Meditation and the Expansion of Consciousness
Healing meditation is an esoteric of consciousness that results in the expansion of consciousness beyond the day-to-day experience of duality. It is an experience of unity, which reduces stress and brings increased creativity and efficiency to the functioning of the inner faculty.
A meditative state is when your body and mind are in a deep state of relaxation. It’s not about the absence of thoughts, but more about not getting tangled up in them. Your awareness is heightened, and you might find things seem clearer and more manageable, allowing a sense of inner calm to emerge.
In recent years thousands of people have participated in studies that confirm the beneficial effects of meditation for stress, depression, managing chronic pain, insomnia and other conditions. Clearly, there are forms of meditation practice that can help people cope with what ails them. But did you know that in some cases meditation can even help people cure what ails them. Meditation can transform the mind; mind can transform the body.
The Science of Meditation and the Brain
The area of using meditation for self-healing has been of great interest to brain researchers around the globe. Numerous studies have revealed the relationship between meditation and a healthy brain. It would seem that the brains of long-term meditators are wired a bit differently than those of non-meditators.
Two regions of the brain are responsible for depression, anger, stress and anxiety: the right prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. These regions become overly active when your mind is agitated or you’re upset. The left prefrontal cortex, on the other hand, is associated with feelings of peace, happiness, self-awareness and positivity. This region is activated in the brains of consistent meditators.
So is the production of the “happy” neurotransmitter serotonin – in fact, some anti-depressants artificially increase serotonin, and that’s what makes people feel less blue. Clinical studies have also linked production of dopamine with meditation. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that helps create feelings of pleasure and reward (just like chocolate, but without the calories.)
Meditation is believed to influence the sympathetic nervous system, keeping blood pressure, respiration and heart rate in check. When poorly controlled, these are the physical parameters that go hand in hand with feelings of stress and anxiety.
There’s no question that stress and anxiety are linked to a wide variety of maladies, including heart attacks, high blood pressure, digestive issues, sexual dysfunction and insomnia. And science concurs that many forms of meditation help reduce stress, starting with mindfulness, as practiced in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for example, and Transcendental Meditation, as well as relaxation meditation, guided meditations, walking meditation and more.
Cosmic Healing Meditation
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Sit or lie down for meditation practice.
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Bring your awareness to body, observe from all direction, feel the sense and let it go.
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Be aware of your mind, the thoughts, feelings, emotion…
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Be aware of breath, feel the natural flow of breath.
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Switch the aware to the mid eye brow center. Find a dot in the form of light just four inches behind the mid eye brow center. It is pineal gland as symbol of consciousness.
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Now visualize your body is weightless. Made up of cotton or feather.
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Feel your body is levitating from the floor towards ceiling.
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Imagine you are flying above the roof of the building.
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You are flying more higher towards the blue sky.
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Now you have reached to the sky to receive the cosmic healing energies.
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Visualize red color of energy is poured to the base of spine at root center from cosmos.
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Visualize orange color of energy is poured to the hara center from cosmos.
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Visualize yellow color of energy is poured to the navel center from cosmos.
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Visualize green color of energy is poured to the heart center from cosmos.
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Visualize blue color of energy is poured to the throat center from cosmos.
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Visualize purple color of energy is poured to the mid eyebrow center from cosmos.
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Visualize white color of energy is poured to the crown center from cosmos.
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Slowly now fly back to the earth at your place.
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Find difference in your body and mind before and after.
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Be in present moment, feel the movement of abdominal region.
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Externalize to sounds from outside, feel the sensation of body and breath.
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Now come out to normal consciousness from meditation.
The Natural Healing Mechanism
Meditation not only makes our lives more meaningful, it also offers us a natural healing mechanism. Many ailments begin with an imbalanced or stressed mind and develop in susceptible parts of the body. By working with the mind and learning to better manage the triggers that disturb it, we bolster the body’s natural defenses.
Guided meditation for healing is a great way to release the stress that accumulates in the mind and the tensions that build up in the body. One of the reasons that guided meditation is particularly effective is that you can just relax and enjoy it.