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Meditation
- Introduction of meditation
- Different types of meditation
- Benefits of meditation
- Who uses meditation today
What is meditation ?
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- Meditation is the practice of an extended state of contemplation for achieving calm, psychological balance, and wellbeing.
- It is sometimes practiced with the goal of achieving an altered state of consciousness.
General Types of Meditation
- Focused Attention Meditation
- Open Monitoring Meditation
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Focused attention meditation
In focused meditation, you direct your attention to a chosen object, such as the sensation of the breath entering and leaving your nostrils, and you keep your attention focused on that object from moment to moment. Focused meditation involves concentration using any of the five senses.
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.
Breathing Meditation
Breathing Meditation ~ Breathing meditation requires the redirection and holding of attention to the object of breath and trains sustained attention and interoception. Breathing meditation is a focused attention type of meditation.
Loving-kindness meditation
Loving-kindness meditation involves cognitive processes including redirection of attention to mental imagery and sentences, as well as remembering sentences, generating and maintaining mental imagery. Furthermore it involves affective processes such as generating and sustaining positive affect in order to train an increase in positive emotions, compassion and prosocial behavior. Loving-kindness meditation is also a focused attention type of meditation.
Observing-thoughts meditation
Observing-Thoughts Meditation ~ The observing-thoughts meditation requires cognitive processes such as redirection and holding attention to the object of thoughts, categorization of thoughts, development and maintaining meta-awareness in order to train detachment from mental events. Due to the greater amount and complexity of attentional, cognitive and affective processes involved in loving-kindness meditation and observing-thoughts meditation as compared to breathing meditation we assume that these exercises can be categorized as more demanding than breathing meditation and thus should be associated to higher levels of self-reported effort and physiological arousal when performed. This type of meditation is considered to be open monitoring meditation.
Guided Meditation
Guided meditation is sometimes called guided imagery or visualization. This method of meditation is when you form mental images of places or situations that you find relaxing. During guided meditation, you will try to use as many senses as possible, such as smells, sights, sounds and textures. During guided meditation, you will follow the instructions of a trained professional or teacher. You can find many different guided meditations online as well, it doesn’t have to be done with an instructor in person. Guided meditation can be found in many different forms of meditation. It is interchangeable and can be made to fit your personality or needs. The meditations we talked about earlier in the presentation are often used to form different guided meditations.
Guided Meditation
Using guided meditation for stress relief is very common. Many people go to guided meditation as a way to escape and go into a place of peace and serenity. It is easily achieved due to the “guidance” you have with guided meditation. Other types of meditation allow for you to do it on your own which some people like and some people dislike. When it comes to choosing the best type of meditation for you, it is all personal preference and you can make it into what you like and what you find to be helpful for dealing with stress.
*Now we will be doing the class activity, where either I will perform a guided mediation or we will play one on youtube*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfw-rJUvy4
Benefits of meditation
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Meditation reduced the stress levels
Subconcious mindhas control our body cell and body systems.
- Helps you calm down
- Decrease heart rate
- Decrease the anxiety
benefits to cognition
- Increased concentration and cognitive abilities.
- Decrease the mind wandering helps focus on the project.
Low cost
- Low cost.
- Require small amount of time.
- No location limition.
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How it relative to nursing
- Nursing program is an intensive education, yet anxiety.
- Meditation can be a new stategies in nursing education.
- Meditation benfits more for our career.
Who uses meditation today
Students
- Used by students in all different field of studies.
- Used to relive stress.
- Used to focus and sharpen the mind.
Adults
- 8.0% of all Americans use Meditation.
- 18 Million.
- Many different reasons for use.
- Stressful job market.
- Bills.
- Kids.
Children
- On the Rise
- Helps to teach kids to focus.
- Helps to relax.
- Benefits are have barely been researched and proven compared to adults.
The Spiritual and Religious
- Many religious individuals meditate.
- Some may meditate on their holy book or on certain prayers.
- However, most people do not meditate for religious purposes.
Increase Heart Rate
- Some meditations are relaxing.
- Other types of meditation may raise the heart rate.
- Meditation that increases focus causes an increase in heart rate.