Guided meditation, guided imagery or guided relaxation techniques, the instructor offers suggestions to guide the listener into a meditative state. Visualization practices can be similarly guided, or practiced on one’s own. The goal of these techniques can be relaxation, healing, uplifting emotions, inner peace or other desired outcomes.
The Transcendental Meditation technique is not “guided meditation” and does not depend on a CD or any outside guide. It is not a process of bringing awareness to the body or imagining a peaceful, relaxed state or particular goal in life. Although guided meditation practices may create pleasant moods or degrees of relaxation, much greater benefit comes from the process of transcending the realm of thinking and imagination.
During the TM technique the mind settles inward to experience quieter stages of the thinking process, until one transcends, or goes beyond thinking and arrives at the silent source of thought-the mind’s inner reservoir of energy, creativity and intelligence-the state of pure consciousness. Scientific research has shown this to be a unique state of restful alertness, characterized by decreased breath rate and other indicators of deep relaxation, along with heightened brainwave coherence throughout all areas of the brain.
Practices that keep the mind engaged on the more surface, active levels-using imagination and suggestion-have not been found to produce this range of effects.
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