Meditation

INTRODUCTION ************* I practise it four nights a week in my slippers, it helps to keep them fluffy. I find it of enormous benefit in my life. Meditation is a quiet mental activity that is actually a lot less difficult than many people realise. The mind holds the key to many things, some think that by using meditation on a regular basis it brings us a better understanding our inner selves and enriching our daily lives as a result. Meditation acts as a key to unlocking the hidden potentials that we all possess. Mind chatter. We all have it don’t we, that incessant voice in the back of our minds. What does ...

Sadly the concept of learning to meditate is often still linked with turning into some strange incense-burning hippy weirdo who has completely lost touch with reality. Um?well?I have got the incense and the long flowing hair and skirts and the word hippy has been bandied in my direction on more than one occasion. As for reality?huh? That said - meditation is something that benefits everyone from said hippy person to high-flying suit-wearing city slicker. You will feel more rested and able to cope with stress. The practice of letting thoughts go can help combat potential depression and anxiety. General awareness and concentration levels are improved and the ...

Meditation Do you ever get that feeling when everything is becoming too much for you and you want to shout “ Stop the world I want to get off.” ? Well, at times like these meditation is a useful ally to calm, relax, focus and still the mind from the everyday hectic stresses we all have to face at sometime or other. I first started to meditate when I was a teenager, at this age you tend to spend a lot of time in your bedroom chilling out listening to music and you have the time to take up meditation if you choose. When you get older or have children, time seems to be snatched from under your feet and you go on auto-pilot through the day, getting the ...