4+ Meditation Trends to Grow and Improve Your Health

As technology has become more important in our lives, personal connections and spirituality have gone down. Connection with oneself is the first step toward meeting others’ needs for companionship. Mindfulness meditation equips you with the insights you need to find this link. With more and more people interested in meditation and other ways to be more mindful, WhichChoose has put together a list of meditation trends for this year. Click on it to read it now!

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Meditation in the Workplace

Meditation in the Workplace

Some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs have practiced meditation daily for many years. Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and Def Jam Recordings founder and businessman Russell Simmons are just a handful of highly successful people who meditate daily. The underlying reasons for their meditation are similar: to think clearly and to relieve stress.

Meditation has been shown to improve not only work habits but loyalty, communication, and happiness in the office. Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has said, “Every day, I get up at 5:30 to do my practice because I know I’m headed into a chaotic world where I’m going to hear a lot of good and bad things, and I’m going to be challenged about my own worth. Unless I can bring myself to a peaceful environment steadily and mindfully and be present at the moment– every opportunity I can, I can’t help the people around me either.”

Business leaders have brought meditation into the culture of the companies they run as well, encouraging their employees to practice meditation during the workday. LinkedIn, Salesforce, Google, Nike, Deutsche Bank, and Procter & Gamble are just a handful of the companies that offer relaxation and meditation spaces within the office.

Companies will also send their employees to workshops and corporate retreats that assist in teaching professionals how to expand their consciousness and become mindful when it comes to business practices. These retreats give them tools on how to deal with stress, how to relate to customers and make them happy, and how to clear their minds so that they may focus their energy on what is essential to growing.

We will continue to see more companies enable their employees to learn about and practice meditation this year.

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Meditation Retreats for Individuals

Meditation Retreats for Individuals

In addition to corporate retreats, there are also programs available for individuals to attend. Meditation retreats provide an environment for learning and spiritual growth. Just like there are different forms of meditation, there are also different types of meditation retreat centers. Each meditation retreat center is founded and operated according to its own set of beliefs and practices. These centers provide accommodations, healthy meals, and activities designed to achieve certain goals. Most centers provide programs for either groups or individuals.

One type of meditation retreat is a Buddhist monastery, which may invite guests to partake in their student’s teachings for a few days. In this kind of setting, you may be free to spend your time however you want, either by joining in on group activities or going off on your own to meditate and do other practices by yourself. A retreat like this would be considered an escape from daily life, to reset, if you will.

Another type of retreat is spiritual awakening and learning. A program is created and followed with a specific intent in mind. This intent could be healing, chakra awakening, or simply becoming more in tune with oneself.

Most meditation retreats have one thing in common: encouraging a path to discovery. Meditation can be practiced in a few ways, but these programs are designed to delve deeper than daily meditation and are intended to be life-changing.

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Guided Meditations

Guided Meditations

Another trend on the rise this year is guided meditation. Guided meditations are a great tool for those who may be new to meditation or for those who wish to use meditation to reach a goal or overcome a problem. Sessions are created for a wide range of things, such as mindful eating, better sleep, professional success, healing, healthy living, and more.

There are a few avenues for finding guided meditation. One option is to subscribe to a podcast. There are many available, such as The Daily Meditation Podcast and Meditation Oasis. In guided meditations, the guide softly speaks commands to calm, relax, and open the mind.

Another tool for guided meditation is Headspace. Headspace is a free app that can be downloaded onto a smartphone and used for ten minutes a day with a specific intent in mind.

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Yoga

Yoga

Yoga is a practice that has already made huge inroads into Western culture and will continue to become more and more popular. Not only is yoga a great way to exercise physiologically, but yoga is also great for your brain. During yoga practice, you become more aware of your breath, inhaling and exhaling intently. In this process, the mind calms, and it becomes a perfect time for meditation. The sequence of yoga poses, mindful breathing, and meditation, whatever the intent may be, is a trifecta of mind and body awareness.

These are four meditation trends WhichChoose want you can refer to. More people will have the chance to experience and benefit from meditation this year than ever before. This is the year to start reaping the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of meditation if you haven’t already.

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