What Meditation Can Do For You
Healing Emotions
Meditation can also:
- Improve your ability to manage your emotions diminishing anxiety, depression, panic attacks, fear and phobias
- Moderate or eliminate addictive behaviors
- Help you become happier and better able to ride the ups and downs of everyday life
- Give you the skills with which to deal with difficult people and not take things so personally
- Enjoy your busy life with renewed focus and confidence
- Become more in touch with your environment, family and friends
- Develop what might best be called 'emotional intelligence'.
Developing meditation skills is one way of also developing emotional intelligence. By meditating we learn to understand ourselves quite deeply. By spending time getting to listen to our bodies in a body scan meditation or by meditating just on the breath we tune into the bodies feelings and in other meditations watch the moods of the mind and realize all are temporary impulses which come and go. And we can target particular emotional problems - anxieties or feelings of inadequacy or unworthiness or emotional conflicts not least with our families, friends and work colleagues.
Again in Kevin Hume's workplace or small group or individual meditation courses and on his three CD set of guided meditations you can identify and learn particular meditations which enable you to target what you want to do and find a meditation that will take you there. (See Courses for You and Your Organisation, and Fantastic CDs For You)
Aggression, anger, anxiety, depression, envy, fear, grief, guilt, hate, hope, loneliness and a sense of immense grievance, pride, rejection, lies and deceit, bullying, swearing, subterfuge, suspicion, cynicism, courage and occasionally when there is justice, appreciation, joy and love. A rapid-response, quick-turnaround battlefield of human emotions firing at you when you are least prepared and feel exposed and vulnerable, naked on the field of fire without armor or means of protection. Such is life?
Well no, for there are ways to get a grip on one's destructive emotions. Some meditative techniques are of immense usefulness in giving one such armor against destructive emotions. And they lie in the realm of emotional intelligence, of uniting head and heart.
'I was sceptical to start I must admit. But I know my GP was just going spare about my stress visits all the time. I did four of Kevin's studio sessions which really tuned into my situation and gave me ways of dealing with emotional stuff I didn't have before. I feel more emotionally 'literate' somehow and seem to be seeing the doctor much less.'
Karen Zeiter, Multi-media Software Designer, Sydney.