Beyond and Above Meditation

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...

Power sometimes stems from little things like understanding your limited time here and how good it is to use this time for something you will never regret, it's a daily practice to remind yourself about it through being attentive.

During the past two decades, more and more scientists have studied mindfulness—a collection of practices aimed at helping us to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of ourselves and our environment. Their early findings triggered an enormous amount of enthusiasm for meditation. Sometimes, however, journalists and even scientists (who should know better) have overstated the physical and mental health benefits, which has fed growing skepticism about mindfulness. Indeed, the science behind mindfulness meditation has often suffered from poor research designs and small effect sizes, as 15 psychologists and neuroscientists found after reviewing hundreds of mindfulness studies. Their paper, published by Perspectives on Psychological Science, argues that there is still much we don’t understand about mindfulness and meditation. Worse, many scientists and practitioners don’t even agree on the definition of those words. They end the paper calling for “truth in advertising by cont...

Welcome to our blog and our meditation and mindfullnes classes. We operate in Hitchin, currently taking appointments for regular meditation and mindfulness classes at Hicca Gallery. Please enquire at the gallery or directly beyondandabovemeditation@gmail.com