A simple, relaxing guided visualisation meditation session, suitable for beginners or those that are new to guided meditation. Begin by imagining yourself outside in your favourite place in nature. It could be a relaxing tropical beach, it could be a flourishing old garden, or maybe a peaceful forrest. Choose a location that feels good for you.
Meditation is widely used in the western world today. As people hear of the benefits of meditation it has travelled the world several times over under various different names. One thing that we have realised though is that countries like India, China and Japan have always been at the forefront of meditation. Most of the new enlightenment techniques that we are just learning now started in Asia, and often centuries ago.
Perhaps you think the statement that meditation doesn't work is harsh or untrue. However, if you have ever tried to enter a state of meditation then you know just how impossible it seems to be! Much research, in the scientific field, points to the fact that meditation can make you healthier (both emotionally and physically), make you look younger, bolster the immune system, help you recover faster after operations, reduce stress, help you to live longer, remove past emotional issues and alter negative beliefs.
The title of this article may seem a little strange. How can I say meditation does not work when there is a vast amount of research which seems to show that it does? Much research, in the scientific field, points to the fact that meditation can; make you healthier (both emotionally and physically), make you look younger, bolster the immune system, help you recover faster after operations, reduce stress, help you to live longer, remove past emotional issues and alter negative beliefs.
Even those who have never heard of binaural beats have elementary knowledge of meditation though it may be slightly misguided. Although meditation is becoming more popular in the western world it has been practised for thousands of years in the East. It is only recently that binaural beats have been used to create the same effect.
When everyone else was listening to Guns N' Roses, wearing tight jeans with baseball boots and perming their overgrown hair, a man called Bill Harris was busy creating a truly unique personal development product - Holosync. Harris's Holosync product centred on the idea that you could listen to a CD and enter a state of meditation akin to that of a Zen Buddhist Monk.
Problems? Sleep over it and daydream the solution in less than twenty minutes. Meditation is a key practice to help you keep your mind focused on what ever you decide to think to. And an unemotional, objective mind is a lot more efficient at problem solving than a mind distracted by the emotional burden of fears and hopes.
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