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Whether you're trying to calm your mind or heal your spirit, there are a number of great meditation centers in Miami you can check out. Each one has its own style and offers a different type of meditation, of which there are dozens, so do a bit of reading about the style at each Miami meditation center to decide if it will work well for you. Most of these centers that offer meditation classes also have websites you can check out with sessions that are either free or very affordable. 1. International Zen Institute of Florida This meditation center offers Zen meditation, which is practiced around the world. Zen meditation requires sitting still to prepare both the mind and body to gain deep insight into yourself. You'll be instructed to close your mind to any images and thoughts and, after awhile, your heart rate will slow. The International Zen Institute of Florida has a location in Coconut Grove with sponsored sitting groups in Key Biscayne and South Beach. They hold meditat...

The beach is very Zen. The busyness of living in the city is not. Are you frazzled, needing to slow down and reset yourself?  More often than not, you have to learn how to do this. What is Meditation? Meditation can be summed up as calm introspection to achieve awareness. Meditation requires that you be still, with thoughtful breathing and mindful control of your thoughts. During meditation classes you are guided through a slow thought process in which you intentionally focus and wonder about one thing at a time for a period of time. Meditation helps you to explore and focus on one thought or mantra so that it becomes more purposeful to you. Its meaning grows, and you are able to use it to your benefit for your need. Maybe you desire to work on focusing on success, your health, your relationships, or an overloaded mind. Maybe you have a disorder that typical medical science has fallen short of treating, and helping you cope with. Whatever you want to fix and improve, meditation tea...

The human mind is a powerful and clever thing. Its constant foray into a world filled with information, technology, and constant distraction should drive a person insane, but instead it is built to catalog and file away every experience, feeling, and textile event that we encounter. With every new interaction comes a new memory and a new piece of the world, but it also brings in the added stress of having your mind overflow with thoughts and events. Sometimes we become way too over stimulated and it creates stress and limits the amount of concentration we have to focus. When this happens we need a way to re-center our focus, we need meditation. Meditation is a form of focus and relaxation that allows the mind to reassert itself, and gives the person practicing the technique a chance to find not only themselves but a quality of inner peace not found anywhere else. It is a state of heightened awareness, a way to help you find what it is that is creating such disturbance in your mind and...