Class Discussion
FINA 450
My Experience with Meditation:
Chris Cran asked us to give a class presentation and imagine we were talking to a friend about something we found to be interesting. After giving it some
thought, I decided to share my personal experience with meditation, and in
particular youtube meditations, because this has helped me a lot in my life,
and maybe other people will be feelin' it after checking out some of my links.
I like the explanation that "prayer is talking to your
Higher Self," the universe, or whatever people use as a source of
inspiration, and "meditation is listening for the answer", which inevitably
comes, if one is patient, in my experience.
Meditation is a completely personal experience, and
everyone's journey to connect to inner peace looks different. Most people think you have to sit on a
pillow with your legs crossed, and pay attention to your breath. If that works for you, that’s great,
but I think it would make me insane.
Other approaches to "clearing you head" include connecting
with nature, walking, yoga, swimming, walking in labyrinths, deep breathing,
reiki and my personal favorite, guided meditations or visualizations on
youtube!
The benefits of meditation are enormous. From a scientific point of view, it has
been proven that it can change your brain waves, and help them to slow down
from beta, waves "thinking/analyzing etc" to theta and alpha waves,
which I assume will regenerate our energy if we are running on beta for long
periods, or are experiencing stress.
In my experience meditation helps by calming the nervous system, helping
to reconnect with the body, gaining perspective on situations, getting centered
and sleep.
I wanted to share my positive experience with youtube
meditation videos. At first I
thought the whole thing was a little silly, but now I can't live without it!
I did have to try a few different ones, and filter through
lists and check out links that came up, in order to find ones I really liked
and found to be beneficial.
Here are some links to different videos, and I encourage
people to try some of them or search for their own topics:
Chakra Meditations:
Letting go of things, relationships:
Fear and Courage:
Foregiveness:
Positive Thinking/ Clearing Negativity:
Pure Relaxation:
Shamanism:
Other topics Ive explored are mental health, grief, creative
visualizations etc.
Using the word "guided" and "meditation"
before and after the topic is how I look for videos.
The way I would explain it, is that by stilling / slowing
your mind, you can find a place of safety and security, your own "happy
place" like Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore:
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