Many clients ask about meditation as a relaxation tool. However, meditation is far more than that. I first learned to meditate back in 1999 when I was living and working in Sri Lanka from a Buddhist work colleague. It was an amazing experience. It was simply a relaxation technique. It had no religious content but peace, compassion and love. This is why I say meditation is more than just relaxation – it opens something up from within. Carl Jung calls it the ‘buried treasure’. You could call it the Higher Self, Superconsciousness. It has a revivifying quality to it and energises. However, you have to be careful of the techniques and teachings that come with meditation training. I recommend going to someone who knows what meditation is and has some basic techniques. For more advanced meditation training I would recommend a self-realised master. But more about that another time.
Meditation is the key to a healthy and balanced life, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
It is conscious awareness and integrated being. This is what meditation helps you become more aware of – yourself.
See it as a practice to transcend the thinking mind just like plane rises above the clouds so you can see the blue sky and sun. So the meditation technique takes you above the clouds of the mental nature of the mind so you can experience peace, bliss, calmness and oneness. This is the Presence or the peace of the real self. The calm quiet self is the real self and meditation helps you achieve that. you start with a technique and then the technique disappears and leaves you in a state of conscious awareness.
Techniques include breathing, open eye meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, visualising peaceful natural scenes of beauty and calmness.
You can find techniques on this website in the section called Relaxation Recordings.
My own method for healing work and meditation is found in my hypnotherapy page which is relaxation to reach calmer states of being in order to achieve one’s goals in life.
Enjoy the process.
© Martin Handy 2025
