7th, 2011  Posted at   Meditation

Meditation has many obvious benefits for your mind, body and soul. Once learned, meditation does not have to be a formal practice. Using meditations informally throughout the day will allow you to be a calmer person and the trials of life can be navigated in a subtle manner. Many people find that meditation opens their conscious mind to their subconscious mind. Some find that the practice of meditation allows them to feel strongly connected to the world around them. Others experience transcendence and great clarity of the mind.

Meditation is done in many forms across the world. It can be looked at as a form of prayer or a method of looking within for guidance. Meditation is often coupled with yoga which expands the mind and body. No matter what form of meditation you learn, you will find benefits. First there are the psychological benefits. If you suffer from negative thinking patterns or depression, meditation can help guide you out of the patterns of negativity by simply calming your thought processes. When you base your existence upon negative thought patterns, your very life is compromised by negativity. Meditation can help you release these thoughts and begin to train your mind to think more positively about yourself. Calming visualizations and letting yourself have thoughts and subsequently letting them go can make a world of difference in your view on the world.

Meditation also has been known to deepen your connection with those around you and not around you. Tapping in to the collective unconscious is part of meditation. When it boils down to it, we are all inner connected. No matter who we are, what we look like, how rich or poor, where we live or what our core beliefs are: we are connected. Meditation brings about a collective experience as it brings you closer to those you think are outrageously different from you. Granted, the existence of evil can not be totally overcome by meditation, yet meditating can draw good into your life, or give you the strength to make positive changes. Personal positive changes within your own patterns of thinking and through meditation brings good into the world.

In our anxiety driven world, we often expect the worst and let fears limit what are capable of doing. Upsetting news stories and technology interferes with the quite part of our minds that we tend to ignore. Meditation can help you confront your fears in a positive manner and send out healing energy to the world. You will not fix all the world’s issues with meditation, yet positive thinking can bring about positive change. Even if the change seems small and insignificant, it probably has had a ripple effect throughout the collective unconscious. Meditation will give you strength of mind, calm serenity and relaxing moments to yourself. You can face challenges head on, such as illness, loss of a job, death in the family or even environmental disasters such as war or violent acts of nature with a different lightness. Meditation can distract you from the negative and uplift you towards the positive in life Read more… »

December 6th, 2011  Posted at   Meditation

Do you feel stressed? Do sometimes feel as if everything is just hard? Do you seem to think that you just have no time to relax? Ever dream of going on a vacation but just cannot seem to find the time nor the finances to afford it? Would you like to find ways to relieve yourself of the stresses of the world without the need to spend too much time and money? Then why don’t you try meditating? Then there are tons of benefits that come with regular meditation.

A clear mind – one of the main benefits of meditating is a clear mind. When you meditate, you often focus your thoughts in just one thing. Meditating takes some practice in order to be able to follow the necessary steps toward meditating properly. If you are able to meditate properly you can be able to clear your thoughts and relieve yourself from any worries. Focusing your thoughts on just one thing will be able to free yourself from your worries in just a few minutes. This can really help you relax. If you put in some meditating time every day, you can really help relax your mind and meet all the challenges that you will get throughout the day.

Physical relaxation – if you fall into a meditating state, everything in your body is relaxed. Your heart rate slows down, your blood pressure drops and your breathing is more relaxed. Experiencing this relaxed state only for a few minutes can already help in rejuvenating your body. Most meditating stances are also comfortable. There are many meditating enthusiasts who claim that after they finish a meditating session the feel both well rested as well as rejuvenated. In fact, there are many meditating experts that no longer drink coffee because all the rejuvenation and re-energization they need already comes from a good meditating session.

Healthy mind and body – because of the relaxed state of your mind and body thanks to meditating, you are able to maintain a healthy mind and a healthy body. There are many masters of meditating that are in the peak of their health even in their advanced years. If you start meditating at a young age, you will definitely be able to maintain your health. Read more… »

December 5th, 2011  Posted at   Meditation

Originated from an early Chinese discipline known as qigong, qigong zhineng is a versatile discipline that is far beyond simple body exercises and movements practiced to strengthen the mind and body. During the 1980s, this branch was given birth by a great qigong grandmaster and professor Ming Pang, more often known by other Chinese as Heming Pang. A title of grandmaster is the top honor a person practicing qigong can achieve. Qigong zhineng is a wonderful mixture of many disciplines, such as Taoism, Buddhism, Traditional Chinese medicine, modern medicine, and martial arts, which makes it interesting to many. At present, there are over 10 million individuals all around the world who are experiencing the wonders of enhanced physical and mental vigor and awareness. More and more people are practicing this discipline because it is fun and simple. Like traditional qigong, this branch also involves deep and focused breathing with gentle and relaxing movements that offer numerous health benefits to its practitioners.

Healing Properties

Qigong is popularly known to help with the body’s rejuvenation and Zhineng Qigong offers more by combining both science of the mind and body with chi kung, or spiritual energy. It gives focus on the connection of the body to the natural environment. It advocates on embracing the surroundings to be one with it. For those who are new to qigong, this is a perfect discipline to start with.

There are 3 stages of Qigong Zhineng that heals the body:

Stage 1 involves 3 primary movements, and these focus on breathing, position, meditation and gentle and relaxed movements created to clear your mind from distractions and focus on harnessing the Qi within you.

Stage 2 has 10 steps which are purposely designed to engage the physical and mental aspects of an individual, thereby boosting the amount of Qi that can be utilized.

Stage 3 makes use of sound, breathing pattern and movement to release and utilize the Qi in order to get physical and emotional purification. Read more… »