“Habituating Ourselves to Positive Attitudes, Beneficial Emotions, and Accurate Perspectives”
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Recommendations: “When done on a regular basis (close to 15-20mins per day), meditation seems to be pretty good for your health, decreasing glucocorticoid levels, sympathetic tone, and all the bad stuff that too much of either cause.” - Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
Meditation Benefits:
Our mind is calmer and clearer
It will make us more compassionate and wiser
Reduces Stress
May help with allergies, anxiety, asthma, binge eating, cancer, depression, fatigue, heart dis-ease, high blood pressure, sleep difficulties, and substance abuse.
Practice: (we do it over and over again) Repetition is key to transforming our minds. “Although we want to maintain this pure awareness continuously, our mind slips back into its familiar ways.” - (Thubten Chondra)
There are many forms of meditation, mindfulness meditation, spiritual meditation, focused meditation, movement meditation, mantra meditation, transcendental meditation, find what works best for you.
Pilates, a moving meditation. "Paying attention means watching, noticing, without comment. It doesn't mean judging, criticizing, or feeling guilty. You are just seeing yourself as you are, observing your body, your mind, and your feelings, and how they interact with one another. You will probably notice how much you avoid yourself, particularly your weak areas, or how often you want to change the subject, start fidgeting, remember something that needs to be done, or suddenly get very tired; how easily you fill your days with things to do so there are no empty spaces.
Pay attention to your feelings by watching how you respond to different situations and people. Watch your anxieties and fears. Notice your desires and how you manipulate events or people to get your needs fulfilled. See how your feelings stimulate different responses, or what is happening emotionally before you get a headache or your back starts aching.
As awareness grows you may find yourself confronting old patterns of behavior or lost memories that have shaped your thinking. Bringing awareness to the interaction between your mind, emotions, body, and behavior can open the door to whatever has been repressed, denied or ignored and enables those energies to move out of the darkness and into consciousness. Sometimes that is all that is required. Shining light on what has been hidden means acknowledging it, accepting it, and bringing it into the wholeness of your being." -Deb Shapiro (Your Body Speaks Your Mind)
Moving Meditation:
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