Meditation

What does meditation exactly means.

When we speak out the word meditation first word strikes in our mind is relax. Relaxation of mind, soul and body. Meditation is a technique that helps us to focus, concentrative and calms the mind resulting in relaxed and restful state of physical and mental being. Meditation is generally focused on one constant thing, usually your breath. Meditation is an effective tool to gain mind control, self-awareness and understanding that eventually lead to inner calm and peacefulness.

For people practice meditation, it can lead to profound experiences of self-realization and transcendental awareness and knowledge. A proven alternative therapy, meditation is a known stress reliever. Exactly if we say mediation is the one of the way to meet God, because meditation needs full concentration. While doing meditation we reach in another world that is full of light, brightness. It makes us feel like our body is weightless. Meditation is beneficial not only psychologically but is known to have positive effects on various health conditions ranging from blood pressure, insomnia to even depression. There are different techniques of meditation that people follow today. These are a product of diverse cultures and peoples around the world. The power of meditation has been harnessed to alleviate pain, suffering and promote healing for centuries in different cultures and religions, in some or the other form.

Types of meditation are:

There are various types of meditation that originate from various parts of the world. Prayers possibly the most common one, the others are

Transcendental Meditation

Mindfulness meditation

Zen meditation

Buddhist Meditation

Taoist Meditation.

Meditation Techniques

There are two major approaches to meditation, which are Concentrative Meditation and Mindfulness Meditation. These are as follows:

1.Concentrative Meditation:

The approach to still the mind is to focus the attention on the breath, image or sound (mantra). This gives way to greater awareness and clarity. In its most basic form concentrative meditation requires you to sit quietly and focus your attention on your breath.

2.Mindfulness Meditation:

In this type of meditation, the mind is aware of all that is happening around you. You just observe the sounds, feelings, sensations, images, thoughts, smells etc without getting involved in them or thing about them.