The word meditation has a range of associations: buddhist, sitting in the lotus position (painful!), takes hours, New Age, alternative, an ‘activity’  for people who has nothing else to do, OTT, nonsense, vague navel gazing……

To name but a few. What misses in this list is ‘naturaly healing state’. Meditation activates our internal, natural function to heal the nervous system, the brain and our senses. As essential as food and water for our well being.

And it is all in physiology. Meditation is something the body knows how to do, and does willingly if you set up the conditions and allow it. The body knows how to enter a profound healing state. All you have to do is pay attention in certain ways, and tolerate the intensity of what you feel as you let go of stress. One possible answer is that meditation is a built-in ability of the human body. The word meditation is just a name we give to the situation where we give the nervous system, the brain and senses a chance to tune themselves up. More than a chance – meditation is giving total permission for the nervous system to do its healing thing. And since this is an innate thing, the body and brain are very good at it. People are naturally good at meditation, like cats are naturally good at hunting mice. And when we don’t meditate, it is as if we are “meditation-deprived.” In other words, we are not adding something weird to our life – we are just giving ourselves something we need.

What is weird, is to NOT meditate.

In other words, it is unnatural to go through life deprived of a time each day to rest more deeply than sleep, and let go of all the stresses that keep you wound so tight. If this is true, then this is part of why meditation has such powerful effects – because it is a way of giving into the powerful mind/body healing dynamics that we already have within us, as part of our genetic heritage. Or, you could say, God put it there. Meditation is one of the few things in the self-help arena you can do that produces measurable changes. In other words, you can take a few hours of meditation training, and then go into a medical lab and meditate, and they can measure the changes in your breathing, your blood chemistry, your brain waves, and your response to stress. And if you were sitting in a medical lab, all wired up, and they saw you enter a state of rest deeper than sleep in 5 minutes, a knowledgeable researcher would look at the instruments and say, “Oh, you just started meditating. I can see it on the meters.”

Read what novices to meditation experienced after their first 2 hour teaching class during my meditation workshop.

If you want to try out meditation and see how it works for you, get one of my downloads and get going. Alternatively, book on one of the workshops in Surrey and find out for yourself how you benefit!

 

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