Meditate for Mental Calmness and Strength

The mind has two levels: the conscious mind and the subconscious mind.

● The conscious mind perceives everything through your senses. It stores emotions, feelings, thoughts, and memories that you are aware of.

● The subconscious mind is a reservoir of thoughts, feelings, and memories beyond the conscious mind. It acknowledges unpleasant experiences such as stress, anxiety, and pain. It regulates vital body functions and works independently of the conscious mind.

The subconscious mind is like a bed of soil that absorbs all kinds of ideas that you feed your mind and sleep with. If you nurture good and positive thoughts, your subconscious mind will follow and react to the good. To keep your subconscious mind calm and to stimulate healthy thoughts in your mind, try meditation. Meditation practice involves sitting in a quiet place, observing your breathing pattern and sensations, and letting go of all the unwanted thoughts. This practice helps you develop concentration towards the body and soul, which leads you toward a state of equanimity.

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Different Types of Meditation That You Can Practice

Every meditation practice involves a different technique but helps you reach the shared goal of achieving peaceful and wholesome physical and mental health.

1) Mantra Meditation: It is a practice where the practitioner chants a mantra and meditates on it. The mantra has spiritual powers, and chanting it brings inner harmony.

2) Kundalini Meditation: Kundalini meditation is practiced to activate dormant energies. The practice uses breathing, visualisation, and emphasis on chakras to experience physical and mental bliss.

3) Nada Meditation: Nada meditation is practiced with the help of music or sound. This meditation practice aims to help the practitioner listen to internal sounds.

4) Third Eye Meditation: A meditation practice that involves focusing on the third eye, the space between the eyebrows to activate and harmonise the Ajna chakra that helps in the expansion of awareness and spiritual communication.

5) Chakra Meditation: Chakra meditation is performed by concentrating on the energy points located in the body known as chakras. While concentrating, the practitioner recites the beej mantra associated with the chakra to remove the blockages in the energy centres.

6) Transcendental Meditation: A meditation that is practiced by uttering a sound or mantra for stress relief and to transcend into a state of absolute relaxation.

7) Mindfulness Meditation: A meditative practice that focuses on physical and mental well-being while having a profound positive effect on the practitioner.

8) Metta Meditation: The word “Metta” means loving; hence, it is also known as loving-kindness meditation. This meditation teaches the practitioner to be loving and kind towards oneself and others.

9) Vipassana Meditation: A Buddhist meditative practice of developing awareness of the self and living in the present moment.

Daily practice of any of these meditation techniques will reprogram your subconscious mind enabling it to store and retrieve positive thoughts and enhance its overall functioning leading to holistic well-being.

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