What Is Meditation?

[petercheck1]

The simplest form of concentrative meditation is to sit quietly and focus the attention on the breath. Yoga and meditation practitioners believe that there is a direct correlation between one's breath and one's state of the mind. For example, when a person is anxious, frightened, agitated, or distracted, the breath will tend to be shallow, rapid, and uneven. On the other hand, when the mind is calm, focused, and composed, the breath will tend to be slow, deep, and regular. Focusing the mind on the continuous rhythm of inhalation and exhalation provides a natural object of meditation. As you focus your awareness on the breath, your mind becomes absorbed in the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. As a result, your breathing will become slower and deeper, and the mind becomes more tranquil and aware.

[albertswoods]

Meditation is one form of Yoga. It has many benefit to health. Regularly performing meditation promote peace of mind and body relaxation. It improves our breathing and helps increasing concentration and will power.

[starramp]

Well, Meditation is a form of exercise which use to relax your body. People practice the art of meditation to achieve peace and harmony of the mind and body. You will obtain increased clarity if you meditate every day.

[pontingroy]

Meditation is a three step process that leads to a state of consciousness that brings serenity, clarity and happiness. As illustrated in the first place, our "normal" state of mind is quite abnormal. We receive sensory stimuli and react in a completely uncontrolled way (although we say we have a great control). We bounce from one thought to another and follow with our emotional and physical reactions. The same thinking can lead to diametrically opposite reactions at different times. For example, we see a dog and then start a thought process that reminisces about a dog we once had and loved. Emotionally, we can then begin to feel the warmth and kind, physically, we feel very relaxed. Again, we see the same dog and the fear that we can attack and start thinking paranoid thoughts are physically afraid and tense.

[wrinjal]

Meditation is the one type of power exercise.Meditation help to increase Memory power and concentration.Meditation help to reduce stress and make fresh.

[petercheck1]

A laboratory study of practitioners of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation (TM), carried out by Benson and Wallace at Harvard Medical School towards the end of the 1960s, provided the first detailed knowledge of the many physiological changes that go with meditation.

[JennyFinny]

Meditation means a concentrated state of mind in serious reflection, best for brain power. Meditation encompasses a variety of practices that are somewhat different, while holding to the basic principles of consideration and quiet thought to bring about a state of rumination.

[petercheck1]

Mindfulness meditation , according to Dr. Borysenko, "involves opening the attention to become aware of the continuously passing parade of sensations and feelings, images, thoughts, sounds, smells, and so forth without becoming involved in thinking about them." The person sits quietly and simply witnesses whatever goes through the mind, not reacting or becoming involved with thoughts, memories, worries, or images. This helps to gain a more calm, clear, and non-reactive state of mind. Mindfulness meditation can be likened to a wide-angle lens. Instead of narrowing your sight to a selected field as in concentrative meditation, here you will be aware of the entire field.

[petercheck1]

On the other hand, when the mind is calm, focused, and composed, the breath will tend to be slow, deep, and regular. Focusing the mind on the continuous rhythm of inhalation and exhalation provides a natural object of meditation. As you focus your awareness on the breath, your mind becomes absorbed in the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. As a result, your breathing will become slower and deeper, and the mind becomes more tranquil and aware.

[jessic123]

To learn life de-adiction is the first word that has to be implemented in your life. Meditation is no longer just for the groovy folk. Learning to meditate is taking the path to higher conciousness and higher living.