Meditation

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Why Meditation

Meditation is a mental exercise designed to strengthen focus and mindfulness, helping to prevent your mind from wandering with random thoughts.

Meditation can cultivate positive feelings such as confidence, compassion, love, and forgiveness, in addition to enhancing mental clarity, peace, and calm.

People practice meditation to manage anxiety, stress, PTSD, physical pain and insomnia.

You can meditate anytime—at work, while running errands, during walks, in the bath, or while cooking.

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness meditation is an effective way to bring your mind back to the present and gain control over recurring negative thoughts and feelings.

Body Scan

A body scan guides you to pay attention to various parts of the body and their sensations in a systematic and orderly manner. This form of meditation can be combined with deep breathing.

Progressive Relaxation

Progressive relaxation involves slowly tightening one group of muscles at a time and then relaxing them while exhaling. This process helps your body release tension and achieve deep relaxation.

Focused meditation involves concentrating using one of the five senses. You can direct your focus on something internal, like your breath or a mantra, or on external objects, such as listening to a gong or staring at a flame.

Grounding

Grounding techniques use the five senses or tangible objects to connect the mind and body. The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding method is a simple and age-appropriate technique that can be practiced in various settings, including classrooms.

Take Away

There are many forms of meditation, and you can enhance them with mantras, chanting, prayers, rosary beads, repetitive activities, walking, bathing, or by using diffusers, incense, and candles.