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- 1. WEEK 2…THE POWER OF MEDITATION JOAN MARLOW PEACEFUL EASY HEALING Meditation Workshop
- 2. • Right & Left Hemispheres • Reptilian Brain = Automatic responses (eating, breathing) • Limbic Brain = Emotional brain • Amygdala = Guard Dog • Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) = Wise Old Owl
- 3. Thoughts on Meditation… ‘being present is (somewhat simply) learning to attend to your sensory experiences as anchors’ Harvard University’s Dr. Herbert Benson, a father of western meditation ‘… as the moment you are aware that your mind has been on an excursion elsewhere’ Spiritual teacher, Eckert Tolle, sees presence…
- 4. More Thoughts on Meditation.. By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind The term "meditation" can refer to any process that leads you to an inner state of relaxed awareness.
- 5. What we know for sure…. there is no “succeeding” in meditation…. If we are entering into meditation to “do it right,” we are already beginning on a false platform Any decrease in mind clutter is an increase in our vibration On a practical, earthly level, we want to quiet our minds because it is those extra words spinning around that distract us, pull our energy down, allow us to worry and brood, encourage us to imagine potential negative situations and obsess over relationship details, and cause us to self-doubt … What if all that energy was put to a better use? On a spiritual plane, we want to quiet our minds because it is in those moments of quiet when we are able to better receive guidance and answers to our questions and to feel supported and loved by God and the universe What have you gained from meditation???
- 6. Joan’s Reflections… Be an observer in your own life… Figure out what you can control and what you can’t…know the difference and act accordingly Where the mind goes, the body follows.. B-R-E-A-T-H-E…..
- 7. Lessons Learned… The healing happens in the return.. It’s in the gracefulness of letting go and starting over The seeking is endless…meditation can help you stop searching for happiness and have you be happy in the moment.
- 8. Kali
- 9. Guess who wears the pants in the family?
- 10. Kali and yoga…
- 11. Kali knows how to relax…
- 12. Kali after a Reiki session
- 13. Step 1…Grooming
- 14. Step 2…Getting into the Zone…
- 16. You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
- 17. New Meditation/Relaxation Practices Alternate Nostril Breathing aka Channel Cleaning Breathing Breath/Straw Meditation Progressive Muscle Relaxation Relaxation Meditation
Editor's Notes
- Start the class with ‘ha’ exercise to clear the way for learning…4-5 x
- Two Hemispheres of the Brain Left: linear, logical, and language-based thinking…this side specializes in understanding right from wrong and cause and effect. Right: more visceral and is responsible for holistic, nonlinear thinking..it specializes in intense emotions, visual and spatial info..sending and receiving nonverbal signals, and giving us a sense of ourselves and others Stone Age’ or reptilian brain manages our automatic responses such as eating and breathing. ‘emotional’ or limbic brain is responsible for generating emotions and turning on and off our stress responses…Deep inside the limbic brain is the amygdala…which acts as a Guard Dog at the gates of the brain. Its function evolved over millions of years, from the time of the saber-toothed tigers when we had to make decisions on whether to fight, take flight, or freeze.. As the amygdala filters incoming information, it decides if it represents a threat or not. Once it determines that a threat is imminent, it will fire up and release stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol, which unleash the symptoms of fear and anxiety. These hormones are toxic and can stay in the body for several days. The amygdala also releases glucose to our muscles in prep for action. If, however, the amygdala reads incoming info as pleasurable or safe, it will relax and open a kind of floodgate that allows data to move on up the other next level, the prefrontal cortex, where most critical thinking occurs. prefrontal cortex is like a Wise Old Owl that observes, analyzes, and remembers info. It is in charge of the executive functions—thinking, planning, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and impulse control. It controls most of what we think of as intelligence.
- What have you observed over the past week regarding what triggers your stress? What are your stressors? Are they the same stressors that you thought were affecting you before we talked about being aware? Can you now tell when stress is on the rise? Can you nip it in the bud before it goes into full-blown stress? Where in your body are you feeling ‘stress?’ How did you handle ‘stress’ before we started talking about relaxation/meditation processes?
- Have you discovered what you can control and what you can’t and have you..or are you working on acknowledging the difference and attempting to act accordingly? Four steps of healing…Awareness, acknowldegment, acceptance, action…
- Stuff that I’ve learned in listening to the Hay House World Summit interviews..week of June 1-10, 2013…
- It was once believed that the brain was shaped for life in childhood in a process called neurogenesis and that the adult brain could not grow new neural pathways of brain cells…The brain may stop growing by our midtwenties, but we now know that neurogenesis still occurs in the brain well into our seventies and beyond. It’s been found that environmental enrichment helps neurogenesis…learning enhances neurogenesis and stress inhibits it. Called neuroplasticity, this phenomenon means that we can change the structure of our adult brains and even our behavior at whatever age we are just by intentionally focusing our attention!! Injured brains can adapt by mapping out new neural pathways and so consciousness exercises..like meditation, breathing, gratitude journals can also induce significant changes in patters of functional activity of the brain.
- When the mind wanders…that’s what the mind is designed to do…a mind never goes blank…do the beginnner’s breathing meditation. Share update on what I learned from Joan Borysenko…teach meditation to move energy to left PFC Talk about changing the brain..when we feel we’re going negative/or pessimistic, we can do a short meditation toset the wheels in motion to release healthy ‘gaba’ neurons from the left side of the PFC…a bit left of the 3rd eye…the left side stresses happiness and resilience..this exercise inhbits fear and gets the wise mind back on track. Breathe 4-6 times per minute…deep breath through the nose and then let it out through pursed lips (as if you were sipping from a straw)…next breath will be a bit deeper and the exhale will take a bit longer, etc….do this for 1-2 minutes and it will calm you down.