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Customize Your Meditation

10/16/2019

 
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How can you see results from your meditation practice more quickly? Start with the type of meditation for your goals.

When people ask how I teach meditation, I explain to them my very results driven approach to meditation.

In private meditation consultations, or My Meditation as I refer to it, I choose the mediation that is aligned with the client's goals. Meditation is not a one size fits all prescription - I want clients to see results, so we use the meditation suited to their needs.

To encourage your home practice, here are three types of meditation I use most often.
  • To improve sleep, cognitive function, lessen anxiety, and to clear the mind:
I teach clients to use Focus Meditation. In this form of meditation, I ask clients to focus their mental attention of specific parts of their body, sounds, or sensations. The demand of focusing your attention and senses on a particular point easily clears the mind of thoughts. And, although it may be difficult in the beginning, it allows the brain to deeply rest.
  • To increase calm, mental stamina, and emotional self-intimacy Observational Meditation is most beneficial. 
In this form of meditation, I ask clients to simply watch their thoughts, emotions, body, or experiences. I frequently use the analogy of observing your life from a helicopter or watching your thoughts as a third party. This type of meditation allows you to give up judgement and begin to observe aspects of the present you haven’t noticed. By stepping back you often receive intuitive hits on next steps or the direction to move toward. This type of meditation also helps to grow your attention span and is great for students.
  • For clients that desire to strengthen their mental faculties and are seeking to reduce blood pressure or recover from PTSD:
I use Mantra Meditations to open access to the quiet knowing, creative space within each of us. Here is where you solve the problems that seem tangled and access new ideas.

Frequently these approaches are interwoven in a session with others added to produce the type of transformation available through meditation. I encourage you to think of your goals for your practice and experiment with the types of meditation most suited to helping you get there.

If you’d like help, book a My Meditation session.
Love,
Julia
xo
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P.S. The various forms of meditation each stimulate different parts of the brain. For this reason, they yield different results.
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What’s Your Health Belief?

10/9/2019

 
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I firmly believe our health is heavily influenced by our beliefs.  Science now is backing this up with study results which show how repeated thoughts affect our behavior and cell health.  Also studies have shown the power of mantra. When we tell ourselves something over and over it can shift our behavior, habits, and choices.

For example, a friend of mine used to be addicted to ice cream.  To break the addiction, each day she would visualize herself eating ice cream and feeling terrible afterwards.  Over time, this meditation built an aversion to ice cream within her. Likewise, the placebo effect can increase efficacy of treatments and overall health outcomes - a person thinks something will help her and it does just because of the thought. 

What we believe determines what we think is possible, our habits, and our choices. But many of our beliefs are under the surface and we operate not being aware of them. However, if we listen to our thoughts and self talk they will reveal our underlying beliefs.

You will learn rather or not you expect health or illness.  Eavesdropping on yourself will reveal if you are at peace with your body or feel alienated and disconnect from it. What you hear is affecting you on the level of cell health - the essence of wellbeing.

If you discover a belief that is negatively impacting your health, how do you change your beliefs? 

In order to replace or reverse it we first recognize the belief.  Do you expect to be stressed? Do you think your health is delicate? Do you expect to recover quickly when sick?  Do you think you are undeserving of health or feeling great? Do you think you will always feel bloated and uncomfortable? Do you think you are bound to experience a particular disease?

You bring the beliefs to the light. Then, replace the belief with something more aligned to the outcome you want. This process of replacement is gradual, but will work.  For example, for a while I had orthorexia. I thought some foods would instantly make me fat and feel terrible. Each time that came up, birthday cake for example, I would tell myself, “My body knows exactly what to do with this food and can use it up quickly.” Over time, I was able to occasionally partake in certain foods without the expectation that they would instantly derail my health gains.  

Core beliefs I continually reinforce are: I deserve health and energy all day; I eat so my body heals itself; and aging is not inevitable.  

These beliefs I repeat to myself.  This way I expect well being and make choices which support health. It creates habits of choosing food for how they will assist my body in feeling great, When I am sick, rather or not it requires medication, I tell myself that my body is already healing itself.  The positive thoughts, help me to heal faster.  

Using your beliefs for your health is one of the most powerful wellness tools you have.  it is effective, free, and accessible.




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    I am not a heroine, but I have chosen the person I want to be.
    ​Coco Chanel

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