The best kind of sitting meditation for me is chanting. I experienced it for the first time in the temple in Japan where the mornings started with listening to the monk chanting for half an hour, and I just went into nothingness and got so relaxed. After a little while I began to practice chanting too both using OAM and chanting the heart sutra. I did not get good enough to get the full effect from the heart sutra but the OAM is one of my favourites. I learned to do the OAM the traditional way, where you do it in your own pace, and you deliberate start the sound in the lower belly and then move it up all the way to the head and using the belly muscles to create the sound which gives a very beautiful, unstrained sound. In addition, …show more content…
The same goes for brain wave music, except it is instrumental music in a certain frequencies, which affect the brain waves and therefore the brain waves will adapt to the music.
Breathing
Dean my trainer in Australia taught me a breathing exercise, where we over-oxygenise the body, and this has a significantly refreshing effect on the brain and the body. We only do about 20 breaths, and then we relax and often just 2-3 rounds.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
This is one of the best short-cuts to gain extra energy. It is very simple. You lie comfortably in a pressure tank (just like divers) breathing through an oxygen mask for almost an hour and the effect is remarkable. I get more energy, tensions in the body are released, the skin thrives etc. There is a lot of hissing and if you cannot abstract from it, bring your phone and listen to music.
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When having motor sensory dyspraxia, gentle oil massages preferably with essential oils are the best, and the same goes for the stretchy kind of massages with gently pressure like Maui and Balinese. When I leave after a treatment, I am so relaxed and the body work as a wholeness. I have also tried massages, where the focus is purely on pressure and massaging the muscles where there are tension and since I am under-sensitive to pain it can be tricky to realise when it gets to hard. If it is too hard my muscles tightens up, and gives the practitioner a rough time with a lot of hard work. Some years ago I had a massage where I had so many bruises on my body afterwards and especially on my buttocks, that I had problems sitting for three