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Our meditations
What is meditation?
Meditation is a proven practice that can help you calm your mind, reduce stress, and find inner balance. Guided meditations, in particular, are a gentle and effective way to deeply relax and consciously address various life issues.
Through sensitive verbal guidance, you will be guided step by step into a relaxed state of consciousness in which it will be easier for you to let go of old patterns, gain new perspectives and promote your personal development.
Regular meditation can support you in many areas of your life. Guided meditations help you work specifically on your desires and challenges – in a relaxed manner and at your own pace.
Why are our meditations so effective?
The meditations published by Sera Benia Verlag were developed by Seraphine Monien. Seraphine is an internationally trained meditation and mindfulness teacher and has studied the wisdom teachings and spiritual traditions of various cultures. As a spiritual coach and seminar leader, she has accompanied groups and individuals on their path of personal and spiritual development for many years.
Thanks to her expertise and experience, the meditations she has developed are unique on the market. They follow a tried-and-tested concept that ensures optimal effectiveness. As a speaker, Seraphine Monien personally guides you through the individual steps of the exercises.
The structure of each meditation includes a relaxation section in the introduction, where your body, thoughts, and feelings calm down. In the middle section, you enter a deeply relaxed state, anchoring the individual content of each meditation deep into your subconscious with appropriate self-reflective questions, positive affirmations, and strengthening impulses. At the end of the meditation, you will be gently guided back to your waking everyday consciousness.
You'll feel rested, refreshed, full of new energy and ideas for shaping your own personal life. All this is supported by a unique, finely tuned sound design that enhances the positive effects of the meditations.
How does the Sera Benia sound design work?
Our meditations and relaxation exercises not only offer valuable, verbally guided content, but also a specially developed sound design that ensures a profound and harmonizing effect.
Through a finely tuned combination of real nature sounds and healing melodies, the sounds help you slip from your usual everyday thoughts into a state of stress-relieving relaxation. The musical arrangement dynamically adapts to the content and goals of each exercise: from calming sounds for attunement to gentle deepening to activating sequences that guide you back to everyday life awake and refreshed after the exercise.
This sound concept has been proven to promote the transition between different brain waves: from the fast beta waves (38-15 Hz) of everyday life to relaxing alpha waves (14-8 Hz) to deep, meditative theta waves (7-4 Hz). This enables deeper relaxation and strengthens the regenerative effect of the exercises.
For optimal effect, we recommend listening to the meditations with headphones to fully experience the soothing sound design. Discover this unique combination of content and sound and find your very own personal retreat for body, mind, and soul.
Our meditations and relaxation exercises do not provide diagnoses, do not promise healing, and do not replace medical advice/alternative practitioners or other therapeutic treatment.
Author & Speaker Seraphine Monien
Author and speaker Seraphine Monien is a certified instructor for autogenic training and progressive muscle relaxation, an internationally trained meditation teacher, mindfulness trainer, and coach for personal and spiritual development. In her work, she demonstrates practical and effective ways to independently and sustainably improve one's life. The methods, systems, and tools she has developed for improving the quality of life are tried-and-tested and easily applicable to anyone.
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