How can you tell if you were really meditating?
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There are also many types of meditation including passively sitting and focusing the mind, to moving meditation involving activities such as yoga, hiking, and swimming, and there are countless forms of natural meditation involving everyday activities such as cooking, washing dishes, and even brushing your teeth for some people. Interestingly, studies have shown that when engaging in a water activity such as swimming and your head is submerged under water, your brain waves actually change from the beta waves of being awake, alert, and focused (12-30 Hz) to alpha waves (8-12 Hz) that are produced when you are awake but relaxed, such as when you are daydreaming or meditating. Studies show that alpha activity contributes to a reduction in stress, anxiety, pain, and discomfort. Theta waves (3-8 Hz) are produced by your brain during deep meditation and extreme relaxation. In general, when all your senses are consciously engaged and you are completely in the moment, there is a spiritual enlightenment that comes about in the individual that serves to eliminate suffering.
A Perspective on Healing through Emotional Trauma
Healing Is Revealing
True healing isn’t about becoming something new — it’s about uncovering the wholeness that has always lived within us. Meditation gently replaces our assumptions with truth, revealing the harmony beneath our wounds, doubts, and stories.
To heal is to become whole — not only within ourselves, but in how we experience life.
Meditation is an act of surrender to the life force flowing through all things. It invites us into the present moment, where clarity lives and where transformation begins. Through this practice, we become aware of our innate ability to heal, not from force, but from alignment.
As we sit in stillness, our beliefs begin to soften, evolve, and realign with who we truly are. Meditation also shines light on how we respond to the world — how we love, how we react, how we show up.
Healing requires tuning and re-tuning ourselves to our deepest truths:
our intentions, our core values, and our personal relationship with the Divine — whether we name it God, the Universe, or Spirit.
In stillness, we don’t escape life.
We learn how to live it whole.
Meditation: A Return to Wholeness
Meditation gives us the gift of perspective. When we’re caught in a narrow field of vision, even small challenges can feel overwhelming. We attach emotion, fear, and frustration to our experiences, and our hearts carry the weight.
Through meditation, we gently widen that lens.
We create enough space to observe without reacting — to see our struggles not as devastation, but as passing moments that do not define us. In that space, emotions begin to soften, clarity returns, and the mind is no longer ruled by urgency or pain.
Healing is the natural outcome of clear awareness.
When our thoughts become balanced and our inner compass is calm, our consciousness knows how to respond with wisdom. Meditation becomes sacred time — a protected moment when the mind, body, and soul reunite and remember their harmony.
In stillness, we don’t escape life.
We rediscover wholeness within it.
Yoga for Athletes
When we turn away from the present we often compare ourselves to others and we sometimes feel insecure and unworthy. When you can stop that thinking and follow the magnetism of the present moment, you allow yourself to begin the process of healing. Meditate so that you don't push happiness off to an ideal future. The future holds no more certainty of happiness than does this very day. Because this very day, in this very moment, is when happiness is not only possible, but real, and the minute you need something is the perfect time to use it. Meditate to change your perspective. When we focus on problems we create more problems for ourselves. When we focus on possibilities we have more opportunities. Heal through meditation by centering yourself and by finding that place of peace, power, love, beauty, light, wisdom, and purity within you that only exists when we are completely engaged in the present moment.
Daily Mental Health Check-In
Useful post meditation self assessment tool : 3 C's - Catch it, Check it, Change it
Sometimes I think I'm ready to start my day and interact with others, when really I need to spend a little more time journeying inwards. The intention of this self-assessment tool is not to be judgmental or critical - rather to serve as a gentle guide to let you know where our mind is at because it changes.