Meditation Classes & Counselling Sessions

Do you have an interest in spirituality?

Are you looking for natural ways to overcome depression or reduce stress or anxiety?

Are you interested in improving your health and wellness, or increasing your sense of happiness and peace?

Do you suffer from confusion or a lack of energy?

Would you like to learn about meditation and how to experience freedom from negative emotions?

Or,  do you ask yourself questions like:

• How are my daily stress levels affecting my health?

• What is the meaning of life?

• Who am I really?

• How can I find happiness and inner peace?

• What sort of life do I want to live?

• How can I resolve inner conflict?

• Are limiting beliefs blocking the pursuit of my goals?

Then maybe we can help!

 The Art of Letting Go and Releasing Negative Emotions

At Insight Counselling, we teach you how to let go of all the emotional baggage that has been getting in the way of doing what you want to do, enabling you to become increasingly successful at everything you do. Learning how to change from the inside out brings about lasting improvement in our lives, along with satisfaction and inner fulfillment. Rather than being locked into a cycle of holding on to limiting emotions and feelings, the methods we teach you help you learn how to let go and release these limitations and gain greater access to happiness, peace and freedom. Learning how to release negative emotions provides a fast and effective method for reducing or eradicating depression, anxiety, fear, confusion, anger or grief. It also helps one gain more energy to accomplish the goals one has in life and attain more peace and happiness.

If you are looking for ways to free yourself from unwanted patterns of behaviour, thought and feeling, then taking the time out to understand yourself and gain more inner knowledge is incredibly beneficial. Living in an incredibly fast paced world where we are constantly forcing ourselves to move more rapidly just to keep up with material development and the ever changing environment, we often overlook the very moment that offers the greatest opportunity for self recognition, which is NOW. However, if we adopt a mindset which allows us to take time to explore the inner realm or reality as though we have all the time in the world, we can avoid giving ourselves spiritual indigestion and thereby become more able to embrace truth and it's possibilities more completely.

Meditation Classes and Instruction

Insight Counselling offers a range of relaxation and meditation training programs for people interested in improving their quality of life and general health. At Insight Counselling, we teach you how to meditate and also how meditation works, in terms of it's ability to deliver many benefits to health and happiness if it is integrated properly into one's daily life as a regular practice.

There are many different types of meditation and a wide variety of meditation techniques are taught at Insight Counselling which can be used to develop a number of mental skills. Meditation practices such as Mayahana methods to improve concentration, increase love, compassion and wisdom, mindfulness meditation and healing meditation address common emotional struggles and health issues people experience in daily life. By engaging in the appropriate meditation technique, it is possible to cultivate a longer attention span, develop emotional stability, gain greater understanding and empathy towards the feelings of others and learn how to release oneself from the constraints you place on your own happiness. Meditation also plays an important role in the process of healing mind and body.

Meditation CD Programs

Insight Counselling offers a series of meditation cds and training that assists in the management of stress and anxiety and acts as a source of information and knowledge on matters concerning health and happiness, wellbeing and wisdom. The Perfect Meditation CD Program, in particular, has the ability to put you into deep meditation states while expanding your potential and helps you create lasting states of happiness that will bring you long-term benefit.

Benefits of Regular Meditation

One recent study at Massachusetts General Hospital found that 40 minutes of daily meditation appears to thicken parts of the cerebral cortex involved in attention and sensory processing. In a pilot study at the University of California at San Francisco, researchers found that schoolteachers briefly trained in Buddhist meditation techniques who meditated less than 30 minutes a day improved their moods as much as if they had taken antidepressants. (Psychology Today)

To gain an appreciation of some of the benefits to health and happiness integrating a daily meditation practice has on one's life, one may refer to studies performed on the effects of meditation which indicate the following:

• Meditation creates a unique hypometabolic state, in which the metabolism is in an even deeper state of rest than during sleep. During sleep, oxygen consumption drops by 8 percent, but during meditation, it drops by 10 - 20 percent.

• Meditation is the only activity that reduces blood lactate, a marker of stress and anxiety.

• The calming hormones melatonin and serotonin are increased by meditation, and the stress hormone cortisol is decreased.

• Meditation has a profound effect upon three key indicators of aging: hearing ability, blood pressure and vision of close objects.

• Long-term meditators experience 80 percent less heart disease and 50 percent less cancer than non-meditators.

• Meditators secrete more of the youth-related hormone DHEA as they age than non-meditators.

• Meditating forty-five year old males have an average of 23 percent more DHEA than non-meditators and meditating female have an average of 47 percent more. This helps decrease stress, heighten memory, preserve sexual function and control weight.

• 75 percent of insomniacs were able to sleep normally when they meditated.

• 34 percent of people with chronic pain significantly reduced medication when they began meditating

 "Whenever the mind is focused on the here and now, cutting off the anxiety-producing inner dialogue that conjures images of past troubles or future problems, an integrated hypothalamic response that decreases the fight-or-flight response is initiated. Not only does this response short-circuit needless activation of the stress-producing sympathetic nervous system, it also yields entry into more refined control of the nervous system."
 

Medical research also shows that meditators experience many other improvements to health including:

• Premenstrual syndrome symptoms decreased by 57 percent

• A notable decrease of migraine headaches in patients suffering from migraine

• Significant reductions to anxiety and depression in sufferers of these conditions

• Patients with AIDS and cancer experiencing decreased symptoms

• A cure for insomnia in 75 percent of patients and almost 25 percent improved.

• Patients with chronic pain required an average of 36 percent less treatment

• Patients with high blood pressure recovered completely or improved
   

Source: Meditation as Medicine

Holistic & Philosophical Counselling

Throughout the ages, famous scholars, philosophers and saints have relied upon dialogue to explore the issues facing humanity with more depth, understanding and insight. Effective communication has the power to heal long standing problems and illuminate one's understanding, enabling you to consider the situation from a variety of perspectives. Regardless from where you begin your journey of self discovery and inquiry, sincere effort is rewarded through the experience of inner transformation of thought and feeling, mind and body.

The spiritual guidance, holistic & philosophical counselling, health advice and training in mental development offered at Insight Counselling helps you address your concerns and issues, enabling you to gain greater insight and ability to access the true causes of happiness and inner peace. Through a focus on dialogue we teach you how to 'let go' of unpleasant feelings, and by combining compassionate communication with listening, we help you access and develop the inner qualities and resources you need to solve problems and more effectively actualise your own unlimited inner potential.

Just as study has the power to eliminate ignorance, investigation and and thoughtful dialogue empowers those participating in this process by focusing upon the issues you choose to raise. The direction we take and therefore, the results, are yours.

Holistic and philosophical inquiry has the power to liberate you from false beliefs and assumptions, enabling you to gradually discover a more joyful experience of yourself, others and the world around you. 

How to book into a Counselling or Meditation Session

 I am located in South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, and available for face-to-face, one on one, or small group counselling and meditation sessions, telephone and online consultations. To find out more about counselling or meditation consultations, please phone or email me.