Finding the Right Meditation Type for Yourself

With Focus on Loving Kindness Meditation

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Most people make use of meditation as it helps them to relax amidst the stressful world. It also helps to heighten awareness. But meditation goes beyond.

Professionals, including spiritual leaders, educators, and even mental health experts have developed a dozen types of meditation.

“So there is some type of meditation that suits every individual that aids in improving physical and emotional health. Meditation helps you to free yourself from anxiety, depression, pain, and stress and helps you gain focus, creativity, memory, compassion and productivity.”

-Dr. Ved at Sanjeevani Kaya Shodhan Sansthan.

He further expresses that there is no right way or formula. People should try all and settle for the one that helps them. Meditation types can further be divided into sub-types and you can choose the right one, or blend two and design the right one for your need.

• Loving-kindness meditation
• Mindfulness meditation
• Breath awareness meditation
• Body scan or progressive relaxation
• Kundalini yoga
• Zen meditation
• Transcendental Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation

Loving-kindness meditation, also known as Metta meditation, helps to cultivate a loving-kindness attitude toward everything. This even extends to enemies and sources of stress.

How is it done?

Patients take deep breaths and as they do, they open their minds to receive loving-kindness. But they go a step beyond and can send the messages of loving-kindness to the world, to their family members and loved ones, or specific people. Loving-kindness messages are repeated several times until the people practicing them begin to feel them. The loving-kindness meditation helps to spread the feeling of compassion and love towards oneself and others.

Who can avail of it?

People who suffer from:

• Anger
• Resentment
• Frustration
• Interpersonal Conflict
• It reduces depression as it increases positive emotions
• It helps those suffering from anxiety
• … And those suffering from post-traumatic-stress