.JPG) Meditation is a state of introspection and thoughtlessness (shunyata). You do not deal with the outside world, but the inner exploration, where emotions, thoughts and feelings occur. Through meditation silence may arise and can work from this silence. Often increased workload caused all kinds of thoughts that the body and spirit stresses These stressful thoughts often cause a negative viscious circle which is difficult to break, especially when the additional stresses for a variety of physical and emotional complaints arises. Meditation is a method to put aside all this stress and reach a different consciousness to approach the situation anew. Meditation can support the emergence of new qualities such as intuition and insight, because there are no thoughts in the way. Some simple meditations as examples.
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Observeren of breathingThe most basic meditation is to draw attention to the breathing. A natural and continuous process in which almost never focused on. By observing their breath, there are fewer thoughts. There are some aspects of breathing can be given: the state of the air, the temperature of the air, the depth of breathing, breathing type (abdomen or chest breathing). When you pointed out that the thoughts weather prevails, then deep breath to the attention back on the breathing.
Walk meditation
One technique that can be deployed virtually anywhere is meditating. When the full attention is drawn to proces of the walking without thinking, for example, about what still needs to be done or what's happened, that is meditation. Be aware of every step taken, on the speed at which you run, the environment in which you run, the temperature, etc. Due to be aware of all aspects of walking in the area, there is no room for thoughts and the spirit to rest. From that calm situations and problems can be approached differently, compared to a situation with a lot of stressful thoughts.
Bodymind
Meditation is included as part of the modern so-called 'bodymind therapies' have been designed for chronic tension in the body. These tensions may arise from the same mechanical movements, such as the muisarm. But emotions can be similar tensions in the body calls. For example, if someone chronically anxious, then took the body often a bad attitude to the shoulders forward, little room for the chest and the head bent forward, out of balance.
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