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Imagine yourself on a sandy beach on a warm, tropical island.  The sound of lapping waves roar gently in the distance.  A warm, gentle breeze lightly grazes your skin as you take notice of bright yellow birds in flight across the cloud speckled blue sky.  You lay down, close your eyes, take a deep breath and drink in the pure ocean air.  Now, how do you feel?  Perhaps a little lighter and more peaceful?

Quiet Your Mind With Visualization
It’s amazing how a few moments of visualization can instantly calm our minds.  The subconscious is unable to differentiate between fantasy and reality; it believes whatever pictures we draw on the canvas of our minds.  We can literally trick our subconscious into believing a figment of our imagination and elicit specific emotions and feelings about something that actually isn’t true. (more…)

What image comes to mind when you think of meditation?  Perhaps a gentle old man sitting quietly on an ancient Asian mountaintop?  Meditation practice originated centuries ago in the Far East but has become more mainstream in Western culture.  Today, millions of people all over the world practice meditation to relieve a variety of problems in their personal lives and promote a general sense of well-being.

Practicing meditation requires us to dip below our “surface” thoughts and into the realm of the subconscious. Meditation is focusing on the space between your thoughts.  Much like a computer that needs to be defragmented on a regular basis in order to run at its optimal level, meditation is a wonderful tool that gives us a chance to recalibrate our mind, body and spirit.  In effect, meditation helps us to realize our full potential and success as human beings.

There is no right or wrong way to meditate, but there are ways to meditate effectively.
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What image comes to mind when you think of meditation?  Perhaps a gentle old man sitting quietly on an ancient Asian mountaintop?  Meditation practice originated centuries ago in the Far East but has become more mainstream in Western culture.  Today, millions of people all over the world practice meditation to relieve a variety of problems in their personal lives and promote a general sense of well-being. (more…)