What is meditation?
It’s the process of training your mind to focus.
You don’t silence your mind, you observe your thoughts and in the process your mind stills itself once you’ve observed the thoughts long enough.
The different types of meditation:
1. Visualisation
2. Mindfulness Meditation
3. Movement Meditation
4. Walking Meditation
5. Mantra Meditation
6. Guided Meditation
7. Sound Healing
8. Focused Meditation
9. Body Scan Meditation
10. Loving Kindness Meditation
11. Skilful Compassion
12. Reflection Meditation
1. VISUALIZATION
This meditation uses your third eye/imagination. Visualise a person or something in your mind, which will be your focus for the meditation. Focus on the sensations you feel and if you’re trying to manifest, evoke the emotions you’d feel if you had it.
2. MINDFULNESS
You’re essentially teaching yourself to live in the moment instead of being depressed over what’s happened or anxious of what’s to come. Take deep breaths and focus on your breathing plus the sensations that your body is feeling.
Notice how every breath feels as it goes in and out of your body.
3. MOVEMENT MEDITATION
Cleaning, dancing, running and yoga are all part of movement meditation. Focus on what you’re doing and take slow breaths throughout to make your brain focus on the now,
4. WALKING MEDITATION
As the name says, you’re mindful do your steps and can say a mantra with every step (I am protected, I am blessed, etc). Close your eyes and feel the sensations as you walk & where plus how your feet touch the ground
5. MANTRA MEDITATION
This is similar to focused meditation but you focus on one mantra throughout the meditation. You can sit crossed leg or lie down and repeat the mantra over and over as you take deep breaths. The vibrations associated with the mantra influence your aura.
6. GUIDED MEDITATION
A teacher guided you through steps in person or via an app/video. This type of meditation is very useful for beginners
7. SOUND HEALING
This uses bowls, gongs, drums and other instruments to create vibrations that help your mind focus and relax.
8. FOCUSED MEDITATION
This form uses our breath as our focal point, to help ground us and anchor our minds. Count 3 breathes in, then exhale 3 out etc. If your mind starts wandering, focus on counting the breaths again.
9. BODY SCAN MEDITATION
Often times our minds and bodies aren’t doing the same thing. This technique helps to sync both. You scan your body from head to toe and take note of any discomfort, sensations, aches and tension.
10. LOVING KINDNESS MEDITATION
You focus on the images of different people and send good energy plus positive vibrations their way. You first need to focus on yourself and send these to you then it’ll ripple effect out to the others.
11. SKILLFUL MEDITATION
This involves focusing on a person you love and paying attention to the sensations that come up in your heart. By opening your heart to them, you harvest love and happiness for yourself also.
12. REFLECTION MEDITATION
You ask yourself questions in the first person and allow your intuition plus Divine the opportunity to answer you.
What am I grateful for today?
How can I love myself more?
What did my last heartbreak teach me?
13. CHAKRA MEDITATION
This helps to open up and balance the 7 main chakras in our bodies plus clarify our auras.