Meditations by Dr. Silverman
Please enjoy Dr. Silverman’s meditation series that you can watch or participate in anytime at your convenience.
Invoking Protection Meditation: A more advanced meditation for those that have been practicing.
It can help with negative thoughts of anger, hatred or jealousy that consume your mind. When you are exposed to these negative thoughts and feelings, these vibrations can make you irritable or depressed. By calling your “spiritual armor” of blue light and white light can also protect you from the pull of the negative thoughts. When you feel exhausted after an argument with a spouse or friend, it’s often because your energy was drained. The vision of light helps you seal your aura, stay centered and meet all tests of patience and peacefulness.
Thought-Catcher Meditation: Oh those dreaded negative thoughts!
Consider the average person has upwards of 10,000 thoughts per day. Then consider the majority of them are negative. “I can’t” , I’ shoudn’t”. This brief meditation helps you clarify your thoughts and see them more clearly. Thus, helping you to dispose of them more efficiently.
Tinnitus Meditation:
Tinnitus is sound in the head with no external source. For many of us, it’s a ringing sound, while for others, it’s whistling, buzzing, hissing, humming, or even shrieking. The sound may seem to come from one ear or both, from inside the head, or from a distance. It may be constant or intermittent, steady or pulsating. Most tinnitus is subjective, meaning that only you can hear the noise.
While there’s no cure for chronic tinnitus, it often becomes less noticeable and more manageable over time. You can help ease the symptoms by educating yourself about the condition — for example, understanding that it’s not dangerous if no underlying conditions are present. There are also several ways to help tune out the noise and minimize its impact. For starters, the actual noise is not dangerous or life threatening but rather irritating and annoying. So if you can understand the noises origins and react in a less threatened manner, you can help calm yourself down thus dealing with the noise more effectively. This is what this meditation aims to do.
Headache Meditation:
Since stress is a common headache trigger, those not wanting to rely on pain medication have shown benefits from meditating. Meditation may inhibit the part of the nervous system responsible for stress. Frequent migraine or headache attacks can be triggered by stress, tension, and anxiety, techniques like meditation may relieve headaches by alleviating underlying stress.
People with migraines/headaches have decreased gray matter compared to people who don’t, especially in areas of the brain involved in emotion, perception, memory and decision-making, as well as executive functions like self-regulation, working memory, and problem-solving. Changes in gray matter volume in the brainstem correlate with migraine duration and attack frequency.
Neurotransmitters like dopamine, melatonin, serotonin, cortisol and norepinephrine, all of which relate to the neurologic functions affected by gray matter depletion in people with migraine/headaches, respond to meditation in ways that may counteract the adverse effects of migraine/headache. Dopamine, which is responsible for executive functions of the brain, and melatonin, the body’s sleep-wake hormone, are found to increase with meditation, serotonin activity is regulated, and cortisol and norepinephrine (the brain’s “fight or flight” chemicals) have been proven to decrease with the practice of meditation.
This meditation is esigned to help you reduce stress and focus on the pain rather than the thoughts associated with the pain.
Radiation Meditation: This meditation was a result of a collaboration between Dr. Silverman and a former patient who was suffering from a type of cancer and wanted to learn to relax themselves so they could handle the radiation treatments and overall stress of the experience more effectively. The patient tried to describe the experience in detail from the moment they arrived until the moment they were finished with a treatment. Dr. Silverman put this down in writing and recorded it. The patient credits the meditation practice for helping them to remain calm and thus heal faster.