Transcript Learn Meditation

Welcome to Learning about Meditation
and a Meditation Experience
“Either you control your stress, or stress controls you.”
Adapted from: I Never Knew I Had A Choice
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
The Meditation Society of American
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Relaxation
 A profoundly restful condition
 One is physically relaxed
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Involves being somewhat detached from immediate environment
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Herbert Benson at Harvard initially described “the relaxation response”
(The Relaxation Response, 1975/1976/2000)
Meditation
 The physical act of remaining quiet and focusing
on one’s breath, a word, or phrase
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Source: The Meditation
Society of American
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Mindfulness
 An awareness of what is unfolding in the present moment
 “Where your mind is, is where you are.”
Deep Breathing
 Diaphragmatic Breathing
 Abdominal breathing involving full use of your diaphragm
 Simply breathing in slowly and deeply, and breathing out slowly
and completely
 Often in-breath though your nose and out-breath through your
mouth
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