Ever notice how good it feels when a total stranger stops you and pays you a nice compliment? It can almost guarantee a smile. Rather than waiting for someone else to make you feel good, the same feeling can be achieved by performing a quick meditation with a positive affirmation.
The Brain and Meditation
The brain is divided into the left and right side. The left side is responsible for thinking and emits beta waves. The right side of the brain is for feeling and omits alpha waves. As most of the day is spent in thinking mode, an imbalance can occur between the left and right sides of the brain.
Meditation can bring a balance between the two sides, thereby allowing for less thinking and more feeling. By being able to feel more, you can be more receptive to positive affirmations, which in turn will help you feel better.
Repeating Positive Affirmations
By repeating a positive affirmation of your choosing during meditation, it allows for the left side of the brain to be quieter so the message can reach the right side of the brain, evolving into an experience of emotion. To begin this meditation, get in a comfortable, meditation position, close your eyes and start to take deep, long, cleansing breaths.
If stressed out and wanting to feel more relaxed, try repeating the word relax. Even envision the word in your mind. With each breath you take, feel the calming energy come into your body while the tension goes out of your body each time you exhale. Repeat this any time of the day you wish to slow down.
Meditating to Feel Good About Yourself
There are many positive affirmations that can be used in meditation. Don't forget how special you are and you can remind yourself of that by meditating on, "I am special."
Call up the love you have and the love you give by stating, "I give love and I'm blessed to have love given to me." If looking for a more cosmic approach, try, "I am one with the universe and the universe is with me."
Positive Religious Affirmations
Some people enjoy combining prayer with meditation. A positive affirmation could be, "God, I love You and I know You love me." A Christian could recite, "The love of Jesus is in my heart." It really doesn't matter which religion is worshiped if one wants to meditate on a religious, positive affirmation. Just take a religious saying, (possibly a line from a prayer,) that makes you feel good and keep repeating it.
The basic idea to meditating with a positive affirmation is to find something to say that makes you feel good. What is actually said is really up to the individual. Just stay focused on whatever you are saying in the meditation and really believe in what you say to optimize the meditation.
Readers may also enjoy Healing The Mind With Meditation, along with The Best Time Of Day For Meditation , and Healing With Essential Oils.
Source:
- A Guide to Meditation, Lorraine Turner, (Parragon Publishing,) 2002.
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