who would like to share their meditation techniques with me?

Question

how long should you do it for and does it really work? what do i need to start?

Answer 1

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

For this you need only a silent place. You could sit on a chair or you could sit on the ground with folded legs.

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.

Answer 2

There is many different ways to meditate, different techniques for different reasons. I meditate to 'heal' my mind and get in contact with the invisible source energy some call god.

1.lie on you bed or sit in a meditation position (lotus or whatever)
2.I close my eyes and focus on feeling my presence on the bed and in the room.
3. inhale slowly but naturally through the nose then exhale through the mouth (repeat this through out the meditation session)
4. if you do it right you will reach a point where your body will feel warm and fuzzy for a while and your mind will reach a state of no thought whatsoever, the longer you can stay in this state the better.

Answer 3

There are many different kinds of mediatation

Zen Meditation involves everyday activities i.e. gardening, archery, martial arts, cooking

Grounding involves becoming imersed in your senses

Sitting meditation is complete introversion

I'd say 10-20 minutes a day. It really does work.

Answer 4

Meditation actually does help, it made me less stressed, and I even lost a little weight(weird, huh?). Just sit in a quiet room with no distractions and in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and try not to think about anything. Don't try too hard, though. Eventually, random thoughts will come, and don't think about them, either. Just accept them as facts, and then move on to something else. It takes a while to get used to it, so don't get frustrated and keep trying. Good luck!

Answer 5

It's not very complicated. It requires peace and quiet, then focus on your breathing. Breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Concentrate on clearing your mind of any material desires and experiencing total inner peace. Some people use a mantra, and I prefer to focus on one particular teaching of the Buddha and try and contemplate the true meaning of his words. The more you do it the more adept you become at it.

Answer 6

Yes I would.

The Bible tells us to meditate on the word of God. This is alien from other faiths because it includes filling your mind with the word of God. The Bible tells us not to fill our heads with endless repetition but rather fill it and chew it over and really try to understand it. I strongly believe that God doesn't want his creation to empty their minds but rather fill them with all that's good from him. It may be a sort of a dupe going on you know. Spiritual powers that don't come from God may want you to empty your mind so other spiritual powers that are not of God can fill it. However you may change your mind and rather use it as you are supposed to use it to feed your spiritual growth. xxxxxxxxxxx kissy kissy

Answer 7

Does it really "work"? That depends...what are you trying to accomplish?

Answer 8

I'll think about it

Answer 9

no. don't believe in stuff from the idol worshipping religion