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It is meditation which incorporates the use of guided imagery and <a href=”http://www.calmmeditation.com/meditation-information.php”>visualisation</a>. ‘Mental rehearsal’ is the term that sports psychologists use to refer to it. It is a technique used by numerous sports individuals in their quest for Gold. They are building neural pathways inside their deeper mind which actually help them to achieve.

An example to illustrate this is the 8 gold medals achieved in swimming at the Beijing Olympics by Michael Phelps. A wonderful example of Olympic achievement. He had a special ‘secret weapon’ in addition to the demanding routine and physical requirements of becoming a champion that all serious sports competitors know about. Yes, the key was putting to work the techniques espoused in in the book ‘The Secret’ and in Sandy MacGregor’s book ‘Piece of Mind’ using Guided Meditation.

In Phelps’ own words he wrote in his 2004 autobiography ‘Beneath the Surface’: “There are times in my sleep when I literally dream my race from start to finish.  I visualise to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Phelps was ‘guiding himself’ whereas CALM has pre-prepared meditations which guide you to achieve much of what you want in life.

A gentle way to be introduced to meditation is by using guided meditation. Guided meditation seamlessly leads the meditator into an experience of ever deeper states of relaxation and into Theta brainwave state in which the mind is alert and the body is completely relaxed.

Sandy MacGregor, founder of <a href=”http://www.calmmeditation.com/meditation-information.php”>CALM Meditation</a>, has taught thousands of people how to meditate properly through his guided meditation books, CDs and DVDs. There are remarkable and wide-reaching benefits such as improved health, weight control, composure, personal relationships and much more through the use of guided meditation.

Sandy has been teaching his techniques since 1989.He has personally used the practice of guided meditation found in his books and CDs to drop 49 pounds (22 kgs) of excess weight. Guided meditation helped his son save his own leg from amputation and handle asthma. These techniques were also used by Sandy, when he was handling the murder of his three children, to change feelings of hatred, anger and revenge into acceptance, love and forgiveness.

CALM utilizes the most advanced, scientific and up-to-date techniques available in easy-to-follow books, CDs, DVDs and direct downloads to your computer.

Specific meditation sessions have been designed for dealing with particular issues such as health concerns, relationship challenges and other issues and challenges that life presents. The ability to fine tune each guided meditation to your individual requirements is what makes this such a useful and practical process.

Some people do like to create their own personalised meditation sessions by recording their own voices and choice of background music. Music with a tempo of 60 beats a minutes has been scientifically shown to be most beneficial for the purpose of guided meditation. Music at 60 beats a minute, tends to make the human heart get in time with the music, which of course is the relaxed state and in turn helps to deepen the meditation experience and enhance its effectiveness.

Creative Accelerated Learning Methods (CALM) as taught by Sandy MacGregor uses the visualisation of colour to take the meditator deeply into Theta meditation. Each colour of the spectrum is visualised in turn commencing with red and on to orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, violet and so to clear colourless white light. To be scientific, every colour has its own vibration and will vibrate at its own individual wavelength within the body when being visualised. The wave length of each colour progressively decreases and therefore within the body the vibrations are becoming finer with each colour visualised. The body feels the vibration and it is this progression of fineness coming into the body (the colours) that takes you to the meditation state.

Guided meditation is best done on a regular basis for short periods of twenty minutes or so per session. Regularity is important to establish the habit. Most people begin to notice a difference in both the quality of their meditation sessions and in the results usually after a very short period of time.

Guided meditation utilises visualisation of images by using the senses – see, feel, smell, taste, hear and most important of all imagination and self talk. Everybody can visualize to create and suggest positive images! Using the mind in this way can be very powerful and yet simple to learn. Besides the many applications already mentioned, <a href=”http://www.calmmeditation.com/meditation-information.php”>guided meditation</a> is a safe and economical way of achieving relaxation, serenity and handling stress.

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