Meditations to Use for Stress Relief
Meditations have tremendous benefits for stress management and overall health. While there are many different meditations that are effective, each brings something unique, and some meditations may feel more comfortable for you than others. The meditations that feel right are the ones to try, as those are the ones you will continue to practice.
The following are some of the most popular, effective, and enjoyable meditations for stress relief; try several, and see what type of meditation works best for you. Then practice regularly and let your chosen meditations transform your life.
Awareness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation involves increased awareness of the present moment. With practice, it can be utilized anywhere and can bring lasting stress relief benefits. This simple meditation technique can be learned quickly and is considered by many to be one of the easiest meditations for stress relief.
There are many mindfulness meditation techniques that can be effective for stress relief and relaxation.
Really, any activity that you perform where you stay fully present, completely and non-judgmentally rooted ‘in the now’ can count as a mindfulness meditation technique and, when practiced regularly, can bring the benefits of meditation to your life.
Meditate with Chocolate
The chocolate meditation is one of the most delicious meditations and can be completed in a few minutes. This concentrative meditation allows you to engage many of your senses at once and lose yourself in all of them.
Meditative Walk
Walking meditation provides the strengths of meditation combined with the benefits of exercise, and has the bonus of being simple to learn and practice, thereby making walking meditation a very useful technique for those new to meditation.
Meditation through Music
Music can affect not only the emotions but our physiology as well. Read about the effects of music.
Using music as a focal point can help you to relax into meditation, can provide a present focus, and can create an enjoyable meditation experience.
Meditate in the Bath
Bath meditations involve the regular aspects of meditation, but with the soothing surroundings of a bath.
Being in a warm tub brings a few unique benefits, and can feel extremely soothing after a long, stressful day.
If you need to get clean anyway, why not try a bath meditation?
Body Scan Meditation
When stress strikes, it is common to carry stress in the form of tension in the body. We often feel this tension so commonly that we fail to realize when we are experiencing it and carry tension indefinitely.
Physical tension can lead to increased emotional tension, creating a "feedback loop" of stress. The body scan meditation can help you to get in touch with your physical tension and can help you to release it at the same time.