We at HealthScience believe in healing the “whole” you from the inside and out. Therefore, we make it a priority to provide options to support natural healing and wellness during your visit. Meditation is just one of the services we have to offer as an add on to your relaxing skin care treatments.
During your facial your Esthetician will provide you with Bluetooth ear pods just before applying your healing facial mask. While your mask does its magic, for approximately 20+ minutes you will be whisked away to another world, leaving all stress and worry behind. The benefits of your meditation session can also help carry you more calmly through your day even after you leave our spa.
Meditation is thousands of years old and has been practiced and used to understand the sacred forces of life and to connect with nature. Today, meditation is used as a complementary type of mind-body medicine to enhance stress reduction, relaxation, improvement of focus and to support a tranquil mind while improving emotional and physical well-being. It has also been known to help to stay centered and to keep inner peace.
Meditation can be done in silence or with supporting relaxing music and nature sounds. During meditation, the goal is to relax the body and to eliminate all fleeting and jumbled thoughts that crowd the mind which often are sources of stress and anxiety. When you meditate, you may eliminate the overwhelming overload of information that builds up every day and contributes to your stress. The end result is an improvement of emotional, mental, spiritual and physical well-being.
Benefits of meditation
As stated by Mayo Clinic, the emotional and physical benefits of meditation can include:
- Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations
- Building skills to manage your stress
- Increasing self-awareness
- Focusing on the present
- Reducing negative emotions
- Increasing imagination and creativity
- Increasing patience and tolerance
- Lowering resting heart rate
- Lowering resting blood pressure
- Improving sleep quality
Research has also shown that meditation can help some people manage symptoms of many chronic health conditions such as:
- Addiction
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Cancer
- Chronic pain
- Depression
- Heart disease
- High blood pressure
- Immune system
- Inflammation
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Memory improvement
- Mood enhancement
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sleep problems
- Tension headaches