This blog is a simple guide to meditation postures that work for most people and are suitable meditation postures for beginners, as well as for experienced meditators. There are certain reasons behind traditional meditation postures but we also believe it’s about finding something that works for your body on any particular day. Try the different seated meditation postures and standing meditation postures in this blog and let us know in the comments how you get on! Let’s take a look at some of the best meditation postures.

In this blog we look at how we can use meditation for anxiety and other related sensations. Let’s begin with that word, ‘sensation’. A sensation is essentially a feeling that appears as a result of something else and we feel anxiety. It is often thoughts that lead to the feeling, but not always.

To conclude our four part series of meditation FAQ blogs with this final blog of 2021, I will give you a little personal insight into why I meditate and how you could benefit from a meditation practice for the year ahead.

In this four part blog we answer some of the most asked (and searched) questions about meditation. Although we prefer to gently suggest, rather than tell people why you should meditate, after reading this blog you may have some solid reasons to include a meditation practice in your routine.

In this four part blog we answer some of the most asked (and searched) questions about meditation. Although I prefer to gently suggest, rather than tell people why you should meditate, after reading the blogs you may have some solid reasons to include a meditation practice in your routine.

In this four part blog we answer some of the most asked (and searched) questions about meditation. Although I prefer to gently suggest, rather than tell people why you should meditate, after reading this blog you may have some solid reasons to include a meditation practice in your routine.

Reiki is a treatment Sarah offers, either as a standalone treatment or as a combination with another healing modality. But what is Reiki healing? Reiki is a Japanese energy treatment, which aids in relaxation, stress reduction and healing, both of a physical and emotional or mental nature. 

Of all the meditation and healing modalities offered at Mettitation, the Calm Birth Method and Calm Birth meditation may be considered of supreme importance. Pregnancy and labour are momentous times in life. The pregnant person goes through an incredible journey and alteration, the pregnant couple experience this together, and the new life is created and begins to experience existence. In pregnancy and labour there is much that can be done to minimise trauma and stress and to maximise the beauty and awesomeness of the experience. Healthy children and healthy parenting begins in the earliest stages of pregnancy, and the Calm Birth meditation assists in this wish. 

It’s always interesting to see which celebrities are involved in different wellness and health practices; for me this isn’t because I am particularly wowed by celebrity culture. The reason I think there’s validity in noticing wellness celebrities is that they often have access to the best of things. Their inherent privilege and comes-with-the-territory attention to maintaining health and the appearance of youth, means that celebrities can sometimes be a good gauge for what works in the wellness world. When it comes to celebrity meditation it may well be worth asking “who meditates?”, perhaps even more so if you are interested in being successful - in whatever way success is valid to you.

I didn't have teaching or guiding in mind when I committed to a daily meditation practice, I had my health in mind. I needed to maintain balance and happiness within a life that had memories of traumas and despair. With a decade of experience as a Reiki practitioner, it was simple for me to consider energy work, in this case in the form of meditation, as my most likely route to wellness.

Change is the most certain of all things; it therefore follows that aversion to change is at the root of personal human suffering. We grasp to keep hold of the things, people and situations that we attribute our happiness to and live in perpetual fear of losing these things, people and situations. Of losing our happiness.

Karma isn’t out for retribution. Many of us have come to understand the word ‘karma’ as an all knowing tally of our good behaviours and misdemeanours. We feel a sticky tug of pride when we assert that we have no need to hold onto anger, karma will deal with our aggressors.

Anxiety can be overwhelming and debilitating; by its very nature it tends to be the loudest voice in the room of our minds.However, with a mindfulness practice, we can quieten anxiety and bring more calming voices to the fore.

When I first started studying Buddhism and considering following the philosophy, I had a strong initial resistance to the idea of non-attachment, to detachment. I felt that to live detached and unmoved was a sad misuse of the wonders of human existence and I would have been right, except the concept of detachment is not this, it is not a retraction from the world, from people and experiences.

Often, kindness is mistaken for a lack of boundaries, for being a pushover, and yes sometimes when you are naturally a kind person or when you embark on a life of kindness you can end up in situations where you feel taken advantage of or where your feelings and needs have not been considered. I have definitely been there myself. This is why loving oneself first is so important. Dedicating yourself to mettā towards self first and then outwardly is synonymous with setting and standing by your boundaries.

Forgiveness can be a subject that causes strong reactions; if you are someone who feels very strongly that some acts, some people, do not deserve forgiveness, ask yourself whether you feel that people have been unfair to you, that there were instances where someone else’s actions have harmed you and your immediate world. Most of us have been hurt or treated unfairly at some point, in fact some evolutionary psychologists would argue that we’re wired to see ourselves as the injured party almost always. Whether we actually were treated unfairly or whether it’s our own construct is irrelevant, the feeling that remains is the same, the belief is created, the trigger is created and the reactions occur.