Guided
Meditation
By Eddie Tobey
For people
who find it hard to do personal meditation, guided meditation can
prove to be a perfect alternative. It is a kind of meditation that
involves getting pointers from a meditation partner to achieve a state
of relaxation. There
are several types of guided meditations. Some involve the partner
telling a relaxing story to the other person. Others would require
the partner to give out instructions to the other person to help him
or her reach a calm state. However, there are some general reminders
in doing guided meditation. In
most cases, guided meditation is best performed in the morning or
evening. During these times, the surroundings are most quiet. For
people who want to get into the practice quicker, twice a day meditation
may prove to be helpful. Likewise, to make the environment more peaceful,
relaxing music can be played. Scented incense sticks can also be lit
to freshen the air.
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Subconscious
Mind - Guided Meditation
By Judith Pearson
Your inner wisdom…your intuition…the mind-body
interface…your guiding spirit…all these are definitions of the subconscious
mind. Your subconscious is the part of your mind responsible for
mental operations that seem beyond the purview of normal consciousness---dreams,
hunches, intuition, moments of insight, flashes of creativity, precognition---even
self-sabotage when we act upon motives of which we are unaware.
If you learn to trust, understand, and communicate
with your subconscious you can tap into dimensions of thought that
may be new to you. Your subconscious mind can serve as a source
of inner guidance, self-knowledge, creativity, better health, and
the motivation to accomplish goals -
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Guided Meditation
in the News
By Kelly Kaufmann
Many studies have been done on the effects of guided
meditation and most of these studies have proven its effectiveness
on calming a person’s mind and body. Guided meditation is not a
new exercise and has been around for many years but since the recent
notice of stressful and time consuming jobs and lives, many people
have turned to it to help relieve their stress and to instruct them
on how to deal with straining situations. Through the use of guided
meditation practices, people who participate in these meditative
sessions are finding more calm and quiet moments in their lives,
even when they are not meditating. -
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Guided
Imagery and Hypnotherapy
ByC.
Bailey Lloyd
As an alternative health treatment, hypnotherapy
is an application used to relieve pain or symptoms in relation to
an individual’s mental state. The common belief is that once a client
crosses the threshold into a trance-like state, the patient becomes
more open to the power of suggestion. During
the 1800s, several well-known healers actually facilitated a form
of hypnosis in their treatments, but later it became apparent that
the treatments that were used then are what we today call, "Hypnosis."
While many researchers have studied the field of hypnotherapy, the
closest and more up-to-date version of the discipline is Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP). Some methods that are often
used in hypnotherapy include age regression; revivification; guided
imagery; parts therapy; confusion; repetition; direct suggestion;
indirect suggestion; mental state; hypnoanalysis; post hypnotic
suggestion; binds; and visualization techniques.-
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