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meditation gives you a healthy mind

2006-10-08 07:29:54 · 15 answers · asked by ansa 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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The term Meditation describes a variety of practices with a variety of goals. It usually involves turning our attention inward to the mind itself. Meditation is often recognized as a component of Eastern religions, originating in Vedic Hinduism. [citation needed] It has also become more mainstream in Western culture. It encompasses any of a wide variety of spiritual practices which emphasize mental activity or quiescence. Meditation can also be used for personal development, such as the exercises of Hatha yoga. Many practice meditation in order to achieve eternal peace, while others do it in order to become healthier and friendlier.

The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. Meditation may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine; as a technique for cultivating mental discipline; or as a means of gaining insight into the nature of reality, or of communing with one's God. Many report improved concentration, awareness, self-discipline and equanimity through meditation.

Many authorities avoid emphasizing the effects of meditation — sometimes out of modesty, sometimes for fear that the expectation of results might interfere with one's meditation. For theists, the effects of meditation are considered a gift of God or from the Holy Spirit/Ghost, and not something that is "achieved" by the meditator alone, just as some say that a person will not convert to Christianity without the influence of the Holy Spirit/Ghost's presence.

At the same time, many effects (or perhaps side-effects) have been experienced during, or claimed for, various types of meditation. These include:

Greater faith in, or understanding of, one's religion or beliefs
An increase in patience, compassion, and other virtues and morals or the understanding of them
Feelings of calm or peace, and/or moments of great joy
Consciousness of sin, temptation, and remorse, and a spirit of contrition.
Sensitivity to certain forms of lighting, such as fluorescent lights or computer screens, and sometimes heightened sense-perception.
Surfacing of buried memories.
Experience of spiritual phenomena such as kundalini, extra-sensory perception, or visions of deities, saints, demons, etc.
"Miraculous" abilities such as levitation (cf. yogic flying)
Psychotic episodes (see medical section below)
Some traditions acknowledge that many types of experiences and effects are possible, but instruct the meditator to keep in mind the spiritual purpose of the meditation, and not be distracted by lesser concerns. For example, Mahayana Buddhists are urged to meditate for the sake of "full and perfect enlightenment for all sentient beings" (the bodhisattva vow). Some, as in certain sects of Christianity, say that these things are possible, but are only to be supported if they are to the glory of God.

2006-10-08 07:33:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Very unfortunately you are correct ! That is the meaning that is widely supposed to be, and attributed.
In the story of Prince & pauper, when they exchanged roles, the pauper used the heavy Royal seal for cracking Nuts !
But Meditation is a state of being, a level of consciousness, awareness ! We try to set conditions for meditation to happen , and so it has also acquired the verb form of 'doing meditation, meditating etc '... It so happens that when a person attempts to become meditative, tension HAS to get cured, so it also happens to be useful to handle tension, but meditation had not been intended as a medicine for tension !
Another example, Ayurveda is a science about life, and now it is more understood as a system of medicine !

2006-10-08 23:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0 0

It depends, there are many tecnics going around.
Since spiritualty has become spiritual industry. many people are doing as a business.
Hence spiritualty was never a business.
People were learning, because they wanted.
For their personal life, and happiness.
They new the value of it.
And the masters and gurus were giving this knowldge
to their disciples free.
they never asked anything in return.
They could be honest with there followers.
Some time guru could be angry on them
And some time the guru could through the disciple
out also.
Guru could be honest because there was no interest from the part
of guru.
If he felt that his disiciple is needed some hard kick.
He was free to do that beyond any personal selfish.
HIs disiciple were taking care guru's personal needs.
Not because of any bounds, from the gratitude.
Their was a love relationship between guru and disiciple.
In reality spritiualty is love. and how love can be a business.
If say yes love can be a business, you know the answer.

I come to your question, since spiritualty has become business
Everybody want to grow his business,
So many tecnics are being invented.
And those people are inventing, who have never done himself
Now one blind man how long can bring you.
Yes his intention is good, But still blind.........
So those people has invented many tecnics which are combinds
with concentration.
If the tecnics which are combined with concentration they don't
relax.
Concentration means you focus on something,
Focus means you force your self on one point or topic
Very effort to focus on something, that create tension

So depends which kind of meditation one is doing
each meditation brings his on results.
And how to use it

I could tell more but I don't feel to write more.

Meditate meditate what ever the way meditate.
Through meditation one grows, through meditation
one reaches to the truth,
Through meditation, one gets the answer of all his questions.

Meditation doesn't solve problems, problems disappear

So as much time you spend in thinking
that time now spend in meditating.
all your problems will disappear


With all my love

2006-10-08 09:00:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

meditation releases tension with out medicine.

2006-10-08 11:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by prince47 7 · 0 0

YES IT is best medicine to relief your stress and tensions. Are you questioning or answering?

2006-10-08 08:05:53 · answer #5 · answered by y?why? 2 · 0 0

Proper meditation allows communion with God.

2006-10-08 07:34:23 · answer #6 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0 0

any state of relaxation is medicine to tension, sleep, a good book, beating the h*** out of something. Whatever it takes to relax.

2006-10-08 07:51:26 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0 0

According to advice of parapsychologist Israel Levinshtein, I began to study religious practice-meditation. And once, involuntary, I felt that vibration wave came on my brain. This wave caused vibration of all neutrons of my brain. They started vibrating in the same phase, with the same frequency that the last wave. All the neutrons came to homogeneous "vacuum" state. And then I saw "myself", my spiritual essence. i gazed and saw clean silver circle. And I initially understood that this circle was my true "I". And this true "I" is eternal, unwounded, passionless, spiritual, conscious, evolutionary. It was so exactly, so clear, so real that then, recollecting and telling someone about it, I told him that it was "more real than I was talking to you".
Most of all amazed me that my true "I" is passionless. Because I am an emotional person. How is that that I am passionless? And I somehow mentally asked: And what about love?" and mentally received the answer: "Way".
When the vision of true "I" disappeared, the first thought came. And this thought drove on all the neutrons of the brain, having programmed them with one question: "how to explain it scientifically?" And I became a slave of this question. All my time was devoted to the search of the answer to this question.

2006-10-09 00:25:21 · answer #8 · answered by socratus 2 · 0 0

no
meditation means tension to madicine

2006-10-08 07:32:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Modernity releases sympathetic courses that pervade distinct realities.

2006-10-08 13:12:33 · answer #10 · answered by James P 3 · 0 0

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