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Meditation in Pregnancy

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

Meditation is the act of quietening your mind and centering it within you …it can be done in various ways and it is one of the most difficult task in life – taming your mind is next to impossible and meditation is the only means to it.

WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO MY CHILD OR ME?

MEDITATION is a perfect antidote to stress. Our natural being and impulse in life is to remain happy irrespective of the happenings of the world. But with time our mind gets conditioned to observe and react to the events in life whatever it may be and with time we tend to worry for the smallest of things and stress about the things that have not even occurred. STRANGE but universal, it is amazing how we all fall into this trap.

Meditation if done regularly and persistently can get us out of it. The immediate response to quietening of our mind is the fall in the heart rate, decrease in blood pressure, slowed breathing pattern, leveling of stress hormones and a feeling of peace and calm. No drug can cause such a dramatic decrease in the level of stress.
 
Meditation makes you a witness to the worldly events and not a victim of it.
It helps you to be more centered, more responsive, less reactive, more creative and less anxious. Your awareness to yourself and your surroundings increase as a result of which your baby too experiences the same effects.

You learn to live in the present moments and it allows you to accept and be aware of yourself transforming to a mother, and acknowledge the intelligence behind this creation, thus making you more dutiful towards your role as a mother and a creator.

You will experience a world of silence and learn to bask in it and also to connect to nature and the higher intelligence within it. Your baby will start his journey with this knowledge and you both will share the ultimate feeling of love and respect towards each other.

HOW TO DO MEDITATTION?

There are various ways and you can learn from the centre nearest to your residence, but we give you a few easy to practice but effective ones here.

1. Find a quiet spot in your house, preferably the same everyday at the same time, just to put you into a regular pattern.
2. Sit comfortably on the floor or the chair with your back straight and supported and your head held straight.
3. Relax and breathe slowly and normally for some time to quieten your activities. Now be an observer to your mind and see effortlessly how your mind creates and processes the patterns in your mind. Do not resist or think. Just see these thoughts come and go.
4. Slowly concentrate on your breathing. Feel it and experience it entering and leaving your body and feel the nourishment to you and your body.
5. You will experience a feeling of calm descend on you .sometimes your attention may divert to some thought or your worry. As soon as you realize it, try to shift back to being an observer.
6. After a few days when the concentration is a little better, you may start saying or mentally repeating one particular word of your choice in your mind without the use of your tongue. All the while concentrating on the spot in between your eyes.
7. Do this everyday, persistently and benefit yourself and your baby through this.
8. Sometimes you may experience yourself thinking about everything and anything, you may feel like sleeping. Do not distress and go along with your body and instincts.
9. There will be moments in meditation where you will feel a sudden gap or blankness and your awareness shifts beyond your body and your surroundings. This is higher awareness and the state where you can connect to your real being. It will give you extreme pleasure and peace.

All in all meditation will lead you and your baby to a world where you will exist in your most natural and happy form and live in this world with heightened perspective and senses, thus flowing with life without getting affected by the minor twists and turns of its flow. Give this gift to your child. It is your duty to do so.