#How to Meditate for Self-Healing

[thecodexworld]

How to Meditate for Self-Healing

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[themindfulmind]

The Many Faces of Meditation: Exploring Its Types and Scientific Backing

Meditation is often painted with a broad brush, as if it’s a single practice. But in reality, meditation encompasses a wide range of techniques, each with its unique focus and benefits. Whether you’re looking to relax, enhance focus, or explore spiritual depths, there’s likely a type of meditation that suits your needs.

Below, we’ll dive into some of the most popular forms of meditation, their specific goals, and the science backing their benefits.

1. Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness meditation is one of the most popular and accessible forms. It involves paying attention to the present moment nonjudgmentally, often focusing on your breath, bodily sensations, or surroundings.

• What It Does: Helps cultivate awareness and reduces mind-wandering.

• Scientific Backing: A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine (2014) found that mindfulness meditation significantly reduces symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain. Moreover, research in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2011) revealed that regular mindfulness practice increases gray matter density in the brain, particularly in areas associated with learning, memory, and emotional regulation.

2. Transcendental Meditation (TM)

TM involves silently repeating a mantra (a word or phrase) to settle the mind into a state of profound rest and relaxation. It’s highly structured and requires training from certified teachers.

• What It Does: Induces a state of restful alertness and reduces stress.

• Scientific Backing: A meta-analysis in Psychosomatic Medicine (2012) showed that TM can lower blood pressure, making it a valuable tool for cardiovascular health. Additionally, TM has been linked to reduced levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) and improved focus.

3. Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta)

This practice centers on generating feelings of love and compassion toward yourself and others. It often involves repeating phrases like, “May I be happy,” “May you be safe,” and extending those wishes to all beings.

• What It Does: Boosts empathy, reduces anger, and enhances feelings of social connection.

• Scientific Backing: A study in Psychological Science (2008) showed that practicing loving-kindness meditation increases positive emotions over time, which in turn builds personal resources like resilience and improved relationships.

4. Body Scan Meditation

A type of mindfulness meditation, this practice involves systematically focusing on different parts of your body, noticing sensations, and releasing tension.

• What It Does: Reduces physical stress and enhances body awareness.

• Scientific Backing: Research in Biological Psychology (2010) suggests that body scan meditation significantly decreases cortisol levels and reduces symptoms of chronic pain.

5. Zen Meditation (Zazen)

Rooted in Buddhist tradition, Zen meditation involves seated meditation, focusing on the breath and observing thoughts as they arise and pass without judgment.

• What It Does: Promotes deep mental clarity and insight.

• Scientific Backing: A study in Frontiers in Psychology (2012) found that long-term Zen meditation practitioners showed increased attentional stability and reduced mind-wandering compared to non-meditators.

6. Yoga Nidra (Guided Sleep Meditation)

Often called “yogic sleep,” Yoga Nidra involves guided meditation designed to bring you into a state of deep relaxation between wakefulness and sleep.

• What It Does: Facilitates stress relief and improves sleep quality.

• Scientific Backing: A study in International Journal of Yoga (2013) found that Yoga Nidra reduces anxiety and improves heart rate variability, a key indicator of stress resilience.

7. Focused Attention Meditation

This practice involves concentrating on a single object, sound, or sensation, like a candle flame, mantra, or the rhythm of your breath.

• What It Does: Builds concentration and reduces mind-wandering.

• Scientific Backing: Research in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2015) highlights that focused attention meditation strengthens the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which plays a key role in decision-making and attention regulation.

8. Movement-Based Meditation (Tai Chi and Qigong)

Unlike still meditation, these involve flowing movements synchronized with the breath.

• What It Does: Combines physical exercise with mental focus, reducing stress and enhancing balance.

• Scientific Backing: Studies in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2014) indicate that Tai Chi and Qigong reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and chronic pain while improving physical health markers like balance and flexibility.

How to Start?

If you’re unsure where to begin, start small. Dedicate 5–10 minutes daily to exploring one practice. Apps like Headspace or Insight Timer can guide you, or you can find countless free resources online.

Meditation isn’t about being perfect or clearing your mind completely; it’s about showing up, being present, and exploring what works for you. As science continues to unravel its benefits, one thing is clear: meditation is a practice that nourishes both the mind and body.

What type of meditation do you practice (or want to try)? Let’s chat in the comments!

Sources

• Goyal, M., et al. (2014). JAMA Internal Medicine.

• Holzel, B. K., et al. (2011). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

• Fredrickson, B. L., et al. (2008). Psychological Science.

• Zeidan, F., et al. (2010). Biological Psychology.

[devilofsamothrace]

Meditation - day 29 of 180

I have been meditating every day for almost a month. My goal is to meditate everyday for half a year. Here is my journey so far.

I started of with only ten minute meditations. Every twentieth day I will increase the meditation length with two minutes and thirty seconds so that by the end of the six months I will reach a total of thirty minutes.

I had a hard time to meditate in the beginning as I was not very used to it. I could not meditate without checking the time and it was hard to let go of throughts. I must admit that it is still very hard to meditate but I have seen some improvements.

The main thing is that I feel much more calm. Before I could get quite stressed with meditating actually. I got stressed by not knowing things, not knowing when time was up or not knowing where the meditation would take me. Now it is easier to calm myself with the knowledge that the meditation is in fact only 12.5 minutes long.

I also find myself to be more in tune with nature. I have always been quite grounded as a person but meditation has made this feeling deeper. I want to be in nature more often and I can see myself as a part of it much more.

The main reason to why I started meditating more seriously was spiritual communication. I figured that meditation would be a great add on to my practice as spirits seem to be a great "asset" in witchcraft. Some things has happened during and since meditation that make me belive that this has also improved. Mainly it is some thoughts that hasn't felt like mine or incoherent sentences when waking up.

It makes me happy to see such an improvement in meditation after only twenty days. Therefore I want to keep this practice going for a really long time and I feel confident that my life will change for the better in terms of my own well being but also in spirit communication and alignment with nature.

[rainbowhearttribe]

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♧

Remember your wholeness within,

Love - Palalika

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[inherpower]

Where is the love?

I have a deep yearning to know and feel God’s love. I’m in an interesting season in my life. There are some relationships that I have upheld as a form of identity for myself and through those relationships I have loved as deeply as I knew how to. All of those relationships have transformed and no longer provide the same sustenance that they once did. I’m being broken down, my sense of identity completely shattered. It’s as if God has inserted himself into my life and decreased my interactions, changed my heart posture so that all I could do was come to Him. In reading 1 John 4:7-21, John tell us that God is love and when we love, we know God.

"We love because he loved us first"  -- 1 John 4:19

But what if you’re view on love and how you were giving and receiving love gets damaged? I find myself having to start fresh and go back to square one, learning what love truly is and is not. I often tell a story of how back at the start of 2020 (before the pandemic hit) I shouted to God at the top of a mountain saying that I am ready to be who HE created me to be. My life utterly broke down after that prayer. In fact I’m still clearing out the rubble as I write this. God stripped me of all perceived safety and security in anything that was not Him. Now I spend a great amount of my time praying and allowing God to rebuild me. This hasn’t been easy. If you are married, a parent, an exalted child, a person of status in your career, imagine that position or title that you hold most dear being adapted into what God desired for you, not the other way around.

One thing I’ve asked God in the past and I’ve heard other people ask is why would God allow for a certain situation and circumstance to happen? God broke it down. Bear with me. At times we get ourselves into situations that weren’t even what God wanted for us in the first place and then we ask why He allowed it to happen. God gave us free will. We made those decisions of our own volition. In fact God loves us so much that He will often send us a messenger telling us hey, that might not be the direction you wanna go in and we may get defensive and push back on that message and say that WE have a right to choose. And if the situation or circumstance that we may be getting into is really bad, God many send a messenger multiple times in many different forms. So why be mad at God? 

Yeah I know it’s a hard pill to swallow but the beauty is that we can come to Him when it all comes down and He will rebuild us and set us on the path that He designed for us. When I asked God to come into my life He cleaned house. All that I had known, believed and stood on was dismantled. Initially I called out to God asking why. Why was I being punished? To make matters worse I had to be silent and not clap back or defend myself when I wanted to. In rare moments when I was crying and pleading to take action He would tell me Do nothing. Say nothing. Let me take care of it. It took some time but He calmed my storms. My conversations with God turned into prayers then they turned into praise. A situation would come along and try to knock me off my square and I started thanking God for His love and protection. I may have been rattled for a bit but I got back to center and grounded myself in God’s love.

So back to what I was initially presenting in regards to my relationships. In each realm of my life (family, friend, self) God has revamped my relationships to show me how loved I am. And for the relationships that still need some work, He has set them aside and is taking care of them on my behalf. While He does that I lean into Him to nourish me. That’s all He’s ever wanted is for me to come to Him so that He can wrap himself around me and remind me that I am loved. There is a verse that has been my beacon of light when it comes to love. When you have a chance read all of Ephesians 3:14-21 but I will share the parts within this larger text that I rest on.

"...that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith - that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."  -- Ephesians 3:16-19 ESV

I’ll come back to this passage in another post and dive deeper into this cause it’s so good. But I want to end here with this and let you meditate on these words.