This paper describes under a research approach and literature review meditation as a crucial mind-body practice. Journal projects will equally be undertaken to determine how meditation as a body practice alongside mindfulness leads to the betterment of the lives amongst those partaking it. Engaging in a beneficial meditation calls for choosing a quiet spot, loosening up, and leaving out any technological devices while closing one’s eyes accompanied by deep repeated breaths. According to (Lumma, Kok, & Singer, 2015), meditation entails the affirmation of positive and energy-releasing sentences, phrases, or words that mean something good while repeating the same statements. One of the author’s example is a student that affirms he or she has all the answers to a discussion and that is enough to make it easier doing an assignment. The same author states that it is recommend to engage in the meditation stint for about thirty minutes, but the same has to be accompanied by monitoring the time.
Another article warns of having your thoughts veering off into negativities which could lead to the plaguing of an individual. That would call for a lot of discipline in the form of maintaining a moment of silence, avoid operating electrical gadgets or devices, while most importantly shutting down the television of laptop. It is stated in the study that embracing such a silence ensures that more negative thoughts can be locked out of one’s mind, hence making one a successful or otherwise a benefactor of a good meditation practice. Ensure that you are in a position to repeat the earlier positive phrases, statements, and words. Body-mind practice through meditation is a tool through which intruders can be kept at bay hence enabling personal patience, concentration, and actual inner introspection. (Ziaian, Sawyer, Evans, & Gillham, 2015) provides that there is no wrong or right way of meditating, but the most important is that one keeps on doing for their overall improvement.
Meditation has therefore been considered in the study of Philo, Cadman, and Lea (2015) as a mind-body practice that is necessary for the greater wellbeing and emotional stability of the participants. It is a practice that ensures proper clearing of any overload of stress as well as pressure pile-up which leads to the usurping of energy, negativity, and below-the-per performance. Leading benefits according to Philo et al., (2020) of meditation include gaining new perspectives to avoid negative situations, building on one’s skills to grow, and increasing one’s self-awareness levels. He suggests the need for focusing on the present moments, bolstering creativity and imagination, and most crucially, increasing on one’s levels of tolerance, sensitivity, and patience.
Journal Entries
Lumma, Kok, and Singer (2015) seek to understand whether meditation is relaxing with view to the consideration of heart rates, variability of heart rates, and the types of training necessary for undertaking successful meditation. Lumma et al., state that the mind-body practice of meditation induces a state of relaxation to both the mind and body leading to physical and psychological stability. It is a deliberate mental exercise that is considered as a mental task that needs regular training, psychological preparation or awareness as well as overall effort. This journal article surmises that the associated cardiovascular effects of meditation vary depending on the extent of preparation hence a different degree of self-introspection (Lumma et al., 2015). Some qualities that need to accompany the mind-body practice of meditation include observation, cognitive awareness, and loving-kindness. Good breathing has to be exercised as well continuous mental training for purposes of increasing one’s stamina as far as meditation is concerned.
Philo et al., (2015) observes that meditation involving controlled thought processes, regular heart rates, and a normal introspection serves to promote loving-kindness. That requires a lot of training for one to attain the desired level of self-confidence, increased objectivity, and remove any biased or subjective experience that might hinder self-discovery. This encourages a greater observance of a coordinated mind-body meditation practice right from a young age thus lead to the greater arousal of the senses, improve on the levels of compassion of those engaging in the exercise, and even introduce new meta-cognitive capabilities or capacities (Philo et al., 2015). Moreover, psychological arousal has been cited to require a lot of adaptability, change of the breathing, and facilitate the understanding of each context meditators find themselves.
In the realm of academic well-being, meditation as a mind-body practice serves to bolster the teaching experiences as well as the greater practicality of real-life learning (Ziaian, Sawyer, Evans, & Gillham, 2015). It is considered as an important exercise the leads to broader creativity or adoption of more creative avenues to acquire knowledge. Apart from students, academic staff are equally encouraged to practice meditation mindfulness in their learning, reading, and teaching exercises thus contribute to the well-being of their staff members. Teachers could engage in the active recruitment of partakers thus increase the level of awareness of mindfulness meditation, introduce sessions, and even conduct regular interviews amongst learners. Such interviews would be avenues to determine how there is awareness if mind-body practice of meditation, staff officials partaking in mindfulness meditation, mental wellness practices. In summary, this work suggests that meditation is a crucial learning tool that contributes to creativity, effective learning, and quality teaching in any learning environment.
In the “New Energy Geographies: A Case Study of Yoga, Meditation, and Healthfulness” under the reputable Journal of Medical Humanities, meditation is considered vital alongside yoga (Philo, Cadman, & Lea, 2015). It is even advised that it be practiced early in the morning as the day begins and made a routine with yoga. The benefit according to this journal article is that the two activities ensure that even in an environment with diverse energies, it is possible to nurture, maintain, and prevent any loss of thoughts or thought processes to negative energy. That means meditation has been found to be a new energy realm that leads to in-depth personal understanding, understanding space and time, engaging in ‘energy talk’, and change of lifestyle to the betterment of participants. The study is based on the averaged findings of practitioners that cited energy-based meditation as the basis of their smooth flow of thought processes, knowledge processing, and positivity in dissemination of positive thoughts.
Conclusion
Engaging in a beneficial meditation calls for choosing a quiet spot, loosening up, and leaving out any technological devices while closing one’s eyes accompanied by deep repeated breaths. Body-mind practice through meditation is a tool through which intruders can be kept at bay hence enabling personal patience, concentration, and actual inner introspection. Leading benefits according to Ziaian et al., (2015) of meditation include gaining new perspectives to avoid negative situations, building on one’s skills to grow, and increasing one’s self-awareness levels. meditation has been found to be a new energy realm that leads to in-depth personal understanding, understanding space and time, engaging in ‘energy talk’, and change of lifestyle to the betterment of participants. Conclusively, this paper proposes that meditation be considered as a crucial learning tool that contributes to creativity, effective learning, and quality teaching in any learning environment amongst the learners, teachers, and staff. Conclusively, this paper proposes that meditation be considered as a crucial learning tool that contributes to creativity, effective learning, and quality teaching in any learning environment amongst the learners, teachers, and staff.