Lately, I’ve been using dynamic meditation as a way to relieve stress and I must say . . . it works!

As you know, meditation is rooted in Buddhist and Hindu practices. Kundalini meditation is similar to dynamic mediation, but it’s not quite the same. I first began to learn about dynamic mediation on the internet.

Bahgwan Shree Osho Rajneesh (December 1931-November 1990) is the creator of dynamic meditation. It’s an effective method of uprooting repressed emotions or unwanted energy and then releasing it. It’s like a quick pick me up, if you’re able to maintain yourself in a small space. For your first time, try to complete the exercise when you’re alone or maybe with a leader whose familiar.

When practicing dynamic mediation respect the body, space, property and belongings of yourself and others around you. Practicing this particular meditation in public could alert others and make them feel afraid, uncomfortable or concerned. This is not an opportunity to physically or mentally harm others, under any circumstances.

Dynamic mediation is a physical psychotherapeutic exercise used for stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. This is a courageous effort to move the negative energy out of our body and in turn—out of our life for good!

First Stage

Stand up straight with your legs shoulder width apart. Make sure you have enough space to move your entire body. For this stage of the exercise, breathing is everything. Focus on your breathing during the first stage. You’re going to keep changing the way you breathe every time you take a breath. Don’t breath the same. Change your breathing pattern and make them deep, quick breaths through your nose. Exaggerate the exhalation from your nose. Give it all your energy! Give in completely to your breathing. Notice what you feel when you change your breathing and make it erratic like that. How does your back feel? What about your chest? How is your body responding to the sudden change? If you feel a cramp, out of breath, if you’re sweating, or feeling winded, than you’re doing it right! Soon you will be ready to move on to the next stage. Feel everything from the inside out. This stage is supposed to take place for 10 minutes.

Second Stage

Allow all of your emotion to pour out of you. Let your body be free, but stay in the perimeter, room or private space. Expose your emotions. Any emotion. This is a free space to behave and say what you wouldn’t in front of other people. Channel your feelings into body language and make sounds that express your feelings. It can be verbal or nonverbal expression (such as a grunt or a scream). If you’re able to be as loud as you want to be than do it. Let your feelings take over. Don’t hold back. Allow your emotions to change. Don’t feel self-conscience about your movements, the sounds your making or the things you’re saying. Don’t let your mind make you feel like you need to behave yourself. Don’t think too hard about your feelings, express them as they come and change. Do everything from the inside out. Just let it flow. You have total free expression during this stage, let it be from your heart. Any emotions that you’ve been holding, which feel like weights, let them out. Nobody’s looking at you. Cry if you need to cry, sing if you want to sing, throw your arms in the air, sit with your legs folded in front of you, whatever you want to do. Just don’t hurt anyone or be destructive. Nothing dangerous. You’re able to throw a fit though. Pay attention to your emotions. Focus on them. This stage last 10 minutes. (If you end up in a seated position you have to stand back up for the third stage).

Third Stage

Close your eyes were you stand with you legs shoulder width apart like in the beginning stage. Start hopping up and down, not too hard—hence the word hopping. Unlock your knees for jumping and land on your feet flat—as opposed to your tippy toes. You will be doing several light jumps back to back, continuously. Keep going for ten minutes chanting the sound “whooo” whooo” ( you can do this without a loud sound if needed, but still use your breath to whisper or breathe out the sound). It’s important to do the chanting, it is the way to push the negative energy out through your airway passage. This isn’t worship, calling out names or anything pertaining to religion. This is only for your exercise and well-being. Do this stage of the exercise in 15 minutes.

Fourth Stage

Stand completely still with both your arms raised, eyes closed still observing your thoughts, feelings and everything you hear going on around you. Stand as stiff as a board or a planted tree. Don’t scratch an itch, don’t move a pinch, except your breathing. You’re chest is moving up and down. That’s it. You should be standing in your beginning stance with both your hands above your head, reaching upward. Notice the way the physical body feels. Be mindful at this stage. Try to acknowledge every sensation and everything around you with your eyes still closed. Do this stage of the exercise in 15 minutes just like the third stage.

Fifth Stage

Now move into a dance, a feel good dance. Do a real feel good dance, even if it’s stupid. If you like to jump high, then do it, if you like to spin around in circles. This isn’t dance practice. You don’t have to look perfect and nobody’s watching. You may add music to this stage because it’s appropriate. Having fun with it is the purpose of the fifth stage. Do a dance that feels good to your body. Do this for 15 minutes as well.

Well . . . that was it!

How do you feel? . . .

I hope you feel great and energized!

Now that you’ve read what I know about dynamic meditations, here is the link to the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/bRXcbXnLwvM

See for yourself. I enjoy it. If it’s not for you, I understand. I just thought I’d push it out there for those in need of a relief that’s non-toxic and non-worship.

Health Benefits of Dynamic Meditation

• Good physical exercise
• Connects the mind, body and spirit
• Emotional Release-catharsis (release repressed emotions)
• Useful breathing technique
• Lowers stress (cortisol) levels

Well, until next time . . . take care my internet family! This is Truly K. Bradley signing out.

Related links:

https://youtu.be/C7TEjKE0Vuc 

https://youtu.be/0HUrWofjyVs

Hi everyone,

Today, I’d like to talk to you about the thoughts that have been going through your mind. You know, your inner most private thoughts. Don’t worry! You can keep your secrets. I just want to encourage you to think happy thoughts everyday. I often times hear the term ‘positive self-talk’ used to describe the process of streaming positive judgments of ourselves through our mind. I’d love to share with you some of my own personal lessons and useful tips I’ve learned along the way.

There was a time in my life when I did nothing, but go to college and party with my friends. It wasn’t anything that we consumed that gave us that free spirit everyday, that eagerness to spent each happy moment with each other. It might have been the fact that I had good friends or the period of time in my life where I had no real responsibilities or maybe I had a love for life and its endless possibilities. Whatever it might have been, I remember always feeling as light as a feather.

Sure enough, the party ended and I grew up. The feeling that I could live that way forever, unfortunately, ended too. Yet . . . I want it back. I do, I do. I want it back! The joy of the good old times. The happiness of it all! I want to feel it again! I want to feel like life is a party again. I want to feel it in my bones again, without drugs or alcohol, without a crutch.

I believe we have to install positive thoughts into our minds in order to become positive people. Not that superficial crap either, real positivity. The goodness of life. Some people would say that’s being strong. I can understand how they could say that, can you? It’s okay if you can’t. We all have different opinions. I used to think differently too. Yet, what I’ve learned is that being strong is the opposite of what I used to think it was. I used to think it meant never backing down from a fight. Sticking up for myself and getting the last word. However, as I grew older, I realized I was sadly mistaken. Strong is being the kind of person who doesn’t respond with negativity. The resilient one will persevere because they have learned or they’re learning how to deal with circumstances. They’re not judging other’s actions either. They’re taking the hand that was dealt to them and doing the best they can with it. I learned to preserve by living and dealing with my own problems better than I did as a foolish child.

Again, to be positive we have to think positive thoughts. Our thought process makes up our personality and attitude. Yet, I don’t think we were always taught how to have a good attitude, we were just supposed to have one. ‘Positive self-talk’ wasn’t emphasized enough. It’s the very basics of how to have a good attitude. Our self-talk determines how we embrace life.

It seems that people practice pretending everything is okay and under control when it’s not. We don’t always know how to take care of our mental health and there’s so much stigma around seeking or needing professional help. Yet, everyone could use a little help with depression, stress, anxiety, lonely, pain and hurt. Figuring out and interpreting the source of our negativity can be good too. Then we have a place to start and our problems are at least identified. Then we can take the necessary steps to fix our problems, so that our minds can be free.

Ever heard someone say, ‘don’t be so hard on yourself?’ They were talking about yourself-talk or self esteem, which can also be one in the same. Everyone has negative self-talk, even though they won’t admit it. We all have it and the smartest people have learned not to bask in it. I’d try to keep my mind positive, clean and free of harmful perceptions.
Have you ever considered the kind of molecular energy they’re releasing into the universe with their emotions or the emotions that you impel in others? Whatever fills our minds becomes our world, our reality. We breathe life into whatever we believe and whatever we send out is what we’ll receive back too. When we get rid of our negativity, then we can share our joy with people we love.

Ways to Clear Your Mind

Find a peaceful, happy, inspiring or meaningful noun (a person, place or thing/object/ideology) and stay close to it, stay inside it, engage with it and interact with or in it. I think this helps people get back to their purpose and realizing what is important to them instead of getting caught up in the stress, the hard work, unpleased or compromising dilemmas or situations.

Relax! Take a time out. Rest. Have a ritualistic moment of not worrying, not caring, not thinking about what everyone else seems to think is important or what is having too much power in your life beside you. Take a load off and realized that you deserve a break. Mediation, exercise or chanting into relaxation is necessary sometimes.

Engage in a good or humorous conversation with someone who has a good attitude (most of the time . . . they’re only human)

Exercise your mind and body to change your spirit from bad to good. Read what’s interesting to you and engage in what’s harmlessly entertaining to you. Work out your
body on a schedule. Practice something that produces good health measures for the body and mind.

Play, laugh and joke. Play around with people without cruel intentions. Play a game with others and strategize winning. Believe you are capable of winning.

Plan ahead. Plan something fun, meaningful, or a good-natured activity to celebrate life and all the good contributions that you’ve already accomplished, ones you take for granted everyday. Follow through with your plans and stay on it. Most importantly motivate people to join you in your decision to have a good time, no matter what. You have to be realistically happy and a little energetic or upbeat. Incorporate time to have fun in your life. Enjoy people you love and those you spend time working with in an environment. Plan on spending time with people and pushing for good vibes and positive energy. Look forward to these experiences, and don’t be discouraged if they don’t always happen, just keep pushing for fun times with people throughout your life. You have to be positive in order for them to want to be around you. Meeting new people can be starting new beginnings. Do and say good things to people to promote positivity. Hope for a positive experience and build your spirit enough to be able to endure a bad experience. Don’t reflect, instigate, or encourage the negative. Get away from all that. Leave it behind.

Keep it 100% with yourself!

Our positive self-talk should be honest and never an illusion of how we want things to be so we pretend that’s what it is. NO. We should also never have happiness at the expense of others. Positive self-talk is a personal strategy use to take care of our own mental health.

According to Psychology Today, it is important to strive for positive thought in negative or compromising circumstance in order to proceed forward. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hope-relationships/201605/the-power-positive-self-talk

Health Benefits of Positive Self-Talk

Eustress (‘good stress’ that’s interpreted as being beneficial, productive or motivational)

Boast of Confidence & Self-Esteem

Personal Growth

Emotional Regulation

In order to think positive you must practice it every single day!

Try this . . . right now. Pick up a pen and jot this on a pad or make a strong mental note.

Write 10 affirmations

which are also truths . . .

1.) I love myself

2.) I’m worthy of being loved

3.) I’m able to circulate love (give it, receive it and keep it flowing)

4.) I’m an honest person

5.) I may be down, but I can pick myself up again

6.) I’m kind

7.) I’m capable of changing myself

8.) I’m capable of changing the world

9.) I have mind control and all else will follow

10.) I’m strong

You control your mind and your situation. Well . . . that’s all I have for now . . . until you read again, remember to love yourself and be good to yourself. Blog to you next time. This is Truly K. Bradley . . . signing out.