What is your experience with meditation? Do you have a specific one of meditating with the mantra OM?

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

I use OM as part of another mantra: OM GUM GANAPATAYEI NAMAHA. Chanting it really helps me, especially when I'm in situations of high stress. For a while I was trying to keep a daily routine of chanting it 108 times each session, but I was not able to keep doing it. Sometime I use recordings of the full Ganesh chants.

Another seed I use is RAM.

I also use visualization for meditation, with or without a sound component.

Answer 3

I had a very difficult time learning to meditate. I still have a bit of a challenge focusing enough to do any good. Guided mediations work better for me, but whenever i can "get" there--it works great!
Om works if a teacher is leading--sometimes. I prefer to concentrate on my breathing.

Answer 4

BY CHANTING THE MANTRA OM WE GET THE EXPERIENCE OF SUPERIOR HAPPINESS BECAUSE THE MEANING OF OM IS I'M A SOUL. THE SOUL IS A POINT OF LIGHT. ITS ORIGINALITY IS COMPLETE SILENCE. WHEN WE REALISE THEASE THINGS OURSELF AND ACCEPT AND PRACTICE TO MEDITATE BY CHANTING THE MANTRA THE ORIGINAL POWERS MERGED INTO THE SOUL WILL BE EMERGED AND THEN OUR'S 7TH SENSE IS WAKE UP & STARTED TO WORK AFTER THAT ORDINARY MAN BECOME'S SUPER MAN.

Answer 5

doesn't work for me.... way too weird to do what they expect you to do....the neighbors thought I was loosing my mind when I tried it....gave it up and choose to think on good things,see the funny part of every sistuation hhas made me life MUCH more stress free....