Meditation Timer - Water - Bells - Alpha

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Meditation Timer with Water/Alpha Frequencies

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Simple Meditation Technique

• Find a comfortable sitting position. Turn on the CD. Gently close your eyes when you hear the initial bell sound (or "boing" as we lovingly call it).
• Take slow, full breaths, filling the lungs from the bottom while pushing out with the diaphragm, then fill the top part slightly raising your shoulders. Take each breath in slowly through the nose and let it out with gently puckered lips. Repeat 5 to 10 times.
• On the last breath mentally say the word "relax" and breath naturally.
• Put your attention on the breath. Don't try to control it, just use it as a focal point of your attention.
• Many find it helpful to pay attention to the sensation of the air flowing in and out of your nostrils.
• As you do this you'll find thoughts coming into your mind. If fact, you'll realize that you've forgotten about watching the breath completely. This is natural and a part of the process. When you realize this has happened simply bring your attention back to the breath.
• The idea is to watch the thoughts go by without getting attached to them like a spectator watching boats on a river from the bank. When you realize you've jumped on another "thought" just let go and continue observing.The point is not to stop the thoughts, but to practice letting go of them.
• Mentally watch your breath this way for the remainder of the time on the CD.
• When you hear the ending bell tones (or "boing") take a deep breath and slowly open your eyes.
• I recommend practicing twice daily for 20 min. each session - once in the morning and in the afternoon.

Should you mediate? This scientific research may lead you to answer in a resounding YES! • Ohio State University study examines office workers who spend 20 minutes daily in mindfulness meditation and yoga: After just six weeks participants are more aware of external stressors, less stressed by life events, and falling asleep more easily at night. • UCLA study uses MRIs to scan brains of people who meditate: Regions in the brain linked to emotions are found to be larger in long-term meditators than in control group, giving meditators “outstanding ability to regulate their emotions and allow for well-adjusted responses to whatever life throws their way.” • UCLA study focuses on children diagnosed with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who practice transcendental meditation twice daily in school: At the end of three months, reduced levels of stress, anxiety, and ADHD symptoms are reported among participants. • A follow-up study of ADHD sufferers measures brain wave activity during problem-solving activities: Meditators showed broader activation of the brain’s prefrontal cortex, the seat of executive function, than nonmeditators. • Mindfulness meditation study tracks results in HIV-positive patients suffering stress: Mindfulness meditation stress-management training is shown to slow disease progression in HIV-positive adults.

Alpha Frequencies and Brainwave Entrainment

Using brainwave entrainment, you can coax your brainwaves to a certain frequency, and in doing so, achieve the mental state associated with that frequency. Alpha frequencies are associated with calm, relaxed, unfocused (not concentrating), lucid mental states, non-drowsy but relaxed, tranquil state of consciousness, primarily with pleasant inward awareness; body/mind integration. ; Amplifies dowsing, empty-mind states, detachment, daydreams, mind/body integration.

I use a technology that I've found to be quite effective called Isochronic Tones. They do not require headphones like other technologies (Binaural) used by Holosync, etc.