Guided Meditation is the process whereby one or more participants meditate in response to guidance provided by trained practitioners or teachers, either directly or via written text, sound recording, video, or audiovisual media consisting of music or spoken instruction, or a combination of both.
In early 2010, hypnotist Jacqueline Campenelli was the first known person to combine isochronic or binaural beats and frequency with self-hypnosis/meditation guided through words.
This process often leads to participants involved in visualization and generates mental imagery that can simulate or re-create sensory perceptions of views, sounds, tastes, odors, movements, and touch-related images, such as texture, temperature, and pressure, as well as content mental imaginations experienced by participants as opposed to conventional sensory categories. The formation of such mental images can precipitate or accompany emotions or strong feelings.
Practitioners or teachers who facilitate guided meditation often encourage participants to document their experiences, most often in the form of a journal or diary of self-reflection. In addition to recording their experiences from guided meditation sessions, individuals may also document unwanted negative or annoying negative images over time, which are common occurrences among those with conditions including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and social anxiety.. They can also document positive images that are deliberately generated when practicing their own techniques originally learned from practitioners or teachers. Over time, this documentation can provide information and insight into the participants' physical and mental states, contributing to the formulation of a therapeutic care plan.
The term "guided meditation" is most often used in clinical practice, scientific research, and scientific inquiry to mark the aggregate of integrated techniques. The most common and often used combinations or syntheses consist of meditation music and receptive music therapy, guided imagery, relaxation, some forms of meditation practice, and journals. Hypnosis or hypnotherapy procedures can be included as part of the intervention. Psychotherapist Michael D. Yapko has shown remarkable similarities between hypnosis procedures and guided meditation procedures.
Researchers, physicians, and study authors often analyze and discuss the effects and efficacy of this intervention as a whole, with results often difficult to link positive or negative results with any of the specific techniques that contribute to guided meditation. Furthermore, the term "guided meditation" is often used interchangeably with the terms "guided imagery" and sometimes with "creative visualization" in popular psychology and self-help literature, and to a lesser extent in scientific and scientific publications. Consequently, understanding the nature, scope, application, and limitations of guided meditation requires it to be considered in context and in relation to some techniques that are an integral part of its practice, allowing variations in terminology.
Guided meditation as an aggregate or synthesis of techniques including meditation music and receptive music therapy, guided imagery, relaxation, meditative praxis, and diary recordings or self-recording have proven effective in accelerating therapeutic, rehabilitative, and educational benefits when used in addition to clinical strategies and primary instructional, including as a means to lower stress levels, minimize the frequency, duration, and intensity of asthma episodes, control and manage pain, develop coping skills, improve the ability to perform demanding tasks in demanding situations, reduce insomnia, reduce feelings of anger, reducing the incidence of negative or irrational thinking, alleviating anxiety, increasing the level of optimism, improving physical and mental intelligence, and increasing the general sense of well-being and self-reported quality of life.
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