About Stress Meditation
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| PRACTICES | PURPOSES | PROCESSES | PRINCIPLES |
| 'Stopping & Dropping' | Release the Stress | Recognizing the Stress | Remembering |
'Opening & Smiling' |
Rebalance the Energy | Accepting the Stress | Grounding & Opening |
'Recognizing & Accepting' |
Reduce future Stress | Understanding the Stress | Knowing & Understanding |
What Stress Meditation is.
Stress Meditation consists of 3 main practices:
* 'Stopping & Dropping'
* 'Opening & Smiling'
* 'Recognizing & Accepting'
It is for everyone due to its simplicity and has no religous agenda. No previous meditation experience is required. Only a open minded interest in releasing and reducing unhealthy stress.
What Stress Meditation is not.
It is not diverting the attention away from our inner experience, with visualizations, music, auto or hypnotic suggestion etc.
The Benefits of Stress Meditation.
There are many other types of meditation each having particular benefits. Stress Meditation gives us both the skills to release the stress we are holding, rebalance our energy and the new understandings on how to reduce future stress.
CARING AWARENESS
Stress Meditation is being more AWARE of any unhealthy stressful experiences present in the body (sensations), heart (emotions) and mind (thought/images). Then allowing the unpleasant experience to float in a CARING presence, without wanting to change it in anyway.
The Goal.
The goal of stress meditation is to hold more stressful experiences in a caring-awareness (kind-attention) so they do not cause unneccsary SELF-STRESS.
THE MANY EXPRESSIONS OF STRESS MEDITATION:
The Energy of CARING-AWARENESS:
*AWARENESS & CARING
The 1 Art of Meditation:
* Interest & Non-Judgmentness
The 2 Purposes of Stress Meditation:
* To Release Stress
* To Reduce Stress
The 3 Wise Processes for meditative insights:
* Recognizing Stress with Awareness
* Accepting Stress with Caring
* Understanding Stress with Reflection
The 4 Focused Practices for daily life:
* "Stopping & Dropping"
* "Opening & Smiling"
* "Recognizing & Accepting"
* "Inquiring to Understand"
The 5 Broader Principles to always coming back to:
* Remembering
*
Grounding
* Opening
* Knowing
*
Understanding
* The educational materials on the Caring Awareness web site are free, but not a substitute for professional care. Please copy anything that is found to be of interest.