Wanna learn how to mediate any good advice?
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There are meditation classes available most places. If not there are hundreds of books with instructions. There are different ways to meditate, you may need to try a couple types before you find a good fit.
Look for a book called "Peace Is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hanh. it contains some nice walking meditations.
For music, look for anything along the lines of Chakra Meditations or Tibetan Singing Bowls. Most people use silence for meditation.
smoke a doob and listen to enya
The Relaxation Response - Benson has an excellent system free from all the mumbo jumbo.
There are various ways and methods of meditation. You may visit this site for more information.
http://www.sahajmarg.org/smrti/education...
Meditation means awareness. Whatever you do with awareness is meditation. "Watching your breath" is meditation; listening to the birds is meditation. As long as these activities are free from any other distraction to the mind, it is effective meditation.
Meditation is not a technique but a way of life. Meditation means 'to join together or to yoke' . It describes a state of consciousness, when the mind is free of scattered thoughts and various patterns . The observer (one who is doing meditation) realizes that all the activity of the mind is reduced to one.
Traditionally, the classical yoga texts, describe that to attain true states of meditation one must go through several stages. After the necessary preparation of personal and social code, physical position, breath control, and relaxation come the more advanced stages of concentration, contemplation, and then ultimately absorption. But that does not mean that one must perfect any one stage before moving onto the next. The Integral yoga approach is simultaneous application of a little of all stages together.
Commonly today, people can mean any one of these stages when they refer to the term meditation. Some schools only teach concentration techniques, some relaxation, and others teach free form contemplative activities like just sitting and awaiting absorption. Some call it meditation without giving credence to yoga for fear of being branded 'eastern'. But yoga is not something eastern or western as it is universal in its approach and application.
With regular practice of a balanced series of techniques, the energy of the body and mind can be liberated and the quality of consciousness can be expanded. This is not a subjective claim but is now being investigated by the scientists and being shown by an empirical fact.
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