Our Meditation Services
With the hectic pace and demands of modern life, many people feel stressed and over-worked. It often feels like there is just not enough time in the day to get everything done. Our stress and tiredness make us unhappy, impatient and frustrated. It can even affect our health.
We are often so busy we feel there is no time to stop and meditate! But meditation actually gives you more time by making your mind calmer and more focused. A simple ten or fifteen minute breathing meditation as explained below can help you to overcome your stress and find some inner peace and balance.
Spiritual flow conducts meditation sessions, please contact us to find out more information.
Meditation Techniques used
Focused attention meditation
Focusing the attention on a single object during the whole meditation session. This object may be the breath, a mantra, visualization, part of the body, external object, etc. As the practitioner advances, his ability to keep the flow of attention in the chosen object gets stronger, and distractions become less common and short-lived.
Open monitoring meditation
Instead of focusing the attention on any one object, we keep it open, monitoring all aspects of our experience, without judgment or attachment. All perceptions, be them internal (thoughts, feelings, memory, etc.) or external (sound, smell, etc.), are recognized and seen for what they are. It is the process of non-reactive monitoring of the content of experience from moment to moment, without going into them.
Zen Meditation
Zazen (坐禅) means “seated Zen”, or “seated meditation”, in Japanese. It has its roots in the Chinese Zen Buddhism (Ch’an) tradition, tracing back to Indian monk Bodhidharma (6th century CE). In the West, its most popular forms comes from Dogen Zenji (1200~1253), the founder of Soto Zen movement in Japan. Similar modalities are practiced in the Rinzai school of Zen, in Japan and Korea.
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Meditation Benefits
Spiritual Flow holds frequent group meditation sessions. Group meditation sessions give you the opportunity to leverage off the off an entire group rather than an individual and can provide greater feelings of peace and serenity.
- Promotes inner well being
- Relieves stress
- Helps to develop positive social connections
- increases memory retention & recall
- lessens heart & brain problems
- improves resilience against pain & adversity
- Slows aging
- Increases Acceptance
- Encourages a healthy lifestyle
- Improves concentration
- Helps you to become friends & love yourself