Healing Meditation Products

A small selection of Healing Meditation Products that are offered on the Creative Healing Meditation website are now available on the new Products webpage.

Here you can find guided meditations available for download such as the Healer Man Series or home study courses such as the Energy Self-Healing called Unlocking the Ki.

More products - including a Reiki Level 1 Home Study Course - will be added to this page after the New Year.

All the products are designed to create healing effects through one or a combination of the following methods: visualisation, writing or energy healing.

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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness & Creativity by David Lynch

David Lynch has been a dedicated practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for over 30 years and has created the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. This organisation provides scholarships and resources for teaching children and teenagers the art of Transcendental Meditation.

In his book, Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch talks about how meditation has influenced his creativity and helped him to come up with the unusual ideas, iconic images and concepts that have populated his work throughout his career.

However the book deals more with the connection between meditation and the creative processes than the techniques of meditation itself.

It is a personal look at how meditation has influenced one artist's life.

David Lynch: Kids and Meditation

David Lynch, the creator of Twin Peaks and the director of the Elephant Man, is launching a campaign in the UK to promote the practice of Transcendental Meditation in schools.

Lynch believes that Transcendental Meditation helps to develop creativity and academic ability as well as improving the emotional well-being, health and stress levels of children.

He has already launched a similar campaign in the United States with approximately 20,000 schoolkids practising the two 20 minute sessions every day.

Read more about Transcendental Meditation here.

Mandalas and Meditation

Meditation, in its simplest sense, is the art of focusing your mind on one thing.

So there are many creative forms of meditation which don't involve emptying the mind, sitting in a lotus position and counting the breath.

For example, working with mandalas is a form of meditation which can connect you with the unconscious part of your self and evoke relaxation, healing and enhance your spiritual awareness and intuition.

Mandalas are said to originate from Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism.

The word 'mandala' is from the Sanskrit language. It is often translated as 'circle' or 'sacred circle'.

Mandalas are usually in a circular form composed of symmetrical shapes with a deity or a symbol in the centre.

You can meditate with a mandala by contemplating the central which can symbolise your Inner Self. After gazing at the mandala for several minutes, when you close your eyes, your mind's eye will be able to reproduce the mandala. With closed eyes, you can watch the mandala. The colours may change. The patterns may pulsate. You may experience a strong feeling of well-being.

Creating a mandala can also be an act of meditation - whether it be colouring it in, drawing one, painting one, or constructing one out of wood, rice, jewels or sand.

Traditionally, before creating a mandala, Tibetan monks would chant in meditation before creating the outline of the mandala.

Mandalas can also be created or used to purify your environment and create a sacred space.

You can read more about mandalas here: http://www.creative-healing-meditation.com/mandalas.html.

Picture source: http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/images/mandala.jpg

Try a Creative Approach to Healing

Looking for a creative approach to healing?
Take a look at my free newsletter, Imagine which includes a guided meditation which sends energy healing to the listener.

You can read the third issue without subscribing by clicking on the link.

So what’s in the latest issue?

Special Offer

Healer Man is a guided audio meditation which combines energy healing, visualisation and the creativity of your own imagination.

You can purchase The Healer Man Meditation at half the usual price.

It is available to download instantly.

Listening to this guided meditation will help to:

● relax your mind and body
● relieve stress and anxiety
● increase your spiritual connection

This issue of the newsletter also includes:

● a short article about the difference between healing and curing

● quotations dedicated to the theme of healing to inspire, motivate and encourage

● a short review of a perennial bestseller which is packed with lots of methods to heal and empower you on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.


You can also contribute to the next issue of the newsletter by sharing your motivation, meditation and relaxation tips while promoting your own newsletter, blog or website.

If you like Imagine,you can subscribe so that you can receive it automatically next month directly to your e-mail address.

You will then receive monthly meditation and motivation tips or special discount offers on products related to meditation and personal development.

The newsletter is free. And you don’t have to subscribe to read Issue 3.
You also gain access to the Special Offer given to Imagine readers.

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An Introduction to Energy Healing

Feeling stressed?
Can't get enough sleep?
In need of emotional support?
Looking for a spiritual connection?

Energy healing can help with all of the above and with many other symptoms, difficulties and challenges.

Perhaps you don't have time to take an Energy Healing course. Or maybe a weekend workshop or seminar doesn't appeal to you. You would like to heal emotional wounds but have a strong need for privacy.

Maybe you do wish to follow an Energy Healing course but aren't sure if this path is the right choice for you.

One solution is the home study course Unlocking the Ki which is based on the Usui Spiritual Energy Healing Method and which provides an introduction to energy healing.

'Ki' comes from the Japanese word for universal life energy. The course will teach you how to access this energy for your own healing, support and personal development.

This introductory course includes six guided meditations with music and a course manual. The course materials are available to download immediately.

You can follow the course independently at your own pace and there is the option of an online tutor at no extra charge at any point in the course.

Unlocking the Ki gives you the ability to:

• Connect with universal energy through simple instructions and powerful but gentle guided meditations
• Be attuned to the Universal Energy through MEDITATION so you will be able to access this healing life force for yourself anywhere and anytime
• Reinforce and strengthen your connection to the Universal Source of Energy by listening to the meditation recordings and practising the exercises whenever is best for you

This will help you towards relaxation, holistic healing or a deeper connection to your spiritual self.

Buy Unlocking the Ki here.

Read more about Unlocking the Ki here.

Imagine - the Free Ezine

The second issue of Imagine, the free e-newsletter will be out this week.

Imagine is a newsletter about meditation, inspiration and related topics.

This month's issue contains a great visualisation exercise designed to motivate and focus the mind on achieving goals.

Subscribe here and receive your free copy by e-mail this week.

Simple Stillness Meditation

This is one of the meditation tips offered on my Stress Busting E-Course .

It is very simple yet effective and a bit like playing Musical Statues - only without the music.

The object of the exercise is to sit comfortably, close your eyes and to try and keep your body perfectly still.

You don't have to empty your mind. In fact, you can think about whatever you want and let your thoughts go where they like. However you may find that the simple act of sitting motionless may be enough to still your thoughts.

As you concentrate on not moving your body or fidgeting - which some people may find difficult - you may discover that your mind is no longer racing along thinking fast thoughts because your attention is focused on keeping your body still. And often where your body leads, your mind will follow (and the other way round, of course too).

If you find it difficult to keep still, you can practise this exercise for five minutes initially and then gradually lengthen the period that you keep still over the next few days.

If you find the exercise really easy, you can sit completely still for anything from fifteen minutes to half an hour and beyond.

You will find that the act of sitting still will also still your thoughts and centre your being.

You can find similar exercises on the Free 7 Day Stress Busting E-Course.

Achieving Goals - Part Three

You may have heard of Cosmic Ordering, the system created by Barbel Mohr for manifesting your goals.

One of Barbel Mohr's guided meditations instructs the listener to imagine that the cosmos is like the internet and to connect to the cosmos, we should imagine that we are going online.

I have created the following visualisation exercise based on the concept of cosmic ordering and the internet. It is a form of proactive prayer.

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Observe your breathing for a couple of minutes and instruct your body and mind to relax.

When you are relaxed:

Imagine that you are at your PC and you are shopping online. But you are not ordering from Amazon. You are ordering from the Universe.

There are different categories in the Universe's Online Store: Career, Property, Relationships, Health and so on.

In each category, you select what you want to order. For example, in the Career section, you may order a new job. In the Property section, you may order a new house. In the Health section, you may order Peace of Mind.

When you click on each item that you want, it goes into your shopping cart.
Finally you go to your Shopping Cart and review your list.
When you are satisfied with your list, see yourself clicking the SUBMIT YOUR ORDER button.

Et voilà.

Read Achieving Goals - Part Two

Read Achieving Goals - Part One

Read Achieving Goals - Part Four

New FREE Online Stress Relief Course

A new 7 day Stress Busting course is now available from my main website.

The course is absolutely free. You need do nothing more than sign up for it on the link below.
You will then receive each day's lesson by e-mail.

The course provides practical relaxation techniques and carefully designed exercises for reducing the symptoms of stress.

Discover creative and healing methods of combatting stress by enroling on the 7 Day Stress Busting E-Course.

To enrol, click on the link, scroll to the bottom of the page and complete and submit the short form:

FREE 7 Day Stress Busting E-Course

Window Meditation

On a day like today with the sun shining brightly through the windows, I thought that this would be a relaxing meditation.

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• Sit in front of a window.
  


• Take a few deep breaths.
  
  
• As you breathe in, imagine that you are taking the sunlight into your body and that it is a healing light which is entering and rejuvenating all your body's cells.
  
  
• When any thoughts enter your mind, as you breathe out, imagine that the thoughts are flying out of your head, out of the window and into the light outside.
  

Repeat this exercise: breathing in the light and breathing out your thoughts (especially any negative ones) for at least five minutes and then as long as you feel comfortable.

Adapting the Window Meditation

It may not always be a beautiful day. But you can still do the exercise with or without the sun. You could also try it at night with the moon.

If it's raining, when you do the breathing out part of the meditation, you can imagine that your negative thoughts are flying out of the window and are being purified by the rain.

Or if it is cloudy, as you breathe out, you can imagine that your stressful thoughts are being carried away on one of the clouds.

Memoirs and Meditation

Writing can be a great method of meditation whether it is free, unfocused, stream-of-consciousness writing or it is a reflective piece of writing that is focused on one particular concept such as 'peace' or 'hope'.

Writing about significant episodes in your life can be a meaningful act of reflection.

When you review your life through the written word, it is often surprising to discover how much you have gone through, how much you've achieved and survived, how far you've come and how far you've got to go.

Taking pivotal moments from your life and freezing them like written snapshots just for yourself can open you up to important insights about yourself, your relationship with yourself and your relationships with other people.

Some of us spend so much of our time on a treadmill in an endless repetitive cycle of of work, home, TV, hobbies etc. lost in the everyday details of our lives that we don't get to see the big picture.

Writing about aspects of your past life can highlight where you are on your current journey giving you a new perspective and vision of your future.

Sometimes it is is good to stop, notice and reflect, to pause and evaluate without judgement or criticism, just to observe with an impartial eye what has happened, what is going on and what sort of future you are creating for tomorrow.

Read more about Free Writing or Reflective Writing.

Health Benefits of Meditation

Here are a couple of articles detailing recent medical research into the health benefits of meditation.

Click to read full article: Meditation Fools The Brain

This article outlines recent research studies carried out by universities in the United States into the health benefits of meditation which include boosting the immune system, improving memory, controlling binge eating (and increasing happiness!)

Click to read full article: Transcendental Meditation and Congestive Heart Failure

This article discusses a study carried out by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with African American men and women in their sixties. The study demonstrated that Transcendental Meditation significantly improved the quality of life and emotional state of the participants as well as reducing the physical factors that contribute to heart failure.

More about the benefits of transcendental meditation on the Creative Healing Meditation website.

Meditation for Beginners

Meditation, like any new skill, requires practice.

Just like when learning to play a musical instrument, you may have to practise scales before you can play sonatas, or a dancer has to train at the barre before becoming a ballerina, meditators may have to practise breathing exercises and relaxation techniques before they are able to reach anything resembling a continual state of bliss.

It is much easier to meditate when you are on a yoga holiday or a retreat or sitting on a mountaintop. It's a bit more of a challenge when you live in the middle of a city, have a stressful commute to work or a young family to take care of or both.

Small steps are recommended if you are starting out on a meditation practice. It is better to allot a few minutes a day to centering yourself and then gradually extend the time as it becomes easier.

One day something clicks and everything falls into place. Other days you find it hard to reach the same state of peacefulness again.

Every meditation session is different and brings something new. Even if you don't notice any change at all. Meditation has an accumulative effect on the mind and body. Changes are going on in the background, unconsciously.

If you are used to filling your mind with clutter, decluttering it can sometimes be a shock to the system. So if you have started meditating and are thinking of giving up, keep at it for a bit.

Remember all the benefits of meditation.

Remember there are many different methods of meditation which may involve writing, movement, breathing, drawing, guided imagery, listening to music and much more.

If one method doesn't work for you, try something else. And while you're looking, don't give up.

Stress and Deadlines

If I am really stressed, have lots of things to do and no time to do it in, my breathing becomes shallow, my thoughts are faster, I don't finish one task before I start on the next one and while doing that I remember something that I forgot to do and should have done weeks ago.

Jobs that revolve around meeting deadlines crank up the stress factor - as does drinking lots of coffee.

Living in London is not conducive to deep relaxation. I often myself hurrying to get somewhere even when I'm not in a hurry, hurtled along by the crowd.

One tip to combat stress is to slow all your actions down - no matter how much you have to do and no matter how much you feel is not getting done.

When I consciously make an effort to slow down, concentrate on one task at a time, be in the moment, I achieve much more and get lots more done. My breathing automatically becomes slower, my posture becomes better without thinking about it and I don't feel as if life is just one big deadline.

It is a real challenge to walk when you can run. But sometimes it can be a real stress buster.

Lately I've decided to use the word 'milestone' instead of 'deadline'. It's not exactly a synonym but I find 'reaching a milestone' to be less stress-inducing than 'meeting a deadline'.

The Happiest Man in the World

Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk, photographer, author, former biologist and translator for the Dalai Lama, has written a new book called Happiness: A Guide To Developing Life's Most Important Skill which contains simple meditation exercises.

Matthieu Ricard is the son of artist Yahne Le Toumelin and philosopher and journalist, Jean-François Revel. He has led a fascinating life and is suitably qualified to write a book about Happiness.

He has been declared the Happiest Man in the World following rigorous clinical tests by neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin using MRI scanning to monitor his brain activity. (Read the scientific ins and outs of the study and an interview here)

Meditation for Beginners

When you are starting out with meditation, it can be difficult to settle or 'empty your mind' as you sometimes may be told. Besides our minds are never really empty.

But one simple meditation exercise which can be used to focus your mind is to count your breath. This helps you to notice when your attention has wandered.

Five-Minute Breathing Exercise

Observe yourself as you breathe.
Don't try to breathe any deeper or slower, just observe your natural breathing cycles.
You may notice that your breathing slows down and deepens all by itself without any effort on your part.

Once you have settled into a rhythm, after the next out-breath say 'One' silently to yourself.
Then after the next out-breath say 'Two'.
Keep doing this until you reach up to the number ten.
Then start all over again.

If your mind is really scattered, you may start thinking about other things by the time you get to five or six. You may even momentarily forget that you are doing this exercise.
If this happens, simply go back to the number 'one' and repeat the exercise again.

If you find this exercise easy, you may wish to prolong the technique for ten or fifteen minutes.

Read about some of the Benefits of Meditation

Feeling Stressed?

A survey carried out earlier this month by The Samaritans revealed that Britain was one of the most stressed nations in Europe.

Factors such as long working hours, financial pressures, lack of sleep and emotionally draining family problems contributed to the prevailing feeling of stress in those who were questioned.
Meditation can help with insomnia and reduce general stress levels.

The following links contain simple exercises which may be helpful in combating stress:

Relaxation Technique

Settling the Mind

Breathing

Mantras

Mantra meditations involve the slow repetition of a seed word.

In Hinduism, the seed word or bija is a sound which carries energy and that purifies the mind and body when chanted.

The Sanskrit mantra Om is one of the most famous sounds used for chanting.

By chanting ‘Ommmmmm' as slowly as possible, it is believed that you become one with creation.

The longer you chant, the more energy you accumulate and this in turn creates beneficial and sometimes powerful results.

For another example of a mantra meditation exercise, see the Shalom Meditation.

Positive Vibrations

At its simplest, meditation can be described as the focus of the mind on one thing.
This focus could be an image, painting or a photograph.

My Positive Vibrations Page contains a photograph of waterfalls which has been infused with universal energy.

When I spend some minutes contemplating the photograph, I sometimes feel a tingling in my head, inner vibrations or a feeling of calm.

The other Monday, I turned up at work expecting to have a relatively peaceful week and was shocked to receive an unexpectedly angry e-mail over a relatively trivial matter. I felt mortified and a bit humiliated.

I decided to spend a few minutes looking at the Positive Vibrations Page to calm myself down. I guess I was too ruffled to feel peaceful tingles or expansive vibrations.

But at least I went from feeling completely mortified to slightly miffed. So it's all good stuff.