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Using Your MindSpa For Chakra Energising June 24, 2010

Many people are becoming aware of the Eastern concept of chakras. Cleaning and energising your chakras is a powerful way of attaining inner peace, improving your health, heightening your spirituality and expanding your consciousness. Your MindSpa can help you with this.

Chakras are energy centres – vibrating forms of cosmic light. We have seven major chakras that radiate out from different points along the spine, forming a vertical axis from the base of the spine to the top of the head. They provide a pathway that can carry us from the individual and personal realms of consciousness to the spiritual universal domains.

Each chakra vibrates at different frequency and is associated with a different colour.The first three chakras are our personal chakras The red root chakra is located at the base of your spine. The sacral chakra is found halfway between your navel and the base of your spine and appears as orange. The solar plexus chakra is bright yellow and is right behind your navel.

The fourth major chakra is the heart chakra located in the centre of the chest. It’s green in colour and represents the beginning of the upper chakras which correspond to universal and spiritual issues.

As it’s name suggests, the blue throat chakra is located in the throat area. The sixth chakra is known as the Third Eye and is in the brow between the two eyes. It radiates with a mixture of indigo and purple light. Finally, at the top of your head is the Crown chakra which is associated with either violet or pure white.

The chakras can profoundly affect your body, mind and spirit. It is through the chakras that these aspects of your being are connected and can be aligned and balanced. If the chakras become blocked, then you may experience sickness and other mental and physical difficulties.

There are many ways that you can ensure that your chakras remain clear and free-flowing with energy. Exercise and a good diet are important for the lower, personal chakras. And living a moral, well-intentioned life will benefit the higher, spiritual chakras. It’s also important to concentrate on positive rather than negative thoughts.

Meditation using your MindSpa is a great way to cleanse, energise and balance your chakras. There are many visualisation and breathing exercises you can do during a session with your MindSpa to revitalise and unblock your chakras. It’s worth finding out more about chakras so that you can benefit from the many physical, mental, emotional and spiritual advantages that they can bring you.

— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.

You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436

Using meditation to help with pain relief June 11, 2010

I’ve had many emails from people who have successfully used meditation to help with pain relief. I thought that this topic might be of interest to people who hadn’t thought of using meditation in this way.

Although meditation for pain relief has been being used for hundreds of years, it is only recently that it has become highly recognized as a great optional way to relieve various kinds of pain. Recent studies have proven that meditation for pain relief is a very powerful way to help relieve pain without the many side effects that are found in other methods such as drugs. Meditation for pain relief teaches the body to relax and to focus on things other than the present pain.

A study at the University of Manchester found that meditators have lower pain sensitivity – both in and out of meditative states – compared to non-meditators.

Dr Christopher Brown who carried out the research said the findings should encourage further research “Although meditators anticipate pain less and find pain less unpleasant, it’s not clear how meditation changes brain functions to produce these effects”.

Avoiding Potentially Harmful Drugs

One of the benefits of using meditation for pain relief is that it can help keep people from having to take pain relieving drugs that may have harmful side-effects. Some pain relief drugs can lead to addiction and can cause long term health problems. Meditation can provide pain relief that will help patients cut back on pain relievers and, in some cases, quit taking them altogether.

Relieves the Body’s Responses to Pain

Meditation for pain relief also has the benefit of relieving the various responses that the body has to pain. When pain occurs in the body, the body usually responds with adrenaline and the “fight or flight” reflex. When you learn to use meditation to relax, the body can help manage these responses and, in turn, help to alleviate the pain.

Turning the Mind from Pain

Meditation works to focus the mind on places and feelings other than what you are feeling at the current moment and this also works to help lessen pain . The feelings of pain are more than physical, they are both emotional and mental. Meditation for pain relief works by taking the mind and focusing it on something other than the of pain within the body. This helps to diminish the perception of pain that is being felt.

Reduction of Anxiety

Many people who suffer from pain have to deal with anxiety and elevated blood pressure as a result of the pain they are suffering. Often, the anxiety can actually increase the pain that they are feeling. Meditation helps to reduce the levels of anxiety and can help to bring down blood pressure as well.

Trying meditation for pain relief is worth a try. Not only can it help you deal with your pain, but it can also increase your health, mental and emotional well-being in many other beneficial ways too.

— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.

You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436

MindSpa and NLP March 23, 2010

One of the reasons for the success of the MindSpa Personal Development System is that it is incredibly popular with the NLP community.

This is partly due to it carrying a very strong endorsement from the co-creator of NLP, Dr Richard Bandler.

Dr Bandler says this about the MindSpa :

“I have devoted 35 years to developing tools to make the human brain more user friendly. I find the MindSpa to be of the most important new tools that can open the doorway to better quality of life.

Let the future be more wonderful! “

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has been variously described as the technology of the mind, the science of achievement, and the study of success. It was developed in the mid-70s by Bandler and John Grinder, a Professor at UC Santa Cruz . NLP is based upon the search for and the study of the factors which account for either success or failure in human performance.

NLP describes, in very precise terms, the images, sounds, and feelings that make up our inner and outer world. How do we know what we know? How do we do what we do? For example, how do you know that a pleasant memory is pleasant? How do you know when to feel scared or happy? How do you know that you like or dislike something? How do you learn a subject easily, or not?

NLP provides us with the equivalent of a user’s manual for our brain – NLP techniques demonstrate how we ‘code’ our experience. When we understand the specific ways that our brains make distinctions, then it is easier to make changes, to learn and to communicate effectively.

With its powerful brain-enhancing programmes, it’s not surprising that many students and masters of NLP use their MindSpas to accelerate the mastery of their minds.

— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.

You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436

Using Your MindSpa with Eyes-Open March 9, 2010

One of the great features of the MindSpa is that as well as using it with your eyes closed for relaxation and meditation, you can also use it with “eyes open” for enhanced concentration.

Being able to use your MindSpa when you’re reading or working at your computer can help to clear your mind of external distractions and enable you to focus on the task at hand.

When MindSpa first introduced their “eyes open” light-glasses, I must admit that I was a little sceptical about the idea. I have fairly sensitive eyes and I didn’t think that I’d like the sensation of having my eyes open while the lights were flickering.

But MindSpa have been very clever in the way they’ve designed the glasses. First, the LEDs are positioned around your eyes so that they are not in your direct line of sight, and secondly, of course, you can control the intensity of the light. I always have the lights set very dim and the result is that I’m hardly aware of the flickering sensation.

To my surprise, I’ve found the “eyes-open” use of the MindSpa to be extremely effective – in fact, I’m using it now to write this article.

I use my MindSpa in this way pretty much every day, particularly in the afternoons when my concentration is beginning to fade. I especially find it useful to use my MindSpa with my eyes open when I need to do something that I’m not that interested in or enthusiastic about – it really does help me to focus and get the job done.

I’ve also got my fifteen years old daughter using it. She was finding it difficult to revise for some important exams recently – she said that she couldn’t keep her attention on the work and kept day-dreaming. So she stared studying with her MindSpa and found that she was able concentrate much more easily on her books.

Studying when your mind is in a more relaxed state has also been shown to improve memory and recall. Maybe it was just coincidence, but my daughter did brilliantly in her exams !

— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.

You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436

Seashore Meditation March 4, 2010

This is an interesting meditation exercise that you can perform while using your MindSpa. It can bring peace, harmony and even clairvoyant visions.

Select one of your favourite relaxation sessions on your MindSpa.

Take some deep breaths and relax. Imagine that you are standing on a beach, with golden, perfectly smooth sand beneath your feet. Your hair is being gently ruffled by a light, refreshing breeze. Look up at the beautiful blue sky, flecked with the odd puff of cloud, and feel the warmth of the sun on your face. Now gaze out at sea – a calm, blue sea that reflects the bright sunlight.

Now relax your concentration slightly and just let whatever is going to happen, happen. The sea may become a little rougher, the wind a little stronger, the sand a little less smooth, or the whole scene may change completely – just allow it to happen. These changes symbolise your near future. Don’t dwell on any one thing for too long, just observe. And don’t worry if you don’t understand what the changes mean, often you will have an insight after the exercise, perhaps later in the day – or maybe in the next few days.

After letting the scene play out for a while, use the power of your imagination to turn the scene back to how it was at the beginning.; the bright sun, the calm sea, the perfect sand, and so on.

This exercise is deceptively simple, but it has deep mystical significance and, if done correctly, will bring a sense of calm and balance. Practiced over time, it will enhance your intuitive awareness and enable you to see the future.

— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.

You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436