Stress
Management Training courses | Relaxation and Meditation
Our teachers will share with you easy to practice styles of meditation which will re-energise your team, enhance creativity, develop a sense of calm and lower stress levels. The sessions include meditation instruction, participation in a guided visualisation or deep relaxation style meditation.
This class shares in a 'normal' meditation style with no requirements or links to any particular spiritual background. The style of meditation we employ is suitable for everyone.
The key to meditation is relaxation, to calm down the senses. A gentle relaxation technique is always a good preamble to meditation, and something involving the breath is even better.
Try out this simple breathing exercise:
Relax - Go on - Just do it!
Sit
in a comfortable position with your back straight to help you achieve a sense
of poise and alertness.
This also helps you breathe well and prevents the mind from becoming sleepy.
Now simply turn your attention to your breathing.
Breathe naturally, preferably through the nostrils, without attempting to control your breath.
Let yourself become aware of the sensation of the breath as it enters and leaves the nostrils.
This breathing sensation acts as a focus to relax.
If you find your mind wanders off, just return your focus to the breath.
After
a few minutes practising you will be ready to move onto your meditation.
Meditation is the deepest and most effective way to 'let go.
The
physical effects of meditation are tremendous as more and more doctors prescribe
meditation as a way to lower blood pressure, improve exercise performance in people
with angina, help people with asthma breathe easier, relieve insomnia and generally
relax the everyday stresses of life. Meditation is a safe and simple way to balance
a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. It is simple; but meditation
is an amazing way to transform your life!
Dr
Craig Hassed, senior lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing
& Health Sciences at Melbourne's Monash University, says:
"Meditation is a great adjunct for a lot of things, from chronic pain to improving sleep, helping reduce blood pressure and coping with stress, anxiety and depression."
"A growing number of corporations, including Deutsche Bank, Google and Hughes Aircraft offer meditation classes to their workers. Making employees sharper is only one benefit; studies say meditation also improves productivity, in large part by preventing stress-related illness and reducing absenteeism"
