Evolve Me Meditation

Evolve Me is a simple guided imagery form of meditation to help you relax, release stress and achieve more in your life.

You may be thinking, what is guided imagery?

Belleruth Naperstek US Guided Imagery pioneer explains it this way. “Guided imagery meditation is a gentle but powerful technique that focuses and directs the imagination in proactive or positive ways”. With at least 40 years of research to back it up, guided imagery has been shown to demonstrate a positive impact on health, creativity, and performance.”

How is guided imagery meditation different to traditional meditation?

The key difference is that guided imagery can help drive behavioural change. “Guided imagery works because the brain and body respond to imagined experience almost as strongly as if it were really happening” De Paolis et al.2019 --

Guided imagery harnesses not only the mind, but also the body, the senses, and the imagination. Think about how powerful that can be, when you’re looking to form healthy, new habits to bring about positive change.

At the heart of the Evolve Me is the unique tailor-made Peaceful Place that you create inside your mind. In this place, you are always calm and relaxed. This is a place you can get back to easily and in the process of getting there, you automatically relax and let go of stress.

Developing the daily habit of short visits to Your Peaceful Place is the key to the Evolve Me practice. When skilled in this simple daily habit, people can take as little as 30 seconds to one minute to move from a stressed state to a relaxed state of mind and regain their focus and ability to concentrate.

What does this mean in real life? It means you can quickly and easily calm yourself when you need to. For example in school it could be relationships, assignments or worries about an important exam. Perhaps you’re working with a difficult manager or workmate or you’re about to go to an important meeting. Maybe you tend to feel nervous before you go to the dentist. You might have an important job interview, or you’re about to go on a date. All of these scenarios can lead people to feel stressed. By going to your Peaceful Place, even just briefly, you can empower yourself to take better control of your feelings, rather than your feelings taking control of you, and settle your mind and body, helping you to navigate your situation in a calmer manner.

The simplicity of building the habit of very short visits to your Peaceful Place means that almost anyone can incorporate it into their daily lives. You can develop it to be a lifelong habit to support you to more effectively manage the different stresses that can arise at different life stages.