About Meditation
Meditation is a specific technique for resting the mind and attaining a state of consciousness that is totally different from the normal waking state. In meditation, you are fully awake and alert, but your mind is not focused on the external world or the events taking place around you. Neither is your mind asleep, dreaming or fantasizing. Instead, it is clear, relaxed, and inwardly focused.
Meditation is available to us all to practise, and we can all, in our own way, benefit from using it in our every day lives.
Meditation is therapeutic right from the beginning. It helps relax muscular tension and the autonomic nervous system, and provides freedom from mental stress. The immune system is strengthened as stress levels and muscular strain reduce as a result of regular practise of meditation. You may even find that after a few weeks of sincere effort, you notice your reactions changing; such as appetite control and emotions like anger to a certain degree. Meditation will also decrease your need for sleep and will energize your body and mind.
Therefore, meditation has become an important influence on our general health. In the modern world, most diseases can be classified to some degree as psychosomatic, having their origin in or being influenced by thoughts and emotions. Recently scientists have begun to recognise that these kinds of diseases cannot be cured by the conventional methods of orthodox medicine or psychotherapy; because if disease originates in your mind and your emotional reactions, how can external therapy alone restore your health? If you rely only on external remedies and do not seek to understand your own mind and emotions, you may merely become dependant on a therapist or physician for help. In contrast, the method of meditation makes people self reliant and helps them to deal more effectively with all of life’s problems.
It is the most simple, and yet most complex of practices. To assist you in your journey into meditation and ultimately a calmer more focussed lifestyle, I have arranged a series of short courses for small groups. Once you have been given the ‘tools’ to begin meditation, all that is required from you is to practise regularly and you will find that the fruits of your efforts are to develop a deeper experience of the benefits.
Please contact me for more details of times and dates.