Body Awareness Meditation

Body Awareness Meditation can be practiced at any time. You do not have to formally sit in meditation to learn how to be aware of your body. Its open-minded is to be aware of the sensations occurring in your body without influencing them with your awareness. People who practice this meditation often report a higher tolerance to pain and discomfort. It is through concentrating on your own body sensations that you build and endurance and acceptance of aches, pains and discomforts that would normally cause you stress. By focusing on your body ' s sensations and feelings, it allows you to project in the present and clears the mind of distractive rattled contemplation patterns that may be influencing your body, mind and spirit. This leads the practitioner to a greater sense of inner peace and relaxation.

Practicing Body Awareness Meditation has many beneficial effects. Some of the positive effects you can expect are listed below.

. Improving clarity and quality of life

. Greater awareness

. Physical, Mental and Spiritual Healing

. A profound sense of Peace and Relaxation

. Increase in Confidence

. Increase in Creativity

. Larger relationships

. Ability to weight negative behaviors or habits

. A greater sense of enjoyment and fulfillment in life ' s activities

. Souped up performance in your life ' s endeavors

. Preferred Concentration Skills

. Ability to endure pain and discomfort at higher tolerance levels.

. An antidote to stress

Here are the guidelines to practicing Body Awareness Meditation

1. Get yourself propertied in a chair, sitting on the flag or even standing. Don ' t wear any restrictive clothes as this will halt your meditation.

2. Close your eyes and take a few distant breathes to relax.

3. Now make by picture you minds cynosure to any pressure points. These may be footing your body is succeeding the tile or the chair or pressure on the soles of your feet as you stand.

Perceive the sensation or tangibility of pressure.

4. Now center on any areas of the body that feel relaxed.

5. Next target on any areas of the body that feel uneasy.

6. Try to behold the sensations and feelings from a non judgmental point of view, without trying to change what you are sensation.

7. If your mind starts to ramble and think of other thoughts not related to the sensations in the body. Gently attract your target back to the body after acknowledging the understanding.

8. Next systematically variation your tribute to each whereabouts of the body observing its sensations if any. Areas such as the face, kiss, shoulders, arms, hands, chest. Moving right down to your toes and just stay privy of any vibes in these body parts. You may want to haul your cynosure to temperature sensations in each void or movement sensations such as the body ' s movement during respirations.

9. It ' s important that as you heart on each area that you monitor the sensations and feelings in as much detail as possible. Debilitate your realizing processes on each area until the mind becomes silent.

10. After completing the body scrutinize, sit in silence for awhile if you inclination and then stand and stretch.

Like all disciplines, Body Awareness Meditation needs to be practiced daily to benefit from its prizes. Meditate for 20 to 30 minutes daily or if you ' re a beginner to meditation, try meditating for 10 minutes and slowly build on the time frame.

You can be aware of your body ' s sensations at anytime during the day, no matter what you are doing. It is the act of diverting your attention to just how your body is perception at that present moment. This pat act can be very beneficial when performed at regular intervals throughout your day.