Excerpt books, and Margit Dahlke Ruediger: Book of meditation. 138 techniques. Guide for each zodiac sign ,
published by KOS Publishing,
Katowice 2001.
Stress is a major concern of Western man. It reveals nervousness, agitation, muscle spasm and fatigue. Therapists consider it to be the cause of many diseases. As a reaction to external stimuli, we precipitated it with internal balance. All vital bodily functions (digestion, formation and removal of cells) are reduced, intensifying all the functions of stimulants. The body prepares for fight or flight. In some situations it is necessary. With stress-reactions, we have access to many remedies, so you can adequately and effectively respond to external stimuli, then return to equilibrium and peace.
Stress becomes dangerous only when it occurs too often and can not be odreagowany. Preparing the body to fight or flee are meaningless, because neither one nor the other behavior is not socially accepted. If you happen to have a conversation about business is a key us negatively, nothing helps boost eye caller or hasty exit from the room. On the contrary - we pretend that nothing happened, and silently swallow the fear and rage.
At the same time, however, got a shot of adrenaline, the heart beats faster, blood pressure rises - but there is no possibility of release of tension. Stress then becomes a vicious circle and thus eats into us deeper and deeper. Psychologists do not know yet exactly what is happening inside us then. Some, however, are at least two negative results for stress:
- Prolonged stress weakens the immune system. The body is unable to effectively combat the germs of disease.
- psychological stress burden. Fear and anger that nest deep within us, because they are not the mouth.
just so old, "accumulated" stress can be particularly disastrous consequences. It is true that we are not aware of this ballast, and our rational consciousness can not distinguish it from the response to current stimuli, but he still charged our psyche.
Most people create a method by which to cope with the internal layers of stress: they are nieprzekraczalnymi boundaries between themselves and their consciousness. The subconscious is a dumping ground for hazardous waste and is carefully sidestepped. We can operate for some time, but at some point in our run out of landfill space. It is full and old layers of stress wedrą to consciousness in the form of depression or disorders psychosomatic.
separating the soul from the depths of our consciousness, we risk a loss of use of unlimited layers of the positive forces that that's where they are. As a result, we can become unhappy being of impoverished emotional life, unaware of the depths of his psyche, the person who lost the energy necessary for creative and productive activities. The man largely inhibited feelings can still function if he would deny the awareness of any load. Such a man is not able to grow spiritually. The crisis comes when furnished at the bottom of dump fills the soul and frustration stemmed wave penetrates into our consciousness.
There are many ways the abolition of the internal lock, and finding a new access to our interior. Such a goal is a method of psychotherapy: psychoanalysis, Autogenic training, a method of bio-feedback and progressive relaxation.
One of the simplest and at the same time giving the greatest possible method is meditation. Recent research, as well, and millennia of experience, unanimously confirmed by the positive action of various forms of meditation. With its help you can soothe and relax and body, and soul. Meditation should not be seen as a protection against the stress that attacks us from outside, but as an opportunity to eliminate barriers between different spheres of our consciousness. Being in a state of deep relaxation, we are able to rid themselves of old stress and open up for the new trust.
All this is a special form of meditation. By partial or completely "empty awareness" our soul open to new experiences. Contrary to psychoanalysis and programs for relaxation, meditation does not require valuations and objectives. quite free, we can embark on a journey of discovery for its own interior. We do not want anything to achieve, we accept what is happening . Our soul can appreciate this freedom. unforced manner in our internal reflector emerges from the darkness of forgotten areas of the psyche. Not limited view of some particular purpose, we can achieve anything.
Psychologists have studied the processes occurring in our meditation, when studying the subconscious mind, get rid of stress. As the lift descend into the unknown depths of the psyche before we begin the work and what they hid. Negative feelings, fear, anger, hatred and mistrust are discovered, accepted, and thus neutralized, positive emotions, love, trust and happiness are being strengthened and developed. United moments of relaxation and exploring the depths of our psyche content follow each other irregularly and spontaneously. It is with this mechanism, meditation it is not tiring. Open to change and able to accept, we perform some work in the very core of human existence. Hence, the effects of this work are visible in many spheres of our lives. Body and soul feel her beneficent influence. Getting to know ourselves better, and on this basis we can develop the skills of positive communication with others.
who accepts himself, is also able to accept others. Who knows himself, is less influenced from the outside and thus easily finds its way to fulfillment. Psychologists Schwabisch Lutz and Martin Siems see this as the "best anti-totalitarian and inhumane political phenomena. "In the book" Developing through meditation, "explains:" Any opposition to the encroaching world of neurosis is an active opposition to the inhumane effects of social, political and legal ".
Proven scientific impact study was conducted only for meditation transcendental meditation ( TM), Christian meditation, Zen and yoga. Most scientists believe however, that these effects are typical for meditation and appear in each of its types. Most frequently listed as follows types of interactions:
result of regular exercise of meditation is a feeling of deep relaxation, peace and mental balance. Meditating to get rid of the constant feeling that we must be chasing something or something to avoid. External stimuli are not borne by us so badly, there are fewer stress reactions. Despite the achievement of peace, increasing our ability to concentrate and ready for adequate response.
Meditation leads to greater self-acceptance, greater self-confidence, better self-knowledge, and thus to improve their self-realization. From this the result: greater autonomy, independence, ability to take risk and greater tolerance of others.
Meditation has a clear positive, stabilizing influence on our mood. We are full of quiet, cheerful and happy. It is easier to recognize and control the emotional states.
are increasing our capacity and physical and mental, activates our intelligence and creativity. Studies have shown that meditation has a positive effect on memory and learning ability; easy to solve arithmetic tasks, increases physical performance, anxiety disappears.
Doctors have found that meditation can also "cure" us of hypertension and insomnia. Meditation drastically inhibits the drug. Research conducted in the U.S. among pupils TM have shown that meditation practice leads to easing or complete disappearance of symptoms following conditions: stomach ulcers , asthma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, allergies, migraines, acne, obesity and stress. Since we know that life in continuing stress involves a weakening of the immune system, for us is also clear that reducing stress, meditation also reduces susceptibility to infection.
These positive effects of meditation can be experienced only under certain conditions - if they are not to practice. Meditation relaxes and uzdrawiająco only when we experience it as unconstrained and have not set myself any goal. Our body and soul they know better than our rational consciousness, how to get rid of stress and anxiety. Whoever meditates, must have confidence in themselves and try to liberate themselves from the constraints of the daily race for any particular purpose. We should accept all thoughts, feelings and fantasies that arise during meditation, not evaluative commenting on them or not, without analyzing or comparing with previous experiences. This would reduce or even ruined the chance for positive effects of meditation.
Most beginners of meditation, particular difficulty is the acceptance of adverse reactions and consider them as part of their personality. It is true Meditation should give joy, by no means suffering, however, stress release, pushed into the subconscious can be accompanied by alarming symptoms: increased body temperature, sweating, muscle spasms or convulsions. These are not dangerous phenomena of the elimination of physical tension, which eventually resolved itself.
Similarly, headache, fatigue and a sense of packing the body in wool - these feelings are accompanied by relaxation of the mental and physical tension. The appearance of these symptoms at the beginning of meditation is a cause for concern. Nervousness, irritability, and itching of the skin are symptoms of long-standing release of aggression. They may also experience pain in old scars. This is because in meditation we experience pain consciously (by freeing herself from him), pain still present in the subconscious, where it has been displaced during the operation carried out under general anesthesia. Symptoms of pain can persist for several hours or days. Also the trigger during meditation feelings of anxiety, sadness, loneliness, anger and depression be charged at the moment our consciousness. Therefore we should not be afraid, because I only meet these emotional states, we can liberate them. Based on them, or fleeing from them, we record them.
These symptoms occur in only a few exceptional cases. We should interpret it as a positive phenomenon, because they are evidence of the exploitation to light the hidden realms of our consciousness. He who can not accept the contents of his subconscious, he loses a chance to self-fulfillment and development.
In a few cases is indicated for the selection of another meditation. Like any method works differently, so there are different individual reactions. Some prefer hard and quickly get rid of stress, others feel better, giving a delicate and slow soul cleansing treatment. The choice of this road must be our own decision. Any form of meditation is not necessarily better or worse than others, however, should be carefully matched to the personality of the practitioner.
Properly practiced meditation never become dangerous. It is harmoniously integrated with the needs of body and soul. Risky is only when we apply it to achieve selfish purposes. Who in meditation looking for an escape from their daily responsibilities, can lose touch with reality. Who is trying to use meditation as a tool of power, runs the risk of incurring damage.
