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 Understanding Centering Meditation
Centering is a meditation technique used for intermediate to advanced meditation students and practitioners who have already mastered the basic processes of meditation and who are capable of focusing their minds with relative ease. Beginner students should not attempt Centering until they manage to keep their mind from wandering off or get distracted by outside stimulus or non-related thoughts.
The name of Centering comes from the image that life can be chaotic and hectic around us, just like a hurricane. However, with the power of our minds, we can create a haven, a safe and calm place where everything in quiet and calm, just like the center of a hurricane.
The goals and benefits of Centering Meditation are very clear and concise. It mainly seeks to use contemplation and imagery to detach the person from the conflicts that affect him or her and see his or her situation in a much more unemotional, objective way. The main benefit of this is that the person can “move” to a psychological state where the emotional pain will be reduced or eliminated, and where decisions can be taken in an unbiased way, very often resulting in much better short and long terms results.
Centering Meditation is a popular technique because it offers concrete and beneficial results. In addition, constant training will eventually allow the person to achieve Centering with less time, and the results will last longer, allowing the person to dedicate less energy to the meditation process and more to carrying out the tasks that are needed to solve the problem that is affecting the person in the first place.
As observed above, Centering Meditation requires a relatively a good control of his or her mind, which is why the technique is recommended for students that are at least in the intermediate levels.
The practice starts by preparing in the same way that is needed for any type of meditation session. Comfortable clothes and shoes should be worn and the body should be relaxed, but not sleepy. The person must have eaten and drunk to avoid being distracted by hunger or thirst, but not so much that it results in other types of distraction.
Once the person is ready, he or she has to lie down in a comfortable position. The meditation starts by focusing on one’s breathing. Breathing should be slower and deeper than normal, but it should be able to be maintained without too much conscious effort.
After becoming used to this state, the person’s mind can focus on his or her thoughts. If the person has been having under stress, anxiety, or fear, most of these thoughts will be negative. While this is not a bad thing, the person should make a conscious effort to think of positive thoughts as well.
Each time that the person exhales, he or she has to let go one negative thought, emotion, or feeling. On the other hand, each time the person inhales, he or she has to recuperate one “cleaned” thought, or incorporate a new, positive thought or affirmation to his or her state of mind.
That is, in short, how Centering Meditation works. If you’d like to try Centering, then you should consult with your meditation guide and ask him or her to explain you the exact requirements and give you an evaluation on whether you’re ready or not to try it.
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