Buddhist meditation

The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training program (MBSR) was my next intervention as I needed to reduce my stress level. One feels stress when external demands are higher than he can handle. And personal beliefs such as self-efficacy are necessary to evaluate whether those demands are threatening or challenging (Zajacova, Lynch, Espenshade, Sep, & Espenshadet, 2012). This is how I felt with my 19-year old son, mainly due to his alcohol and drug usage. At the beginning of the semester,…

do it or have done it, and they have nothing but good things to say. I also like the fact that it not only benefits to my state of mind, but also my physical body. I want to try a technique that involves some physical movement. An activity like meditation that requires complete stillness does not really appeal to me. I will be practicing yoga for thirty minutes three times a week. I intend to practice yoga at night, before I go to bed, with the expectations…

Subcontinent. They spread rapidly but Buddhism died away quickly but is still around today. 2 of the 5 most popular religions are actually more alike than you think. Buddhist and Hindus may seem like they live completely different lifestyles, but there are some ways that they are alike. When they worship, they both worship in temples, but buddhists don't reply on gods so they only pray on their free time to get closer to Buddha. They also originated in the Indian subcontinent. The religions…

- Purpose, Treatment techniques, Preparation, Typical results - Patient, Therapist, Patients, and Disorders - JRank Articles," 2016). It’s an “eight week therapy course,” which follows with at “home activities” to teach individual’s “mindfulness meditation” ("Cognitive Therapy - Purpose, Treatment techniques, Preparation, Typical results - Patient, Therapist, Patients, and Disorders - JRank Articles," 2016). This technique…

Reiki is a complementary health approach to promote healing through stress reduction and relaxation. It is administered through a series of hand positions held on or above a patient’s body to help balance life and force energy through their bodies to help facilitate the patient’s own bodily healing response (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, (NCCIH), 2015). This allows the body’s ability to heal and restore homeostasis through self-regulating mechanisms that maintain…

The current literature suggests that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) regulates the areas of the brain implicated on self-regulation and self-directed attention and behavior1. The activation of such areas of the brain contributes reducing stress during the emotion regulation, improving anxiety and mood symptoms in Depression and Anxiety Disorders2. A key aspect in these disorders is the rumination and the focus on the future and the personal worries, keeping the person away from the…

For thirty minutes, I sat down in my computer chair in my room and tried to relax as much as possible. I turned off my phone, all of the lights, and made sure that I was going to be uninterrupted for the allotted time that I would be trying this out. Once I got comfortable, sitting up right, I began focusing on how I was going to meditate. I had never done this before; and maybe the closest thing that I have ever got to meditating was daydreaming. So that is what I began doing. I started…

Yoga is seen by many as a low impact exercise consisting of stretching with different pose positions held of a specific time, while controlling your breathing. By some it is seen as part of their religion. The religion that practice yoga is Hinduism. In Hinduism there are several types of yoga. The 3 yoga’s that I will be writing about in this paper are Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga. The first yoga I have chosen is Karma Yoga. Karma is usually looked at as something bad but in yoga it…

A beautiful quote to solidify messages shared during the first natural energy center or root chakra series. The root chakra (muladhara) is about getting in touch with your body and self care needs. By listening to the wisdom of your body and hearing what it is whispering or SCREAMING at you, you can unblock the energy in this core center and allow yourself to operate at a higher level. Taking care of our physical body and being aware of what it is telling us, allows us to connect with not only…

The personal experiment I tested out this week was the meditating for five minutes. We did this in class on thursday and we just sat there for five minutes trying to not think about anything. It worked for me, all I did was clear my head and just focus on how I was breathing. My breathing pattern was weird, I would breathe in for two seconds then I would breathe out. It’s funny because if you think about you’re the one controlling your breaths and you decide if you want to breathe or not like…