Mindfulness Meditation & Awareness

With Adriana

My Meditation

Being able to take that pause and meditate can help you feel more relaxed and releasing any tension that the body is holding on to. Giving you peacefulness and often lasting far beyond the meditation itself. So, when stress appears hours later, you have the means to redirect it. Meditation lets you become more aware and more purposeful about your actions. Allowing you to control your body reactions and feelings and emotions. Our lives now often dominated by social media distractions, deadlines, and constant multi-tasking, meditation provides a much-needed respite, offering a pausing for our health. Regular meditation can reduce stress, control anxiety, enhance self-awareness, lengthen attention span, and even improve sleep. It’s a journey of self-discovery and an investment in your mental well-being. Meditation decreases the metabolism and lowers blood pressure and is being gentle to the heart by breathing with intent and allowing the heart rate to slow down. Helps the brain to realize things are ok and this will pass. All the feelings of tension and tightness slowly leaves the body, and it sends a quiet note to release and let go. By meditating your mind starts to develop clarity and mental awareness to what’s around you more. Learning to just be. With meditation you may find questions may arise mentally while sitting there quietly and that’s ok, as your body starts to let go and the mind settles in, its all the senses just being in the present moment. There is no wrong or right way to meditate that is the beauty of it. Meditation can be done for as long as you want, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 1 hour you meditate on what is most comfortable for you and the experience. Meditation can be done by sitting, walking, laying down, soft gaze, and just stopping for that moment. Again, there is no wrong or right way that is the beauty of meditation. Meditation can be a profound personal journey of your own and it can allow you to just be with yourself giving you the grace you deserve.

Guided Meditation

Guided meditation is you being led by a teacher through the practice, either in person and/or via zoom/Google Meet/Facetime or WhatsApp’s. This type of meditation is a great beginning and comfortable for beginners, as your teacher, I will help guide you through your inner experience of feelings and emotions, allowing you to just be in this moment. This practice trains your mind to be mindful making you aware of the present which in turn increases self awareness. When you simply observe your thoughts without attachment, it decreases stress levels and promotes emotional balance. Regular practice can improve attention span, focus, and mental clarity, offering a natural remedy for brain fog and distractions. When you introspect through reflection, you become more aware of your emotions, thoughts and reactions. By reflecting on specific topics or questions, you can gain insights, helping you take better decisions and be a better problem solver. This meditation can act as a catalyst for personal development, encouraging growth, change, and self-improvement.

Rain Meditation

Meditation of exploring the non-judgmental awareness of what’s happening in the present moment, includes one’s own thoughts, feelings, and senses. RAIN is a mindful meditation of the present focused on uncomfortable thoughts and emotions. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. Meditation is about cultivating a wide awareness of your thoughts, and physical sensations. It involves observing thoughts and feelings without judgment, letting them come and go naturally. Meditation is not just for your mind but also includes your body and breath. All thoughts, feelings, and sensations are acknowledged without attachment or aversion. Meditation can be practiced for set duration’s, but the meditative state can be stretched to extended periods as well.

Metta Meditation

Also known as a “loving-kindness”; meditation, in this practice you bring your awareness to the people in your life both near and far, known, and unknown, liked, or disliked and direct positive energy and thoughts toward them. It’s a wonderful
technique for decreasing anger and increasing understanding, positivity, and compassion. Regular practice increases positive feelings by inducing joy, kindness, and gratitude. Loving kindness meditation can reduce anger, resentment, and interpersonal conflicts, helping you be more forgiving and understanding. By fostering feelings of compassion and empathy towards yourself and others, this meditation can enhance interpersonal relationships, thus strengthening your
bonds.

Mindful Meditation

Mindful meditation helps us to move from mind to sensation. Staying in the past or dreading the future, this meditation encourages you to become aware of your immediate surroundings or experience, crucially without any judgment. It urges us not to get attached to our thoughts but rather just allow them to be. Through this meditation it allows you to recognize what is happening within your emotions, feelings, and physical body. Mindfulness meditation increases self awareness, focus, enhances memory and boosts creativity. It also reduces stress, anxiety, and negativity in your thinking. Meditation improves your immunity, regulates cardiovascular health and promotes better sleep quality. Mindfulness meditation makes your mood better which in turn improves mental resilience and emotional balance.

Vipassana Meditation

This meditation technique, also called “Insight Meditation”, involves sitting in silence, focusing on the breath, and noting all physical or mental sensations that arise. The idea is to find “insight”; into the true nature of reality which vipassana teaches is suffering, by examining all aspects of your existence. Multi-day vipassana retreats are a popular way to dive deeper into
this practice.