A meditation, what is it?
A meditation is like an "adventure" in itself... You have no idea what's going to happen next.
I try to make you want to do it in my own way!
You don't need anything else - except yourself.
No matter where in the world you are, you simply sit upright and with dignity on a chair, stool, park bench... or lie down on your bed, on the beach in the sand or in a meadow in the mountains. you close your eyes You breathe in and out deeply a few times and smell and perceive what you are feeling, feeling, smelling, tasting and letting it affect you.
It's about taking stock, and that can simply feel comfortable, uncomfortable, or neutral. That's all!
Now I would like to invite you to become a witness to your own breathing process, which works flawlessly and completely by itself for you. There is nothing to do, to push, to manipulate or to make an extra effort here, there is no right or wrong here either!
It's just about just observing how you breathe in, how you breathe out, what quality your breath has and then in the next step, where you can feel the breath in your body with one movement.
You sit, you close your eyes if that is comfortable or you open them slightly and your gaze becomes wide and undirected and maybe wanders to the floor in front of you.
Try it. The abdominal wall is probably moving. It expands and widens with the in-breath and slowly and gently retracts again with the out-breath.
Perhaps you can also feel the movement in your chest and shoulder area!? As "it" breathes in, the entire shoulder girdle rises slightly and subtly and gently lowers again as you breathe out.
Or you can feel the breathing movement on the nostrils. As you breathe in, a cooler flow of air flows in through your nostrils and as you breathe out, a warmer flow of air leaves your nostrils.
… and so on! cheerful and relaxed ... !
What should a meditation bring you?
May I cheekily ask you a counter question?
Why do you brush your teeth every morning?
You know the answer. It's the same with meditation.
What you do is very profane and to the point body care.
If you spend the same amount of time meditating, then you are doing "mind care"...you are gifting your parasympathetic nervous system with attention. This is your calming nerve.
Then, as you sit still and feel your breath, your mind will most likely wander. He will dream into the future or work on the past, maybe he will also present you with ideas of what you could still buy, what still needs to be done and done, or what happened during the day.
Then the exercise is to be perceived here in a completely non-judgmental way, oh my, now I'm no longer with the breath but somewhere else. Then try not to be seduced by the idea and think about what is going on in your mind, but try to return to your breath, your meditation. Re-enter your “home port of breath”.
Meditation is about bringing your mind to rest and clearing it in the sense of soothing, and this is not only a Far Eastern practice of yogis or Buddhists, but has also become more and more established and popular in the western part of the world gained importance.
Meditation is also being used more and more in clinics and hospitals for rehabilitation and prevention, because it has now been researched that the healing power of meditation can support healing, for example in cancer, stomach and intestinal diseases, depression and migraine and many other health aspects.
How can meditation do something so "big"?
If a regular meditation practice is established, meditation not only works against stress but also against overreactions of our immune system and overreactions of our immune system often lead to inflammatory diseases. These in turn are often a component of cardiovascular disease, dementia, arthritis, diabetes...
Meditation has an anti-inflammatory effect by shutting down the body.
Stress almost always causes our internal system to "boot up" - the heart rate increases, we sweat, the metabolism changes.
When we feel threatened, our system releases vast amounts of chemical messengers that provide the organism with additional energy.
But one of these hormones, namely cortisol, is harmful to health if it is released over a longer period of time.
In meditation, we regain access to ourselves through our breathing, among other things. We feel the air flowing in and out of our body. In this way, we perceive physical strains and tensions more often and can influence them positively - i.e. relaxing - at an early stage.
This puts us in a position to explore our own organism more and thus prevent complaints before they even have the chance to establish themselves.
If we can coordinate our physical and psychological perception of stress, we can also dampen our stress response. The healing power of mediation is more than balm for our soul, because we train our brain with meditation and that ultimately affects the whole body.
The bottom line is that our health begins in the mind!
The meditation is about, among other things, saying goodbye to a life of drama and a life without drama :-)!
Do you want to try meditating?
You can do that from wherever you are... from the comfort of your own home every Thursday via Zoom...
in the period from 7.45 p.m. to 8.15 p.m. ... on which Thursday you feel like it!
How can I learn to meditate?
- Visit the BECK+RAUM+YOGA homepage
- Click on contact or contact form
- write mail
- Request and receive a zoom link
- Get link and click
- ... and let's go!
I look forward to getting to know you and I am at your disposal in the initial phase of your meditations. Experience shows that a lot of questions can arise at the beginning.
Birgit Beck
Psychological Counselor
Yoga teacher BDY/EYU & VYM
MBSR teacher
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