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True-Self
Actualization
"Overview
of
Meditation Techniques"
Workshops written and Conducted by Rebecca
A. Holdorf
Copyright
2003 Rebecca A. Holdorf-Foundations of Light, LLC
*Classes are approximately 3 hours long, and are held
on separate dates. Check the Community
Classes Calendar for times and locations.
“Meditation”
is a general term that
describes many different techniques used to
quiet the mind
for a variety of purposes. In other words, there are different
forms of meditation and many reasons to meditate. This
workshop will explore a few of those forms and describe how
and why each form is used for the desired effect.
We will also take
some time during this workshop to
personally explore
a few of these forms and see how soothing and wonderfully
refreshing a number of them can be.
Different Forms of Meditation for Different Purposes:
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Soothing/Peace Inducing Meditation—for
stress reduction and relaxation
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Cleansing or Energy Gathering
Meditations—used to clear the
energy field around a person of negative energies and to
increase the positive, loving energy entering the field to
raise the vibration and strengthen the
person
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Vipassana Meditation—Introspective
or contemplative purposes
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Gazing Meditation—for
focusing attention and shutting down mental chatter (the
ultimate purpose of gazing is meant to learn the true
“essence” of whatever becomes the object of your focused
concentration
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Healing Meditation—for
visualizing healing or transformational journeys
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Visualization
Meditations—utilizes
positive visualization techniques for specific purposes
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Higher Vibration
Meditations—for
increasing peace and compassion within and throughout, or
for transcending the physical plane while still on it
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The “Emergency
Response” meditation—for
anxiety attacks using a more refined and tighter focused
version of the (1,2,3,4) meditation
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Walking meditations—like
mind-clearing nature walks where one focuses on each
footstep rising and falling or walking the labyrinth in a
reverent state of mind
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Moving Meditations—like
Tai Chi or Chi Gong
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Writing meditations—clearing
the mind and free writing as thoughts arise
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Guided meditations—with
both individual or group, for different purposes. Can be
used in relaxation, healing, or group centering and
bonding situations
Some copyrighted
meditation techniques like
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
that uses a personalize mantra or some other registered system
that is specifically bonded or licensed to a group or to an
individual, or Dr. Herbert
Benson’s “Progressive Muscle Relaxation Techniques”—these
types of meditation may be highly effect when used under the
strict control of the group licensing it, but is not the only
means of reaching
a higher state of consciousness, nor is it
the only way of achieving muscle and mind relaxation.
Check the
Community Classes Calendar for
times and locations of all classes.
All workshops
are conducted by
Rebecca A. Holdorf,
teacher and author of the HONORING THE HERMIT
Series.
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