What are some good methods of meditation?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The Rosary

People don't seem to know what the Rosary really is. It is contemplative prayer...your mind focused on the various mysteries, or events, in the Life of Christ as is written in the Gospels. A form of meditation that is hard to beat.

Answer 3

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 4

One of my favorite methods is called Lectio Divina or Divine Reading. It's a Christian method of mediation and prayer through contemplation of a passage of scripture. The idea is to get closer to God by listening instead of talking. When I learned to practice Lectio it made a huge difference in my life. My level of inner peace multiplied over and over again.

Answer 5

Introversion, described above by grey box head...

Zen mediatation, involving action. I'll use swordplay as an example. Two people fight each other, there must be no negative intentions, in order to clear the mind of thought, because reflexive action leaves no room for thought. This state is known as No-mind.

Grounding: Complete sensual immersions, to ground yourself in the physical "reality" in order to explore its illusionary nature...

Answer 6

What would you care to meditate on? For spiritual growth one should Pray directly to God, please send me a teacher. for information on metation on God see; syda.org order the book Meditation. they have siddha yoga meditation centers all over the world. you may still follow a religion if you chose.

Answer 7

Here's the easiest and most trusted method: Focus on your breath.

That's it.

Sit down if you have to, and just watch your breath. Don't bother trying to control it. Just watch whatever it does! Try not to get sidetracked by thought. Just watch.

Answer 8

Me personally.

I laydown. I have a bad back sitting on my tailbone is uncomfortable. I put my head phones on and listen to ocean cd's. It has a calming effect to me. Or i listen to celtic soft music.

Close me eyes, breathe, and when i'm done.. I feel like i can face the world again.

Answer 9

Shavasana... I guess it is how they spell it,

good gor beginners, Lie straight down on the floor, legs slightly apart, both hands apart, lie flat, visualize that you are melting towards your mat/floor........

or if you wanna a seated post, go to: http://www.buddhanet.net/meditation.htm