Meditation & Creativity June 26, 2009
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Meditation is a great way of accessing your inner creative potential. By spending a little time in meditation or deep relaxation, we can quieten the mental chatter that often obscures our creative thoughts. Meditation also helps to open up our inner resources so that flashes of insight and imagination can come bursting through.
When you meditate, there is greater cohesion and co-operation between the left and right hemispheres of our brain. Our right brain is responsible for emotions, images, non-verbal associations and so on, and these functions are often subordinated by a more dominant left brain that handles logic and rational thought. By equalizing the activity of the right and left sides of the brain, meditation can lead to the greater creativity that results from harmonisation of the left and right brain functions.
The more esoteric explanation of why meditation leads to increased creativity is that when we meditate we have access to a universal source of wisdom. This is what Deepak Chopra says about our true creativity : the more we open ourselves to the universal energy, the easier we can access its unlimited creativity.
It doesn’t matter whether you go along with the scientific reasoning, or the mystical explanation, the bottom line is that when we are calmer inside we are more creative. Take up the practice of meditation and bring your hidden creativity into the open.
— Ivor Murray is the MD of Meditations-UK, 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.Meditations-UK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
If meditation is so good for you, why doesn’t everyone do it ? June 19, 2009
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Meditation is one of the most researched ‘alternative ‘ therapies and has been clinically proven to have a wide range of health benefits.
More and more doctors are recommending meditation as an effective stress buster and useful support for patients with many types of chronic and acute conditions
Research studies have shown that meditating for as little as fifteen or twenty minutes a day promotes improved mental and physical health and well-being.
Some of the benefits are :
- Lower blood pressure
- Boosted immune system
- Better sleep patterns
- Less anxiety and depression
- Greater sense of fulfilment
- Better emotional stability
And so the question is :
If meditation is so good for you, why doesn’t everyone do it ?
The problem is that, using traditional techniques, learning meditation is very difficult.
I think the meditation ‘industry’ has shot itself in the foot by making out that learning to meditate is easy.
It isn’t.
In fact, using traditional methods, it’s very, very difficult. It can take many months - and probably years - of disciplined practice before you gain control of your mind and attain meditative states.
That’s why so many people who buy books or go on courses give up with meditation. And that’s a great shame, because as mentioned earlier, relaxed states of body and mind can bring enormous physical and psychological benefits.
I believe that everyone should meditate – not only for their own good, but also because the world would be a much better place if more people spent a little time each day meditating.
If you’ve tried to meditate and given up, or if you would like to learn to meditate but feel that you don’t have the time or patience, I would urge you to look at modern ways of learning to meditate.
Light and sound devices and biofeedback systems can provide a fast track to meditation that is no less valid or effective than more traditional techniques. They’re just a whole lot faster and easier.
On the other hand, of course, you may decide to go the traditional route. And that’s fine as well. We’re all different, and we can all find our own path – if we bother to look for it.
For your own good, and the good of the world, find a method that suits you and put aside a little time for meditation.
— Ivor Murray is the MD of Meditations-UK, 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.Meditations-UK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
Brain awareness week. June 11, 2009
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Did you know that March 16 – 22 was Brain Awareness Week ?
Well it’s a pretty big thing in the USA, but not very publicised over here in the UK.
I’m fascinated about the way our brains work. The human brain weighs about 3 pounds, looks like a cauliflower and many people believe that it’s the most complex organisational structure in the known universe.
Brain Awareness Week gives scientists an opportunity to educate people about the amazing advances in brain research and how you can keep your brain healthy.
For example, you’ve probably know that it’s important to keep your brain active as you get older – the phrase “use it, or lose it” is often applied to mental fitness, just as it is to physical fitness.
But recent brain research indicates that it’s important to learn new activities, rather than just repeating activities you’ve already mastered. Bearing this in mind, if you want to keep your brain alert and functioning in the best possible way, then you should try to engage in activities that :
- Teach you something new
- Are challenging and require your full attention
- Are progressive, so that they start easy but get progressively more difficult.
- Give you a sense of achievement
- Are novel and surprising in some way
It’s not difficult to find activities that meet these criteria. Learning a new language, taking up a musical instrument, trying to juggle, or trying your hand at cryptic crosswords are all examples of activities that fit the bill.
Maintaining a healthy brain requires a little work – but when you think about the alternative, it’s well worth it.
— Ivor Murray is the MD of Meditations-UK, 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.Meditations-UK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
How meditation can help with weight loss June 8, 2009
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How meditation can help with weight loss
It’s strange to think that sitting still in deep relaxation or meditation can help us to lose weight.
When we think of things that will help us with weight loss, we would normally think of changing our diet (so that we don’t consume so many calories) or performing physical exercise (so that we burn off surplus calories).
And of course it’s true that if we eat less and exercise more, we will lose weight. But the important thing to remember is that without the right mental conditioning, our attempts to lose weight will like be doomed to failure.
Meditation can help you to achieve the right mental state that is essential for successful and sustained weight loss. It can do this in a number of ways.
First, meditation can help you to build the discipline that is necessary for you to carry out your exercise programme and stick to your healthy diet. Meditation is like doing mental exercise. And in the same way as when you do physical exercise you become physically stronger, spending time in meditation each day, or even three or four times a week, will help you to become mentally stronger.
Instead of giving in to your urges to eat chocolates and biscuits, you’ll start to have the mental strength to overcome them. Instead of finding excuses to justify not going for a walk or jog, you’ll find reasons to motivate you to do your exercise.
Secondly, meditation can do even more than build mental resolve. Meditation will automatically lead you to a better state of physical and mental well-being and before long, your body will start to regulate itself and naturally aim for a state of optimal health. This means that over time, your desire for unhealthy foods will reduce and physical exercise will become something that you look forward to.
Thirdly, it’s long been known that that positive visualisation can play an important part in reaching any target, such as weight loss, and can help in maintaining a healthy lifestyle to keep the weight off. For example, you can mentally picture yourself at your ideal weight and enjoying your improved physical appearance. Or you can see yourself turning down high-calorie food and choosing healthy food instead.
Visualisation techniques are much more effective when you perform then in a deeply relaxed state of mind. This is because you’ll be programming your subconscious at a deep level which will then steer you towards achieving your desired goal. By changing your mind, it will result in changing your body.
There are many techniques you can use to meditate. However, many traditional meditation techniques can take a long time to master. At Meditations-UK, our Meditation Machines offer a fast track to deep relaxation and meditation that we believe is particularly suited to the fast-paced, stressful lives that many of us lead.
Whichever way you decide to meditate, the regular practice of meditation will play an important part in your weight-loss effort and will lead to a happier, healthier and more fulfilled life.
— Ivor Murray is the MD of Meditations-UK, 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.Meditations-UK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
