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Understanding Meditation

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  • Carmen Vaughan

    How To Meditate, Carmen Vaughan, LCSW

    www.carmenvaughan.com  
    703-790-5139

    Carmen is a seasoned psychotherapist with over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals, couples, families and groups. After completing her graduate studies, she continued to studey family therapy, Gestalt therapy, hypnotherapy, EMDR and meditation under some of the world's most preeminent teachers and practitioners. She has a private practice in McLean, Virginia.

  • Understanding Meditation

    This short video presentation discusses and demonstrates the basics of meditation and is designed to get you started meditating quickly and easily .In clear, straight-forward language Carmen talks about the benefits of a regular meditation practice, explains why meditation works and addresses common questions and concerns people may have about starting and maintaining a regular meditation practice. A brief demonstration is included. Carmen often incorporates meditation into her work with her clients. Many of her clients have made meditation a part of their daily routine and are reaping the benefits she describes in this series of video clips.

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    Carmen Vaughan: Hi, I am Carmen Vaughan and I am here today to show you how to meditate quickly and easily. So what exactly is meditation? The most concise definition I have come across is this, meditation is consciously directing your attention in order to alter a state of consciousness. Meditation is a discipline wherein you focus your attention on an object of thought or awareness. By stopping the normal thought process and freeing the mind of its scattered thoughts and usual patterns, a different mode of thinking is achieved. Simply put, meditation is really about attention. Today I am going to be teaching you a kind of meditation called Mindfulness Meditation, there are many ways of doing Mindfulness Meditation but all of them involve two essential components.

    The first is eliminating distractions by focusing the attention on an object, a thought or awareness and that could be many things. It could be a sound or a word called the mantra. It could be your own breath, it could be visual images or symbols. The second component is relinquishing control over the process, adapting an attitude of easy acceptance. It is a good idea to keep these two things in mind when you are getting started to meditate. Now that I have talked about what meditation is, I would like to talk a little bit about what meditation is not.

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