What People say about Jean's Meditation Lessons
Several years ago I trained as a yoga teacher with the aim that I could add yoga postures to my treatment plans of helping people overcome their chronic pain and the way chronic pain impacted on their life.
What I discovered was the greatest change in my life. On the course I gained more knowledge and improved my ability to treat people with stress, with pain and with anxiety. These three ’associates’ have a tremendous influence on your health, happiness and our success in all areas of your life.
Meditation and Breathing Techniques
So what did I learn? On my yoga course I studied, meditation and various breathing techniques that enhanced the clearing of emotional blocks, improving self-belief and releasing traumatic events that my clients needed to get well.
At the same time I was studying Mind, Body Medicine with Professor Satterfield. He told an interesting story of his time as a student, like me he thought the benefits of meditation are much overrated. His then professor suggested that he did three months meditation practice to prove his argument that meditation just wasn’t that effective!
That seemed a good idea to me, so I too did three months of regular ‘simple’ meditation that I’ll be sharing with you. The changes were amazing.
With regular practice the change, difficult to put into words, is a greater acceptance of what is, being calm, taking time to reflect before reacting.
I think my best description is ‘inner peace’
But if you give yourself that three months,
I’d like to hear your description?
After a time the relentless thoughts and reactions can become a pattern, a neural network, consider walking over the grass, always the same place the grass gets worn down and you can see a path through the green, or think of a map and the network of roads.
When just trying to switch off and relax or meditate may not make a difference to you, as if the grass cannot grow back when you keep walking on the path. Your thoughts can get stuck in a similar way changes in the brain called 'neuroplasticity' that creates that well work path for your thoughts and the reactions and behaviour.
If this is happening to you, it can be really helpful to hear explanations about neuroplasticity and your brain. Clients have found once they understand what seem to be 'automatic reactions over which you have no control' suddenly they begin to understand themselves, are empowered being able to make changes to negative thoughts and constant churning in their mind.
