help on meditation

[Links Shadow]

Here is a site with several good techniques for people just starting out with meditating.

http://www.meditationcenter.com

After you worked with meditating for a while and gotten used to some of the sensations involved I would recommend switching to the twin-heart meditation as it is very beneficial not only to yourself but the rest of the world as well.  You can find instructions here.  It is a long read but it is not really difficult to perform.

http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/energy-healing/pranic-healing/twin-heart-meditation.asp

Respectfully,
Links Shadow

[Nick]

Hi keo373,

In addition to the excellent advice given by Links Shadow, here is another website to look over. This one has a description of Zen meditation:

http://www.mkzc.org/beginzen.html

Very best to you in your meditation endeavors,

[keo373]

thanx for  your advice

[IshamaeI]

I've always been attracted to Buddhism/Hinduism and have found that the best way to meditate(for me) is to clear my mind and do deep breathing/pranayama.  I also found at first that clearing my mind was not something that I could do very effectively.  Following the breath the most basic meditative technique around is effective, but I found by adding a mantra to my breathing in and out it gave me something better to focus on.  Mantras being something you repeat mentally or aloud if you feel so inclined.  Some examples being:
Om mani padme hum
Allaha allah elohim aba
Adonai, make me an instrument of thy peace
Ram ramaya namah
Om nama shiva ya
I'd recommend trying all of them until you find one that feels right/works for you.  As you get good at this trying increasing the space after you inhale, but before you exhale, where you just rest in mental silence as best you can.  Doing the same after the exhale can be more difficult, but it brings good results.  I try to get my breathing as rhythmic as possible trying for a X:4X:2X:X type pattern .  So if I inhale for 5 seconds, I'd hold for 20, breath out for 10, and then wait 5 before inhaling again.  I'd recommend starting without holds until you're comfortable with it.  Sorry to rant for so long, I hope this helps you along your Path.
Ish

[Radha]

The best defining of meditation, I found in an esoteric eastern school.  It is defined as "Change of Being".  It doesn't involve thinking things, as that is just a mind game, it doesn't involve visualizing something as that is a close cousin to imagining.
While the Sufi schools I've worked with from India describe it just as the definition above, the cabalistic schools don't always define it...they just put it into practice.
The easiest way to put it into practice is to follow the axiom of "See, feel, BE" as the sequence of events.  An example would be a God figure, let's say of the Hindu pantheon.  You might work on looking through the wisdom eye until you can actually see the Light, then work to see Krishna.  Then work on feeling what/how Krishna feels.  Then BE Krishna.  In the western model, you look through the wisdom eye until you see the tarot key.  Then you feel the attributes of that key, then you become that key.  Then move to the next key and so on.  Moving up the tree is as good a model as any although some try to move down the tree.
One word of warning.  If you use Tarot ONLY use the tarot the inner school has placed with a school of wisdom.  DO NOT do this with 99% of the so-called tarot decks around.  The inner school has only, to my knowledge, authorized 2 decks.
A third method would be to obtain a copy of a book I believe was published in the UK .  The author was Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and the book refers to a rosary used in Atlantis.  This is strong meat so if it is too tough, back off and use one of the above concepts...but better still, get into an esoteric school and learn valid ways that produce good results.
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Radha

[paladinblake]

hey hey,

before i start, i'm just a starting member, so feel free to correct me.  but for me there is one method that i actually came up with, though i'm not sure if i was the first.  i think of the mind as a flowing place where thoughts swirl and converge.  so i see thoughts in my head as kind of little squares showing scenes like a wall of TVs. as i breathe in, one more thought comes in, but as i breathe out, two or more thoughts leave.  now when i first started, i moved each thought directly, but as i continued over weeks, i started seeing just the amount, i got the sense of a lot, then a smaller amount then a group of five.  at that point i always did the individual ones. i breathed in there were six, breathed out making four, in for five, out for three, in for four, out for two, in for three, out for one, in for two, and those last two went out. i keep my eyes closed the whole time.  when all thoughts leave, i feel my inner eye close, even though my eyes have been closed. and i could feel a darkness so deep and penatrating, not a bad darkness, but a calming one.  then i precede to do what i had planned the meditaion for.  most of the time, i used the darkness for mind training. if you want info on that, go to i think www.undergrounddragon.tripod.com/theunderground
in one of the sections it explains mind training.  but one time when i was really mad at my brothers, right after we had had a fight, i closed my eyes and meditated. once i felt the darkness, i found that my anger melted away.  so this is what i suggest, but as other people have said, "each person to their own". find the way that works for you. please post ur results.

-Paladin

[GODS_SERVANT]

A good way that I have learned to meditate is by breathing in through my nose and saying to myself in my head Jesus Son of GOD and then breathing out through my mouth while still saying to myself in my head Have Mercy On Me. It actually sends a jolt of pure energy through my body and makes me feel great when I am done........I'd recommend it to anybody.

[keo373]

i just wanted to know if anybody could give me their opinion on what is the best way to meditate