How to meditate?

Question

How can we control our mind? how to meditate? what are the benefits of meditation? any one there to help me?

Answer 1

The whole aim of meditation is,
1. to calm your mind, and
2. to focus the mind on one thing.

The mind of a normal person is like an uncontrolled monkey jumping from one thought to another. To process all these thoughts a lot of body energy is used. Thus if your mind cease to process thoughts you will be saving a lot of body energy which can be used to cure a lot of ailments in your body. That is why a person who continues to meditate regularly even gets a nice body complexion.

Anapana or concentration on the breath is the best form of meditation.

If you sit down and close your eyes you will notice that your mind is jumping from one thought to another. Even though you want to concentrate on your breath you will find other thoughts also coming in between.

In learning to meditate you must first learn to calm your mind. You do this by following every thought that comes into you mind. You must be like a Manager of a Hotel who stands at the entrance and observes the customers coming in. Without getting attached to the thoughts try to observe them. You will find that a thought comes in and that it goes nowhere and another thought follows it - try following that too - with same results. This way you will find that your thoughts gradually subside. Do not try to force out your thoughts.

Of course do not expect results in one or two days. Practise it for at least 40 minutes every day for at least 2 months you find that you have 'killed' your train of thoughts. I have practised for 1 1/2 years and still vagrant thoughts come in.

Thereafter start concentrating on your breath. Notice the breath coming in and going out. You should not concentrate only on the tip of your nose. Notice the breath coming in and thereafter your lungs getting filled and then gradually exhaling the breath.

After you finish that for the day start to think of a person or several persons whom you hate most. Having those people in mind start to think in a compassionate manner "may he be healthy, may he be happy, may he go up in life, may he live long". Keep on doing this for about 10 minutes a day for a few months you will find that you do not get angry even when you have to get angry.

You should be able to get some guidance from the following sites,

1. http://www.dhamma.org/vipassan.htm
2. http://www.meditationexpert.com/ and click on the free articles on yoga meditation - it includes articles on all types of meditations including christian and muslim meditation.

Answer 2

There are hundreds of different techniques of meditation and thousands of books and articles on the subject. A google or yahoo search will come up with thousands of articles on how to meditate.

The only question you need to ask yourself is "why do I want to meditate?" or "What do I expect from meditation."

The simplest form of meditation is simply to sit quiet for some time.

Sit comfortably and just be still and quiet. Allow thoughts and feelings to subside and stay there. If you get carried away by thoughts, just realise that you've lost your concentration and return to the quiet state. Again and again. Be present, meaning be aware of where you are and what's happening inside and around you. Many things can happen in that stillness (or so they say.)

Good luck.

Answer 3

There are 2 methods that I have used.
sit in a stable position and consciously relax all of your body. Then concentrate on your breathing. Follow the air of each breath from the tip of your nose to your lungs in and out. Keep doing this. If your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the breathing.

The other is walking meditation. You slowly walk in a quiet place and be aware of every aspect of each step.

You will not be able to maintain yur concentration for very long at first, maybe only 5 minutes. But the time increases as you get better at it.

The main objective is to train your mind to do what you want it to.

I think of the untrained mind as a tree full of monkeys, lots of running around chattering mindlessly. The trained mind is calm and focussed. It works much more effectively

Answer 4

Meditation means different things to different people. To meditate you must learn to get quite inside your own head. It s that easy. You can do it anywhere , any time.
If you are interested in doing this, read a couple of books on meditation. It will be time well spent.

Answer 5

simple breathing with 4 counts.... clearing your mind... siting indian style... quite! not a sound! just breath...! open ur eyes and u feel... light... very light...its so amazing! do it for 20 mins. u can also have soft music. and when i say breathing 4 cound i mean breath in for 4 counts kinda slow like 1...2...3...4.. and then out 4 just like that. and keep doing that the whole time. need more help? IM me @ life_And_Ashleyxoxo

Ashley

Answer 6

You sit quietly and let your mind go blank. It is basically that point where you are just about to fall asleep. It is known as twilight. You are still awake but barely and totally relaxed, and it is like you can dream what you want to dream at that point...