Our Take On Meditation | Creative Vibes Solutions

WHY MEDITATION?

Meditation supports feeling stable

while going through change

The world is changing at an unprecedented speed, people are facing personal and professional challenges like never before.

A healthy diet, regular exercise, group activities

and the regular practice of meditation

are indispensable tools for coping over the next decade.

Humans are designed

to live in communities

Unstructured communication via devices and social media is a new way of interacting, it causes a lot of people to feel isolated and disoriented.

Meditation is a way to settle the brain and re-synchronise, although we recommend that even with a regular meditation practice, people participate to group activities such as team sports, sign up for classes, join a public speaking club, attend events, presentations and conferences, connect with neighbours, have proper family meals, spend time getting to know their colleagues personally etc.

Humans are designed

to live surrounded by nature.

The harmony of landscapes, the beauty and the scent of plants keep people in balance.

The songs of birds entrain the brain to joyfulness & growth.

The sound of the wind in the trees is therapeutic.

Nature produces its own symphony creating harmony.

Shepherds spending most of their time on a mountain with animals, contemplating landscapes, would have healthy brain. If you are not so lucky to have this lifestyle, meditation is one of the solutions for the shortfall of connection with nature & natural ways of living.

Humans spend

an excessive amount of time

on screens and devices

Technology in incredibly valuable and can change people's lives for the better, however, it requires discernment and maturity for the use & a daily cap on the amount of time spent.

Notifications need to be kept under control.

Meditation can participate in restoring the brain functions that have been depleted by overuse of technology.

WHAT DOES IT DO?

Meditation slows down the brain, it brings calm, focus and clarity.

This alone enables better decision making and stress reduction.

Meditation reverses the effects of excessive use of technology on the brain (short attention spam, memory loss, anxiety, food cravings, poor sense of direction, shrinking pre-frontal cortex, hyperactive amygdala etc) although we insist that good nutrition, time spent in nature and quality time spent with other humans are also fundamental to a full recovery.

Meditation also has other well publicised benefits for health improvement.

The effects on the brain have been validated by science as a result of the Dalai Lama encouraging monks to take brain scans to prove effects scientifically

and as a result promote mediation based on tangible results.

Side note:

we don't think that a regular intake of mushrooms

or any other controlled substance just repairs everything.

MYTHS & TRUTHS

MYTH:

Meditation is in the lotus position or at least sitting down

TRUTH:

People can mediate sitting down in public transport, lying down, standing up, or while walking (focusing on the sensations in the sole of the feet as you walk).

Meditation even includes dance in the Osho tradition!

You can meditate when you eat, focusing on the sensations

in our tasting buds, it is called conscious eating.

MYTH:

People close their eyes to meditate

TRUTH:

In the Tibetan tradition, meditation is with eyes open, just softening the gaze a bit lower.

Most people retain their focus in meditation significantly better if they keep their eyes open.

MYTH:

Mindfulness = meditation

TRUTH:

Mindfulness is being fully present and focused.

With sufficient meditation and self awareness practice, you can retain mindfulness (and its cohort of benefits of lower stress, better clarity, heightened intuition and emotional intelligence) all day long.

This does not mean that you would be in a meditation session all day,

it just means that the benefits of meditation have been acquired solidly.

Meditation is slowing down the brain to a frequency between 4 and 12 cycles per second.

MYTH:

Meditation is silent

TRUTH:

In the Kundalini tradition, repeating mantras is fundamental to the meditation practice.

The Buddhist tradition sometimes include the use of mantras.

People can practice meditation with positive affirmations

or voicing gratitude too.

MYTH:

Meditation requires 20 to 40 minutes

TRUTH:

The benefits come from regularity: optimal results are obtained through meditating 3mns. 3 times a day:

- first thing when you wake up

- before lunch (or any time you have 3 minutes)

- last thing before sleep

All you need 9mns in 3 slots daily

Although you may chose to stay in meditation longer

for specific purposes such as spending time

visualising success

MYTH:

Meditation is silencing thoughts or focusing on your breath

TRUTH:

Meditation is whatever you want: making positive visualisations about your day, practicing gratitude, sending love to someone or to yourself, connecting to a situation through detachment for clarity, tuning into your body to check which part is relaxed and which part is tense, what needs a stretch, which organs feel healthy and which organs would like a detox or want attention.

There is no limit to what meditation can be and we want to teach people to use meditation to cover career success, empowerement, connection with others, oneself and nature, healing, learning to put things into perspective and more. We create custom based on specific client needs.

We want to give everyone the opportunity to learn a repertoire that enables them

to become proficient and creative with advanced meditation techniques.

We want to empower everyone to use their intuition

to create their own optimal practice to fit their unique needs.

KEY KNOWLEDGE

FOR FASTER RESULTS

DOES EVERYONE GET

THE SAME RESULTS?

The regular practice of meditation reduces stress and brings clarity.

The reduction of anxiety combined with the better decisions enabled by the clarity and prospective makes people happier and can unleash creativity, people's emotional intelligence and intuition increase, it can sometimes get rid of some illnesses.

THE REALITY:

The above is true but there are some important factors.

1: Regularity is key, it really must be 3mns three times a day for turbo fast results

2. Some people have better ability to focus than others at the beginning. Those using guided meditation usually have very significantly more success initially

4. Meditation focused on empathy or compassion increases these qualities, meditation focused on coping with physical pain increases resilience to pain, meditation based on positive visualisations increases positive thinking, etc people will progress much faster in the areas where their have put their intention and focus during the meditation