For thousands of years, people have calmed their minds and increased their awareness through meditation. Meditation combats stress, eases anxiety, and gives you a greater sense of yourself.
Your regular meditation practice helps you focus and think creatively. Meditation also reduces pain, lowers blood pressure, and improves sleep. However, some people find meditation challenging and don’t reap the full benefits. Marijuana meditation can help.
Making Meditation Better With Cannabis
Have you wondered how to make your regular meditation practice better? Studies have shown that combining cannabis with meditation can have significant wellness benefits, such as:
- Reducing stress and anxiety
- Easing pain, making it easier to relax and focus as you meditate
- Calming your mind and body, allowing you to better connect with your thoughts and feelings
- Expanding your perspective on life
Meditating With Weed: A Cannabis Meditation Guide
Ready to kick your meditation up a notch with cannabis? Here are some tips to get you started.
1. Select Your Strain
Cannabis affects everyone differently, so check out different strains. Indicas promote relaxation. Sativas are more energizing. Some terpenes — such as myrcene, caryophyllene, and linalool — ease tension and anxiety. Other terpenes, like pinene and limonene, boost energy and focus levels.
Experiment with a few different strains and doses before you try meditating with weed.
2. Choose Your Consumption Method
Onset times vary greatly for different products, such as cannabis flowers and edibles. Flower, vapes, and sublingual tinctures typically take effect within minutes, putting you in the right headspace almost instantly. Edibles take longer — between 30 and 90 minutes — to kick in.
Time your dose so that you feel the effects during your meditation session.
3. Consider Different Meditation Techniques
Find which meditation techniques — like mindfulness, gazing, movement, and visualization — work best for your marijuana meditation.
If you’re new to meditation, you might also try guided meditation.
4. Prepare Your Space
Take some time to ready your space before you begin. You don’t want to worry about interrupting your session after your chosen strain takes effect.
5. Bring Yourself Back if Your Mind Wanders
If your mind starts to wander, don’t get discouraged. It’s not uncommon to get distracted. Guiding your attention gently back to your breathing can help you resume your meditative state.
6. Pay Attention To How You Feel
Listen to your body closely during your marijuana meditation sessions. Note how you feel as your dose enters and interacts with your mind and body. Let go.
7. Give Yourself Some Time After Your Session Ends
Meditation is already relaxing. With cannabis in the mix, you’re likely to feel super Zen, relaxed, or euphoric when you finish. Cannabis lingers in your system after you consume it, so be sure to build in some downtime at the end of your sessions.
Enhancing Your Meditation Sessions
Are you ready to take your meditation to a whole new level? With a broad range of high-quality strains and products, Campfire Cannabis has what you need. Check out our selection online or visit us today.
