{"id":3495,"date":"2023-09-30T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shenghealth.com\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:23:02","slug":"la-meditacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shenghealth.com\/en\/blogs\/la-meditacion\/","title":{"rendered":"11. Awakening Consciousness: The Paths of Meditation towards a Full and Conscious Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Awakening consciousness: the paths of meditation towards a full and conscious life.<\/h1>\n

\u201cMeditation is not only a technique, but it ends up becoming an attitude towards life. An increased state of attention that allows you to live the world with greater wealth and depth of everyday experience. \u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

(Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Doria)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nWhat is meditation?<\/b>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is an ancestral practice where attention is concentrated to cease identification with thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a state of attention and presence that allows living life with more awareness, you can develop and train through different concentration techniques<\/span><\/p>\n

benefit\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

- Reduce stress and anxiety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

- Help live more present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

- It generates greater awareness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

- Pass self -knowledge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

- Help the management of emotions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

- Expand the mental perspective (it allows you to see more points of view) and have more empathy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

- It improves physical health: strengthens the immune system, increases memory and learning capacity, improves cardiovascular health, reduces inflammatory processes, helps reduce or tolerate pain, improve sleep,<\/p>\n

- Among many others!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00bf<\/span>Why meditation practice?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

In today's society the surface dimension tends to predominate; Addictive stimuli prevail, material objects, the search for pleasure, and the lack of deep values \u200b\u200b... sooner or later the absence of the transcendent sense of life appears.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Meditation reconnects with the internal dimension, dynamizes self -discovery and awakening of consciousness, while remembering about infinite essence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It helps to accelerate the process of de-conditioning of the reactive mind: helping to transcend automatic habits and conditioned patterns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is an antidote against stress, fears, anxiety and depression, since it awakens a deep sense to existence and, in addition, you can unlock and heal aspects of the unconscious (repressed material that tends to express itself through destructive emotions) .<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Disminuye la presi\u00f3n sangu\u00ednea creando un ambiente de calma, posibilitando acciones elegidas y voluntarias a la vez que armoniza el ritmo cardiaco.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the relationship of meditation and oriental medicine?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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La Medicina Oriental promueve un estilo de vida que previene los desequilibrios y apoya la salud y el bienestar, por lo tanto, la meditaci\u00f3n es una excelente herramienta para que los pacientes y los terapeutas se integren en su vida cotidiana.<\/p>\n

In addition, Oriental Medicine can use specific meditations to treat some imbalances, since they work on a mental and energetic level, achieving significant changes in the health of patients.<\/p>\n

Qi Gong and Tai Chi, considered as meditations in movement, are also part of the preventive practices and as part of the treatment of Oriental Medicine.<\/p>\n

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Although there are many types of meditative techniques, in general, three important aspects of the practice are taken into account:<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"meditaci\u00f3n\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0posture\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u25e6 Sitting with a straight back, relaxed body, legs and arms uncrossed (You can practice in a chair or sitting on a cushion on the floor. It is not recommended to meditate lying down to avoid falling asleep).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some styles emphasize that the person should not move during the meditation time, other techniques allow you to move a little to adjust the body and then remain still again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RESPIRACI\u00d3N\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u25e6 Pay attention to breathing. A conscious breathing of its four moments: Inhalation, pause, exhalation and pause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ATTITUDE\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u25e6 Eyes closed; Slight hint of a smile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25e6 Acceptance of thoughts, emotions and sensations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25e6 Constant observer of sensations, emotions and thoughts without judging.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25e6 Presence, experience of the here and now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25e6 Return to the present every time you get lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some styles of meditation\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

\u2013 Meditation with mantras: Repetition of specific sounds or vibrations that seek to lead to states of presence and healing.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Presence Meditation: Focuses on concentrating on the present without judging what you observe and detached from the content of the mind.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Meditaci\u00f3n en movimiento: Se busca por medio del movimiento concentrar la atenci\u00f3n al movimiento y la respiraci\u00f3n. Por ejemplo:<\/p>\n