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A Simple Meditative Technique that will Ground You.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Meditation does not have to be difficult or complicated.  It can be simple and effective too.  Many times the people who teach meditation to help with reducing stress teach techniques that are difficult to learn and take time to learn.  Sometimes the teaching requires the teacher to help the person learn over an extended period of time.  While there is nothing wrong with this type of approach, meditation does not have to be complicated.  It can be simple and effective.  The following technique is simple and very effective.

1.  Find a chair where you can be comfortable.

2.  To the best of your ability make sure that you will not be interrupted.

3.  As you sit in the chair merely allow your body to begin to relax.  As you feel comfortable, let your eyes close slowly and naturally.  As your eyes close let your body relax even more.

4.  As you are beginning to slowly relax your body, let your awareness and attention to your butt.  Feel  your butt sitting in the chair, feel your butt against the seat of the chair.  And stay with this feeling for a moment.

5.  Now feel your back, feel your back resting against the back of the chair.  And stay with this feeling for a moment.

6.  Feel your arms, perhaps as they are resting in your lap or on the arms of the chair.  And stay with this feeling for a moment.

7.  Now feel your feet, feel your feet resting against the floor, feel the soles of your feel touching the floor.  And stay with this feeling.

8.  Now feel your entire body resting in the chair, feel your butt, your back, your arms and your feet, feel your entire body relaxing in the chair.  And stay with this feeling for a moment.

9.  As you are feeling your entire body relaxing in the chair, just let yourself move deeper into relaxation.  Move your awareness to your entire body as you move even deeper into relaxation.

10.  When you feel ready, allow yourself to come back, to come back to the present.  Open your eyes and go about your day.

To make this experience even more powerful you could use therapeutic relaxation music.  The music will help you to relax even more.

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The Meditative Practice of Staying Present to the Now

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

The meditative process of practicing staying present to the Now is as follows:

1. Take a comfortable position in an upright sitting position.

2. Allow your legs and arms to be open.

3. Allow your eyes to focus upon a chosen object. The chosen object could be a candle light in a darkened room or any point that you choose.

4. As you focus on the chosen object, allow your muscles to slowly relax from the top of your head to the tips of your toes.

5. Take three slow deep breathes in through your nose as you inhale. Hold each breath to the mental count of four. Slowly exhale each breath out through your mouth. Continue to breath at a slow pace after the three breaths.

6. Continue to focus on the chosen object. When your mind wanders to some thought or thoughts slowly and gently bring it back to your focused concentration upon the chosen object. Simply let go of the thoughts that arise. The thoughts are from the past. Stay focused to what is so.

7. Continue the practice for a prescribed period of time and then go about your daily activities. Each day that you practice you may even choose to lengthen the time you spend with this technique.

This process of meditation can be enhanced by the use of relaxation music.  The music will assist you in relaxing your body as well as your mind.

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Nite Rain, a Composition for Relaxation and Reducing Stress.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

When I started out in counseling I practiced a great deal of hypnosis.  I also used music in the trance and hypnosis work.  The music I used was not mine initially.  When I got the idea to create and use my own music I created Nite Rain.  It was the first composition that I used in counseling and the practice of hypnosis.

Since I created Nite Rain years ago I have always wanted to release it again given the advancements that I have made in recording and editing.  This I have done now and have released it on Itunes.  I hope that people enjoy it and find it as relaxing as I do.

Since the original release of Nite Rain I have created several other relaxation music compositions, all designed for helping people to relax and reduce the stress of living. All of these compositions can be found on Itunes now.  The music that I have created can be used for a variety of things creating a general state of relaxation, meditation and reducing stress.

A Meditation Exercise for Reducing Stress!

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing would like to announce the release of a very special Meditation Exercise for Reducing Stress.   Enhanced Healing – A Meditation Exercise for Reducing Stress is a very effective exercise for assisting you to relax and as a result reduce your daily stress.  The effectiveness of the exercise comes with repeated use and practice.

The key to meditation and relaxation is to present yourself to the now, and your breathing is the key to this process.  Enhanced Healing – A Meditation Exercise for Reducing Stress gives you a process to practice to achieve this.  One of the tracks to this album also has positive affirmations for helping your to relax.

Positive Affirmations that support Relaxation!

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Positive affirmations can help a person to transform his or her life.  Positive affirmations can also help to support a person’s achieving a deep state of relaxation.  Below are ten positive affirmations for helping a person to relax and experience a sense of serenity.

I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.

I accept and enjoy the moment, I live in the present.

I am safe and protected at all times.

I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

I trust the process of life.

I am perfect, whole and complete.

I breathe slowly and deeply.  I am relaxed.

With each breathe that I take I become more and more relaxed.

I forgive myself and others and I set myself free from the past.

Positive affirmations can be even more effective when combined with therapeutic relaxation music.  The relaxation music creates an audio space for the affirmations to be fully accepted by a person’s mind.

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Positive Affirmations for Letting Go of Smoking.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Positive Affirmations can help to support your desire to give up smoking, to be done with in your life.  Below are listed 10 positive affirmations for supporting effort be recover from smoking.

1.  I always take good care of myself.

2.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

3.  I breathe slowly and deeply.

4.  I enjoy the feeling of breathing clean, fresh air.

5.  I joyously release the past.  I live my life in the present moment.  I am at peace.

6.  I shoose to be healthy and to treat my body with complete respect and love.

7.  I choose to breathe clean, fresh air into my lungs.

8.  I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.

9.  With each breathe that I take of clean, fresh air I become more and more relaxed.

10.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

Part of the work of letting go of smoking is to improve your self image, learn to relax, and let go of the past and the stress that gets generated.

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