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Meditation is a mental exercise that uses concentrated breathing techniques or repetition mantras to improve mental and physical health or reach a heightened level of spiritual awareness. Meditation may significantly reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and pain, and enhance peace, perception, self-concept, and well-being. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years and was originally meant to help deepen understanding of the sacred and mystical forces of life. These days, meditation is commonly used for relaxation and stress reduction.

During meditation, you focus your attention and eliminate the stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind and causing stress. This process may result in enhanced physical and emotional well-being. You can also use it to relax and cope with stress by refocusing your attention on something calming. Meditation can help you learn to stay centered and keep inner peace.

The emotional and physical benefits of meditation can include, gaining a new perspective on stressful situations, building skills to manage your stress, increasing self-awareness, focusing on the present, reducing negative emotions, increasing imagination and creativity, increasing patience and tolerance, lowering resting heart rate, lowering resting blood pressure, and improving sleep quality.

Meditation might also be useful if you have a medical condition, especially one that may be worsened by stress. A growing body of scientific research supports the health benefits of meditation, some researchers suggest that meditation may help people manage symptoms and conditions such as anxiety, asthma, cancer, chronic pain, depression, heart disease, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, sleep problems, and tension headaches.

Meditation isn't a replacement for traditional medical treatment. But it may be a useful addition to your other treatment.

Types of meditation offered at Relax Meditation Lounge

Guided meditation. Sometimes called guided imagery or visualization, with this method of meditation you form mental images of places or situations you find relaxing. You try to use as many senses as possible, such as smells, sights, sounds, and textures. You may be led through this process by a guide or Reiki Master.
Mindfulness meditation. This type of meditation is based on being mindful or having an increased awareness and acceptance of living in the present moment. In mindfulness meditation, you broaden your conscious awareness. You focus on what you experience during meditation, such as the flow of your breath. You can observe your thoughts and emotions. But let them pass without judgment.
Transcendental meditation. Transcendental meditation is a simple, natural technique. In this form of meditation, you silently repeat a personally assigned mantra, such as a word, sound, or phrase, in a specific way. This form of meditation may allow your body to settle into a state of profound rest and relaxation and your mind to achieve a state of inner peace, without needing to use concentration or effort.

Reiki (Ray-Kee) is a Japanese technique for stress relief, relaxation, and mind, body, and soul healing that boosts the immune system and enhances the body’s natural ability to heal itself. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stressed, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So, Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."

Although Reiki has become popularized in the 19th century, this practice existed in the land of Kemet, now known as Egypt.

How does Reiki work?

In a Reiki session, a trained practitioner becomes a channel and transfers concentrated life force energy through his or her hands to another. The client is fully clothed and may choose light touch or no touch at all. A practitioner scans the body with their hand to determine imbalances present before beginning the session or they may elect to do a full treatment of hand positions that cover key areas where stress typically accumulates in the body. The practitioner then works to charge the recipient’s energy field with positive energy to help restore a healthy, balanced flow of life energy throughout the body. Every person responds to Reiki differently, because the transferred energy travels to the parts of the body that need it most.

Reiki is available to everyone, any age or illness level. It works to restore the natural energetic balance in a person’s body that may have become disrupted or off balance due to stress, injury, and/or illness. Reiki can be used alongside other conventional or complementary treatments and even often helps to provide emotional support during recovery.

Chromotherapy is the science of using colors to adjust body vibrations to frequencies that result in health and harmony. Each color possesses frequencies of a specific vibration, and each vibration is related to different physical symptoms. It is one of the most holistic and simple methods to cure both mental and physical illnesses.

Our bodies need the sun’s light to live. And that light can be broken down into a seven-color spectrum. An imbalance of any of those colors can manifest itself in physical and mental symptoms. Each color charges our cells and gives us a certain amount of energy that produces creativity, motivation, and happiness, or energy that relaxes our bodies and clears the mind of anxiety and stress, plus all the physical benefits listed below.

Color and light have been utilized by healers for thousands of years. Color therapy possibly has roots in Indian medicine (Ayurveda), ancient Egyptian culture, and traditional Chinese healing.

Chromotherapy enhances your Reiki session by improving your overall health. It’s commonly used to treat headaches, seasonal affective disorder, acute and chronic pain, and general mood.

Sound healing, also known as a sound bath, is a meditative experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves of vibrations. Sound can transfer energy through vibration. During the session, waves are produced by various sources, including healing instruments such as gongs, singing bowls, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself. This method can improve physical and emotional health and well-being, stress reduction, decrease anxiety and depression, improve memory, reduce blood pressure, pain reduction, lower cholesterol, and decrease the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Aromatherapy is a holistic healing treatment that uses natural plant extracts to promote health and well-being. Sometimes it’s called essential oil therapy. Aromatherapy uses aromatic essential oils medicinally to improve the health of the body, mind, and spirit. This method can activate areas in your nose called smell receptors, which send messages through your nervous system to your brain to aid the healing process. It works through the sense of smell and skin absorption using diffusers, aromatic spritzers, inhalers, and hot or cold compress masks. Aromatherapy has also been used to help treat a wide range of physical and mental conditions, including depression, insomnia, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunction, arthritis, menopause, and inflammation, as well as treating headaches and migraines, and pain management.