How to practice guided meditation?
Guided meditation usually begins with relaxing the body, using music with Hertz waves suitable for meditation. Then we start with the exercise of calming the body parts, and we may use methods that combine positive and graphic metaphors to fully enter into focus and reach the state of mental meditation in the mind.
For example, the term may symbolize the path to a path that we must take, and the steps we are talking about in guided meditation may symbolize the steps of entering the subconscious, and we may also work on the question that causes you to raise awareness of your answer.
In a guided meditation exercise, we go through several stages, including:
1) Relax
For the most part, the practice of meditation begins with physical relaxation along with breathing, as we slowly shift focus to another part of the body, with the intention of calming down and lowering the rate of brain wave activity. When the brain and body slow down permanent activity, it makes it easier for us to use the imagination, and it makes it easier for the brain to obtain what we choose to deliver to it ... and many studies have shown that reaching this mode of physical relaxation is completely sufficient to reduce stress and anxiety, boost the immune system, and raise The ability to focus and balance electrical activity in the brain.
2) Breathing training
Breathing is one of the most powerful rules of guided meditation because of its effect on the body and mind. It may seem strange to you, but it happens in everyday life when we forget to breathe. And you might have noticed that sometimes we suddenly take a deep breath, which comes from the lack of air.
We think stress and stress is the main culprit (how often do you say "I don't have time to breathe") but anger, fear, shock or anything that damages our confidence and self-image can reduce our breathing room.
The best way to breathe when meditating is to fill your lower abdomen. Yoga experts claim that this is normal breathing, while breathing into the lungs fuels the flow of constant thoughts, and breathing into the stomach - tied to where the mental calm we seek, which is, in fact, our normal breathing.
Inhalation and exhalation also helps calm the body, slowing the heart rate and brain waves, and helps a lot in allowing focus.
It injects oxygen into the body, which contributes to the circulatory flow of energy, which acts as a channel between the body and the mind, and stimulates the secretion of hormones such as dopamine and serotanin.
Since energy can be shaped through thoughts and emotions, we can imagine that with each inhale we enter the "new" energy and purification, and eliminate the "used" energy that is no longer serving us by exhalation.
3) Raise awareness
A change can happen in a single moment or it may take a long time, but after several times of making the change, we will find that after a period of time we return to our old habits or previous situation, because we did not make the change right.
We can operate and remove the growth but not its causes; We can lose weight or persistence for a while without smoking, but many times this habit can return to our lives because we have not grasped the fact that everything is under our control and responsibility, nor have we promoted the change in the level of cellular functioning or the unconscious mind.
Implementing change is a process built on different layers: training and repetition, strengthening of internal resources, with the realization that we are responsible for what happens in our lives, acceptance of the given position, focus on the present and more.
For example, guided meditation for emotional eating includes daily training to bring about change that includes all components of change as we see it in the present and in the future, and it may take several weeks to reach awareness, but we finish guided meditation with the ability to understand the causes of the status quo and then daily training to modify our vision.
4) Investigation
The wisdom behind all of this is to release the feeling of inferiority or the absence of what we desire today in our life and to focus only on what we want to achieve and how we can achieve it.
The best way to do this is to practice daily guided meditation out of the pleasure of the experience itself and the daily enjoyment of that experience in this life.
In other words, if you whine, you will not be able to attract the imagination for what you ask for. If you can bring yourself to a state where you enjoy the feeling of abundance or contentment and happiness in your imagination, to the moment you are in now, this is the moment when you will release resistance, and whatever you want to reach, according to the laws of the universe.