2024-02-09 21:02:34
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Meditation, for Pablo D’Ors in his book Biography of Silence, is a tool that concentrates us, “it brings us home, it teaches us to live with our being.” For the Spanish author, meditating is attending “this fascinating and tremendous process of death and rebirth.” It sounds dramatic and intense, but to bring it to something more tangible, the Mayo Clinic details, on its website, that meditation is a simple and quick way to reduce stress.
“Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years. Originally the purpose of meditation was to help deepen understanding of the sacred and mystical forces in life. Currently, meditation is commonly used for relaxation and stress reduction,” they explain.
This practice is considered a type of complementary medicine for mind and body since “during meditation, you focus your attention and eliminate the flow of confusing thoughts that may be filling your mind and causing you stress. This process can result in an enhancement of physical and emotional well-being,” they say at the Mayo Clinic.
The practice has spread more strongly in the West following the pandemic, although there are still those who do not adapt nor have they been able to achieve it. For Andrea Halaby, writer and meditative guide, at critical moments in history spiritual tools become more visible and there are many countries (such as the Eastern ones) in which the spiritual presence is very strong, but in our countries people look for more. the spiritual in times of crisis.
For Valentina Ramírez, meditation and reiki facilitator, people are definitely falling into burnout or professional burnout syndrome, the stress is too noticeable and that is where meditation has come in to lend a hand. Because? “It has been shown that meditation is a tool that helps focus attention on the present moment and we need those spaces where we are attentive to the present not only to enjoy and access more creative spaces, but also to calm our nervous system.”
Andrea reiterates that, today, there are more or less 2,500 ways to meditate: “Zen, Hindu, Buddhist, within the spectrum of meditation there is a rainbow of possibilities, if you don’t know how to meditate it may be due to lack of knowledge or because “He has only rehearsed one of the 2,500 and he has not adapted.” And there the first thing is to demystify the idea that meditating means having a blank mind, because that is not the case.
Vanessa Restrepo Ochoa, publicist, coach and DJ and creator of electromeditation, says that blanking the mind is a myth that generates suspicion and prevention: “Meditating is entering a state of consciousness through conscious or voluntary breathing, through a observation of one’s own breathing.
Valentina adds that it is a path that has no end because meditating is learning to observe, know and train the mind and only requires intention and will.
New tendencies
Andrea Halaby will have a group meditation and breathing class this weekend at the second edition of the Habítate fair at the El Tesoro Commercial Park (it will be on Sunday at 11:30 in the morning) where she will teach regarding breathing with exercises and will show various tools to be calm and present.
One of his recommendations is to “take meditation gently while you understand it and learn that it is a tool to be able to quiet the mind and be more present.”
Another key is to inform yourself and explore with openness and desire because you have to learn and rehearse, “there are some meditations that are more recommended for anxious people, others for the day or at night and for example you don’t always have to meditate in a meditation posture, you have to accept that this is how it works for you. “We all have a different path and meditative form.”
Vanesa Restrepo Ochoa found in mindfulness meditation (the kind of full attention recommended by the WHO) a life mission and that is why she immersed herself fully in electromeditation (electromeditation in Spanish), which consists of doing meditation with electronic music.
That’s why he began researching the subject following attending an electronic music festival in Miami, “at the festival I thought that if people might reach the levels of introspection that I reach while listening to music, they would understand what meditation is and would use it.” music for purposes other than mere entertainment that is often mixed with liquor or substances.”
Electromeditation unites what Vanessa has learned over the years, from quantum coaching, to mindfulness, cymatics (science that studies the graphic representation of sound) to binaural waves (auditory stimulation with two different tones or frequencies for each ear). and to understand it all better, she studied to be a DJ and to be able to handle music as she pleased. “I needed instrumental music, more harmonious, with fewer vocals, I do a very select audit of the music and choose rhythms that should allow me to speak in order to guide it, it is a way to bring people who feel alien to meditation closer.” .
Another practice that has become popular lately is meditation in the midst of daily activities, such as cleanfulness while washing dishes or greenfulness, which is the tendency to surround yourself with plants to reduce stress. Finally, they are derived from mindfulness or full attention, which invites us not to anchor or become attached to anything, not even to sensations. “May life itself be a meditation, may everything you do be done in an act of presence. It’s regarding that, cooking, washing the dishes, that everything is done consciously,” explains Vanessa.
So when you have lunch, leave your cell phone next to you and concentrate on each bite. If you walk, observe the landscape. If you clean the house, be aware of every movement, every action. If you fix your garden, let it take away your concentration. other options.
Finally, Andrea remembers a phrase from Buddha: “If you don’t have time to meditate, you should meditate twice as much”, so what are you waiting for to try it?
About the Treasury Fair
Habítate began in its second edition that will run until Sunday, February 11. “An event that aims to be a catalyst for individual change and become an ally for those interested in living experiences in the search for balance.
The Fair is made up of three components: talks with experts, group classes and a trade fair with more than 50 participating brands,” they say from this commercial park.
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