How does meditation work?
Meditation is a built-in human instinct that allows THE BODY TO HEAL and learn
Our bodies have the ability to get stressed – to activate the fight or flight response. Immediately, our emergency reserves are tapped as our bodies and nerves mobilize for combat. Meditation is the opposite response, in which we enter a state of restfulness that allows the body to repair, recharge, and get back into action, refreshed and renewed.
If you take a deep breath and breathe out slowly, you begin to activate your meditation response. This can happen in seconds. Do it now. That little sense of relief is the beginning.
Even the simplest practices give us the ability to rest more deeply than sleep, allow healing, and emerge refreshed after just a few minutes.
How do I learn to meditate?
Choose a meditation technique that will work for you
The key to letting meditation be something you want to do every day is to let it be deeply restful and therefore renewing and restoring. There is a set of skills for invoking this state of effortless flow, in which your attention is immersed in a loving relationship with the rhythm of life.
There are thousands of meditation techniques, and most of them will be wrong for your body type and life direction. Buddha said that he gave 84,000 dharmas, for all the different kinds of people there are. When you practice a technique that is not right for your type, it feels like an imposition. When you discover your personal gateway, it feels like love.
We offer books, seminars, and individual coaching to help you find and thrive with meditation in your daily life.
