Meditation Calming Techniques with Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation has been around for several years in Tibetan, India and Buddhist. Historians believe that meditation was practiced before this time, as early as 3000 BCE. It wasn’t until 1979 when the Mindfulness Base Stress Reduction emerge in the West. Today it is a form of technique used as a stress reliever, to gain clarity. There has been an increase of professionals seeking tools to bring their lives into balance. Speaking of Into Balance, it is a name of a local wellness center that focuses on Mindfulness Meditation. This is a specific Meditation technique that many have used with ending results of calming the body, for focus, clarity and increase of self-knowing.

Drew Buss is the founder and owner of Into Balance in Lincoln NE. He started the business in 2001, after he graduated from Indiana University. Buss became certified as a Mindfulness Meditation Instructor and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP). This approach to therapy is different from the traditional methods of therapy.

Buss is an experience counselor; he began counseling in Nebraska in 1996. When asked who the people are seeking the type of help his business offers, Buss states, “they are mostly professionals that are in high stressful position like school teachers, CEO’s, lawyers, doctors.”

Due to the devastating impact of Covid 19, many lives have been disrupted and people are having to deal with uncertainty of life. Many businesses have assigned their employees to work from home. “Isolation, depression and the lack of clarity is why many people come to me,” said Buss. Buss's technique of mind tacking is not having the intention to relax but to observe and accept allowing the meditator to relax.

For decades, mental illness has been looked at with a negative shadow. Families in the past have not addressed the issues of mental illness of family members and it has been shoved in the corner. Discrimination is more talked about and has brought awareness in society oppose to mental illness awareness. Today mental illness is in the mainstream media as a condition that can affect all. The negative connotation of mental illness could be changing.

When asked, if the mainstream outlook of mental illness could be changing. Buss said, mental illness has changed some, however, we must stop only contributing mental illness to mass massacres and realized that there are different levels mental illness.” Before people can feel non threatened by admitting mental illness in their families or themselves, the stigmatisms much become lessened in our society.

The National Center for Health Statistics provides data from The Household Pulse Survey goal is to produce data on the social and economic impacts of COVID-19. This survey gathers information on the effects of COVID0-19 about the loss of income, employment, health, and education.

Buss shares, that the Into Balance Center offers classes in yoga and meditation. The classes are geared to promote healthy, positive mental health.”