We teach 10 concrete meditation techniques to build your practice.
- Breath Focus: Breath Focus involves concentrating on the natural rhythm and movement of your breath. Benefits of Breath Focus include improved attention, reduced anxiety, and a greater sense of calm.
- Body Scan: The Body Scan is noticing sensations throughout your body to check in with how you're feeling. Benefits of the Body Scan include greater relaxation, better pain management, and enhanced physical insight.
- Labeling: Labeling helps you return from distractions more quickly and easily by labeling the nature of the distraction. Benefits of Labeling include increased focus, greater relaxation, and improved sleep.
- Loving-Kindness: Loving-kindness helps you learn to better understand yourself and relate to others. Benefits of Loving-Kindness include decreased self-criticism, reduced stress, and increased well-being.
- Spotlighting: Spotlighting is focusing on one thing and letting everything else fade into the background. Benefits of Spotlighting include improved decision-making, greater control over attention, better time management, and greater presence.
- Breath Control: Breath Control is consciously controlling the lengths of your inhales and exhales. Benefits of Breath Control include reduced stress and anxiety, lower blood pressure, and improved relaxation.
- Awareness: Awareness involves noticing, without judgment, what's happening right now in your body, mind, and surroundings. Benefits of Awareness include improved problem-solving, increased energy, increased motivation, and a greater sense of satisfaction.
- Visualization: Visualization is using your imagination and visual metaphors to become more aware, energized, or relaxed. Benefits of Visualization include increased motivation, improved focus, and greater awareness.
- Innovation: Innovation helps you generate more ideas and become better at solving problems. Benefits of Innovation include improved problem-solving, increased idea-generation, greater creativity, and increased confidence.
- Self-Direction: Self-direction is the confidence and ability to guide yourself through meditation. Benefits of Self-Direction include greater independence, increased confidence, and improved well-being.