Adding Meditation to your PT Sessions Charge Extra or Provide Extra Value

  

Meditation may bring your clients huge benefits, from relieving stress, helping recovery, bringing forward lost memories, or helping them make important decisions. The act of meditation is not always about emptying your mind. But bringing all your focus to bear unto one subject. Thus if your clients goal is to lose weight, meditating on weight loss, and everything that will help in achieving this goal, is a powerful assistance and one that will cost you nothing but is something which can add extra value to your sessions or something for which you can charge extra for. It will be a worthwhile investment to study as much as you can all the aspects of meditation. For an introductory understanding follow this simple guide on how to meditate. Meditation should not be confused with relaxation. You will be relaxed, but it is deeper than that. Proper meditation is like an act of prayer that helps to realign your goals, and your values. Whenever your client needs answers, to overcome negative emotion, or just to discover new ideas  just give them the simple guide below to follow:

 

The 12 Steps to Meditation

1. Choose a location free from any distractions, including TV and the Internet
2. Either have some soothing music in the background or no music at all
3. Select a comfortable place to sit, a good option is putting a cushion on the floor and sitting against the wall
4. Close your eyes gently
5. Breathe in, slowly
6. Breathe out, slowly
7. Concentrate on your breathing, notice each breathe in and out
8. Be aware of feeling relaxed and the feelings of warmth spreading through your body
9. Be aware of what you want to meditate about, allow the subject to come forward
10. Allow any thoughts relating to your subject to come and focus on them, any other thoughts allow to simply pass through your mind
11. Open your eyes once you feel relaxed and you feel good that you have exhausted every thought about your subject
12. Take 5-10 minutes twice a day to meditate. You may meditate for as long as you can or need to, but 5-10 minutes is a good start

 

Meditate, Meditate, Meditate

If your clients can follow this simple guide on how to meditate they could find it helps improve many areas of their lives, if they have a lot of anxiety or stress simply meditating once in the morning and then not giving it another thought all day is not good enough, so it is important to teach them to give it a good effort, I would say at least 5 times a day, then instruct them to act on their meditations and not to simply think about them, this is the true power of meditation- when you act on it. The dictionary definition of Power is the ability to act or do. And where as you will receive great benefit from meditation, the true success that will come from meditation is your will and ability to act on the subject of your mind.

Simple Ideas for Meditation

Below are a collection of ideas that may help you instruct your client

• Try sitting in different positions; on your knees, cross-legged,  Seiza (Seiza (正座, literally "propersitting") is the Japanese term for one of the traditional formal ways of sitting in Japan.)
• If you have access to a park or the countryside sit and meditate near birdsong, or where you will be able to hear the wind through the trees
• If you live in the City, listen to the hustle and bustle. The sound of people and cars. Pick out certain sounds and hear new ones to help you focus
• Find a tape of running water to listen to
• Go to the sea or the local pool and let the water relax you and guid your meditation
• Hold an object that will help you direct you meditation to your chosen subject

Meditation takes concentration - and daily meditation will strengthen this valuable skill.