How Do You Meditate?

**Posts:** 5 · by **InclineDBPresss** » Sat May 26, 2012 2:06 pm

user369 wrote:
thefool wrote:I walk through life and notice it.

I find I am usually alone when I do this, as everyone else seems preoccupied inside their own minds, processing yesterday, calculating tomorrow... missing life.

Agreed, although as soon as everyone "seems preoccupied" you have started to 'judge/react/analyze' and stopped simply 'noticing.'

Haha so true!

I use Hemi-Sync brain wave meditation.

**Posts:** 17 · by **MattCoast** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:19 am

Some of the best meditation teachers in the world say that the best thing to meditate on is nothingness. Although, I think that's a bit of an advanced technique (if there is such a thing).

I've found, personally, that meditating on the elimination of cravings has been the most powerful for me. Meaning, you start with your craving to scratch yourself (because meditation seems to be the only time my body itches). And just becoming okay with the fact that you itch and not to take any action on it.

I don't know... there are so many different ways to meditate that it can make your head spin.

**Posts:** 61 · by **Hovehypnotherapist** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:53 pm

I meditate using a mantra from the primordial sound technique which I find is good as it keeps my focus and so when my mind wanders I can go back to my mantra.

**Posts:** 33 · by **Toastmasters Scottsdale** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:00 pm

I close my eyes and focus my breathing.

I also imagine a straight line coming out of my belly button, one across my shoulders and another coming straight down (coronal) into my head as if aligned with my spine.

Breathing follows.

Works pretty well for me.
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**Posts:** 64 · by **tsinj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:32 pm

VladKoros wrote:
It’s not the first time I hear people talking about meditation as a way to relax. Actually, it would have been a funny joke at the monastery in which I spent several years. Every time the headmaster declared new assignments, you could see the fright in the students’ eyes. Of course, I couldn’t see my eyes, but I knew from my past experience that my assignment—which was 90% of time a form of meditation—would be on the borderline of my strength and abilities. Yes, meditation is a great way to relieve stress, but it’s only because meditation itself creates a greater stress. While meditation has been practiced for thousands of years, I never heard of it to be a way to relax from any of my teachers. The problem is this: No matter what kind of meditation you practice, it always involves your concentrating on something specific. Relaxation, on the other hand, implies letting your focus wander as it pleases.

My first reaction to your post was "It's stress producing? No way" But then I think of all my attempts and had to agree that I was stressed trying to meditate until I learned to just let the thoughts drift without judging how well I focused.

I don't think you can meditate on a particular subject. That's a contradiction of the term meditate. I think a better term form what you were told to do in the monastery is contemplate.

**Posts:** 64 · by **tsinj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:35 pm

I often use bi-neural beats to help me relax.

**Posts:** 5 · by **devil1007** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:22 am

Meditation is nice. I used to practice it earlier, I would set alarms of 30 minutes and then sit cross-legged on the bed.
I observed that I started feeling heavy, as if the earth was actually pulling me down, I dont know why that happened?

I also used to jump when the alarm rang, it was very startling.

Mainly I try to clear my thoughts, i.e simply if an issue arises, just wave it away.

Are these correct things in meditation?

**Posts:** 52 · by **DeMing** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:38 am

Thanks for sharing this article. I think we all need a reminder once in a while to slow things down, to just let things be.

What I found interesting was the other two stages of meditation. I always thought that meditation is just trying to achieve silence.

**Posts:** 782 · by **Blitzkreger** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:10 pm

I close my eyes and focus my breathing. - THIS!

**Posts:** 45 · by **Willy279** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:22 pm

Blitzkreger wrote:I close my eyes and focus my breathing. - THIS!

Absolutely! If you can make it to a Vipassana retreat, they're 10 days, free and you get to eat for free! Changed my life...

**Posts:** 206 · by **Aeonios** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:10 am

tsinj wrote:I don't think you can meditate on a particular subject. That's a contradiction of the term meditate. I think a better term form what you were told to do in the monastery is contemplate.

"Meditate" is used to mean something different depending on who uses it. Your interpretation seems more taoist to me. In buddhism, for example, they often mention 'meditating on the buddha' or 'meditating on the bodhisattvas' in which you're expected to literally imagine them and focus on that image until you get zonked out.

I'd say it depends on what you're trying to use meditation to do. If you're using it to relax, then focusing on anything in particular may be a bad idea. If you're using it to achieve enlightenment or something, then focusing on your breath and any emotions that come up might be more helpful.

There are other possible uses for meditation, too. Aldous Huxley had a strange state he could get into where he could collect all his ideas for writing a book. Then later he could write the book and automatically incorporate those ideas without thinking about it.

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