Ahealing meditationis, as its name suggests, a very special kind of meditation. It aims to help your body in its natural healing process. So, what can you expect when you listen to a healing meditation and will it actually work for you?

Typically you'll listen to a pre-recorded audio file that will guide you through the process of helping to heal yourself. You'll sit or lie down and maybe don a set of headphones.

There'll likely be either relaxing music or natural sounds - such as waves breaking on a beach - playing in the background.

Then the narrator's voice will talk you through the initial process of relaxing your whole body. Many tracks will talk your through literally from head to toe, relaxing each body part in turn. By the end of this part of the process, it's likely that you'll feel more relaxed than you have in a long time.

Once this has happened, the main part of the healing process will begin.

If you're skeptical, it's important to realize that modern medicine uses the power of the body to heal itself on a regular basis. Anyone who's ever had the misfortune to break a limb will know that aside from rearranging the broken bone into proper alignment and then setting a cast around the affected area, there isn't much else the doctors actually do. Your body mends and heals itself after the initial helping hand.

Healing meditations work in much the same way. They point your body in the right direction and let it do the rest.