Please tell me some meditation techniques? What is meditation used for. Can it really make a good change to my life
2006-08-11 04:00:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
Go into a quite room, sit comfortably, clear your mind. Repeat something that would help you relax, perhaps a short phrase or the classic "Ohm." This is a good way to clear your mind from stress.
2006-08-11 04:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by M45-S355 l_l532 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meditation is used to clear your mind of cluttered and stressful thought, and to allow you to relax and refresh yourself. I personally use it as a type of prayer-time.
There is no right or wrong position, just don't lie down or your energy flows will be disturbed. The best advice I can give is to sit up straight, your legs relaxed and not out straight in front of you . .. use your own back muscles to support yourself, but don't tense.
Close your eyes, and inhale slowly. Hold your breath in for a moment, and as you exhale, visualize your bad thoughts exiting with your breath. After doing this with a rhythm for a while, you will feel yourself relaxing more fully. You will most likely become super-sensitive in your senses, as well. It is IMPERATIVE that your eyes remain closed, so that you can concentrate on the flows of energy in your body.
Buddhists like to think of meditation as treating the body as a flower. As you inhale, you are taking in the spirit of the earth and Buddha, and as you exhale, you should allow a small smile to relax the muscles of your face, making you like to a blooming lotus . . .
2006-08-11 04:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by Jayna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 nearly 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.
2006-08-13 04:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by donp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alcohol helps me meditate
2006-08-11 04:05:53 · answer #4 · answered by swndawg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sleep, it is naturally done by every living being
now, try to sleep in awaken state........
2006-08-14 06:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Henry W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋