Meditation in itself is claimed to be a apply that calms the thoughts and reduces stress over time by focusing in your respiratory for about 5 to 10 minutes.
For some folks, particularly inexperienced persons, the idea of meditation is fairly overwhelming and onerous to comply with, particularly with out correct steering. This is the rationale why Rachel Ngan Dueñas, one of many few tea sommeliers within the nation, held a tea meditation ceremony final weekend at The Farm at San Benito.
Much like meditation typically, tea meditation is the apply of mindfully making ready your self a cup of tea, away from all of the distractions, whereas nonetheless focusing in your respiratory.
Through this apply, you’ll reap the numerous advantages of ingesting tea and, within the course of, acquire peace of thoughts and calm vitality from meditation. It’s like hitting two birds with one stone.
According to a examine by Yale psychologists in 2008, those that expertise private heat are prone to radiate interpersonal heat. The examine additionally confirmed that individuals who briefly held a cup of scorching beverage have been extra prone to understand others as extra beneficiant and caring.
This examine proves that whereas we do not bodily see it, ingesting a scorching cup of tea improves an individual’s psychological well being in addition to its scientifically confirmed advantages, like boosting one’s immune system and preventing irritation, amongst others.
Rachel’s model of tea meditation begins by encouraging individuals to get comfy with their seats, then unclenching their jaws and enjoyable their shoulders. Once you are within the zone, you could shut your eyes and silence your ideas whereas pondering of needs or manifestations for your self.
Those needs will be so simple as getting evening’s sleep, discovering peace of thoughts amidst the noise, and even larger manifestations like discovering your path or making it by your private struggles.
Once you resolve on the belongings you want for your self, you could start mindfully making ready your cup of tea in silence. This will function your meditative state as you’re employed on simply being current and nothing else.
After making ready your cup of tea, you could start waking up your senses by smelling the aroma of the tea, feeling the new sensation oozing out of your cup, and sipping on the tea slowly and punctiliously. With each sip of tea, declare no matter you would like for your self as if it is already your actuality, and really feel that manifestation unfold all through your physique.
“When people think of tea meditation, they initially [perceive] it [as something] fancy, but really, it’s just mindfully preparing a tea for yourself,” Rachel instructed GMA News Online.
According to Rachel, tea meditation is for everyone, however extra so for these with a busy schedule.
“I do this for people who have a million things to do and are always thinking of their next move,” she stated.
“I do this for people to realize that you actually have to make time, even if it’s just 10 minutes for yourself, so that the more you are rested, the more you allow yourself to have proper thoughts,” she added.
Rachel obtained her tea sommelier certification from the International Tea Masters Association, which is taken into account the worldwide normal in tea schooling.
She has been conducting tea meditation courses on-line and offline, in addition to working as a guide for a number of bars and holding workshops in regards to the fundamentals of tea.
Aside from being a tea sommelier, Rachel can be a painter. She has a solo exhibit dubbed “Healing With Arts” on the Farm at San Benito, which is on the market for viewing till June 30.
—MGP, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
