Have you been meditating for a long time and not seeing the benefits? Perhaps the meditation techniques that are right for you are waiting for you to discover them. In this blog post, we will talk about meditation techniques and help you find the technique that suits you best.
“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger, and it's so healing. We let our own natural healing capacity do the work.”
What are Meditation Techniques?
Focus Meditation
Focusing meditation aims to focus only on an object of your choice, such as your breath, by keeping distance from the thoughts that occupy your mind. In this way, you can get away from the outside world and gain awareness. The main purpose of this meditation is to become familiar with the natural state of the mind and to distance ourselves from our own thoughts. The trick to this meditation is to somehow get your attention back, no matter how distracted you are. Beginners can focus on an object to focus more easily, keep their eyes closed or open, or focus on external factors such as sound.
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation, as the name suggests, is done to increase awareness of the environment, the situation and the breath. This meditation technique allows you to notice what is going on in your daily life as well. For example, if you are speaking, you become aware of the way you speak, the words you use, the tone of your voice, and everything else. Mindfulness meditation is a preferred meditation technique to combat stress and panic attacks.
Loving Kindness Meditation
It is a meditation technique used to develop a sense of empathy, develop self-love and compassion, gain a sense of competence and realize one's purpose in life.
Sound Meditation
It is a meditation technique that focuses on calming ambient music, or ambient sounds without the use of music. With this technique, the mind is calmed and collected. As time passes, the meditator begins to focus on their "inner voice".
Body Scan Meditation
With the effects of the city's crowd, work stress and technology addiction, some people have started to live in auto-mode. With this meditation technique, you can draw your mind stuck in the past or the future into the present. Body scanning meditation helps to relax the central nervous system, support the immune system, improve memory and manage stress.
Compassion Meditation
Thanks to compassion meditation, more positive thoughts begin to be produced in your brain. In this way, you will face the events more positively, you will empathize more easily and you will feel better. Compassion meditation is very useful for solving problems in relationships, healing conflicts between the outer world around you and your inner world. You can choose any of these meditation techniques and do it. You don't have to dwell on just one technique. It's only natural that you can't find the most suitable technique for you on the first try, keep trying until you feel better. Eventually, you will realize the change that meditation has left in you.
