What is meditation and how we do it at Beyond and Above Sessions?
What is meditation and how to go about it? For many people meditation is a tool to achieve inner balance, be more focused and attentive or simply change or alter your state of mind. Meditation has been one of many traditional techniques on different spiritual paths in different cultures. It has been associated with Eastern esotheric and religious practices by the Western Cultures. In the recent decades it has become one of the psychotherapeutic techniques and used ever since. You can practice it independently and in a group. What are the types of meditation? There are many but the ones that are the most popular and known are: - Concentrative meditation - when you focus on a specific object or goal and tuning yourself out of everything else. It is to experience things that you focus on- your breathing pattern, a visualisation, a mantra, or anything else. - Mindfulness meditation - it involves Mindfulness-based stress reduction and Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Mindfu