Innerscapes Meditation

This exercise is not meant to diagnose or treat any medical condition. Consult with a medical professional if you believe you have a medical condition.

You will need a home blood pressure monitor or you may ask your nurse or doctor for help.

• Before you begin, take a reading of your blood pressure.

• Using the diaphragm, inhale slowly and deeply through your nose for about nine-seconds or until comfortably full. If you feel pain, you're going too fast or too harshly.

• Gently hold the breath for approximately two seconds at the natural pause that occurs after filling your lungs. • Slowly exhale through the teeth and slightly opened lips for about nine seconds or until comfortably empty.

• Repeat this sequence for three to five minutes.

• Now, take a second reading of your blood pressure.

Did your blood pressure decrease? Breathing properly is usually part of meditation. This alone has measurable effects on the body. Articles below offer a small selection of other effects meditation has on our bodies. Please conduct your own research as well.

So much fights for your attention. Television, radio, internet, billboards, people in your life, and even people on the streets constantly bombard you with information and noise. Innerscapes Meditation helps you moderate the information, manage the noise, and confidently relax into a better life.

We mostly live in a world of narrative, concepts, and symbols. We became acculturated to living this way through sociolinguistic conditioning that began in childhood. We often forget this as we age and we get distracted by the social world. If we do not take time to recharge and refresh ourselves, we lose our connection to the world. This disconnect can cause frustration or delight.

As an example, we can take two bottle caps and create a story about each and bring children to greater and greater excitement by narrating an epic battle between good and evil. And, in a way, those concepts and symbols have meaning and that meaning influences our audience. Only we ascribed narratives and abstractions to the bottlecaps and convinced our audience to get emotionally involved in our little show.

Meditation helps us move beyond the "the show" of symbols, abstractions, words, and concepts and into our immediate, unspeakable world of objects, feelings, and happenings. A relationship with the unspeakable world begins with meditation.

Meditation is a very deep and personal experience with subtleties that require personal attention and tailoring. An effective meditation coach provides tasks, conditions, and standards necessary to train your mind and your nervous system in meditative exercises and methods. An effective meditation coach is there to answer your questions. As an extreme example, my first patron was a woman who had psychedelic experiences while experimenting with meditation. She had no guidance and feared for her sanity. Her social and religious situation made it impossible for her to discuss these experiences in polite company. She met me through a networking mixer and arranged a phone call to specifically ask, “Am I going insane?” The good news, she wasn’t and I crafted a one-session solution to help her. An effective meditation coach will guide you into proficiency as quickly, smoothly, and completely as reasonably possible. Like a doctor, an effective coach will help you get you where you want to be so you can get back to your life.

An effective meditation coach will consider your goals and your situation while adapting their coaching methodology to you. Some of my patrons struggle with stress so, I include exercises that relate to stress and frame course concepts to help manage stress. Integration is an important and often overlooked phase in meditation coaching. It's difficult to get personalized integration from an app designed to generate annual subscriptions and dopamine addictions. When Chad McGehee became the world’s first Director of Meditation Training for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department, he seemed to grasp the significance of meditation and integration: “Sixty years ago, most athletes weren't lifting weights. They thought it would wear their bodies out. Now, of course, it's central to every athletic training program at every level…we'll look back in five, 10, 15 years, and training the mind in this way will be just as normal as training the body.” Mr. McGehee is in the vanguard of meditation coaches, bringing these benefits to all levels of society for those who are committed.

Mathematics was an esoteric discipline, taught by Pythagoras after years of ordeals. Now, we teach mathematics to children as part of their education and by "we" I mean most humans on planet Earth. Most will not argue against the usefulness and importance of mathematics in 2021. And, either way, most people seem to find mathematics helpful and effective in maintaining optimal adjustment to reality. It seems meditation will become part of a well-rounded education in time. Just as it is possible to teach mathematics without esoteric philosophies and binding oaths, it is possible to learn meditation without so much baggage and mystery. An effective meditation coach does all this and more!

PROVE TO YOURSELF THAT MEDITATION IS EFFECTIVE WITH THIS EXPERIMENT

A DEEPER CONSIDERATION ON MEDITATION

WHY MEDITATION COACHES MATTER

Elizabeth Monk-Turner

in The Social Science Journal found meditators had better initial conditions and more preferred outcomes with mood, drug use, stress management, and other bodily difficulties.

Colin Allen

in Psychology Today reported on neuroscientific data that shows meditators are calmer and that meditators process stress & fear more effectively than non-meditators.

Alice G. Walton

In Forbes shared data indicating meditators are less egocentric and have more interconnectivity in the brain. Evidence also supports improved stress regulation, emotional management, improved focus, and a better outlook.

ES Epel, et al.

in Translational Psychiatry demonstrated that meditation and vacation effects cellular health and diseases. More importantly, meditation provided greater benefits over the longer term when compared with taking a vacation!

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