Meditation Articles

While not the first person to teach meditation in the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has been one of the more influential meditation teachers of our times. You probably recognize his photo even if you didn't recognize his name. And if his photo isn’t familiar to you, chances are good that you would know him as the person who founded TM® or Transcendental Meditation®. What you may not know is that he is also the founder of Maharishi International University, a school located in a small town called Fairfield, Iowa.

Nowadays, majority of the population is suffering from one or the other health problem. Whenever we fall sick we rush to doctor who give us a list of medicines and we blindly follow them. We should stop, think and evaluate that medicines we are taking today as remedy to current illness will it prove harmful afterward? There are many medicines which cure the disease but have many side effects and if they are ignored they can result into serious problems hence we need to be very careful and sensible while consuming drugs. Are herbal medicines absolutely harmless?

This is my second article on meditation. I would like to talk a little about the neuroscience behind altered states of consciousness such as meditation, relaxation and hypnosis. I will also let you know about a not so old, but still relatively new and unique method of producing these deep meditative states quickly and easily. I am about to introduce and explain the relatively new technology of binaural beats. This technology is fantastic and can bring you all the benefits tha

The spiritual reality is the wisdom of consciousness that is beyond our wisdom of thought. Beyond the Cosmos, the spiritual reality is what we know as God. The spiritual reality is that God is the creator of all in the physical world. Spiritual reality of God is timeless, motionless, endless, unlimited and complete.

Meditation students often come to me and ask what they can do to improve their meditation. Success in meditation is not the result of any one single factor but depends on sustained and systematic effort over a period of time. However, there are a few tips for meditation, that will help you to improve your performance, regardless of the meditation method that you follow. 1. Prepare your body for meditatio Your physical condition has a tremendous influence on your mind. This

© Jacob Newell (Gu Shen Yu Daoshi) For me Daoist practice means looking inside and going back to the original beginning. One of Laozi’s primary principles is “return” (fu, å¤). For Westerners who tend to view our existential situation as “paradise lost,” return is akin to “paradise regained.” When I started practicing meditatio I initially approached it as though it was gradually washing away the stain of original sin, and I assumed this purifying process could only be accomplished after arduous cultivation and transformation.

When People tell me that they meditate for hours. I have a difficult time believing them. I’ve been meditating for almost ten years, and I can’t sit still for more than twenty-minutes. My legs start to get rigid. My back begins to hurt. My fingers start fidgeting. I start to lose concentration as invading thoughts start to explode through my mind like bombs from a terrorist attack. Then, the tics start to come, followed by involuntary movements that are highly disruptive. Th

There is an old rule: The one who stays silent is criticised. The one who talks too much is also criticised. Even the one who speaks only a little is criticised. There is no-one in the world who is never criticised. Dhammapada: verse 227 Criticism is a part of our life, whether we give it or receive it, it is always there. For the one who gives it, it is a way to show power and control, for the one who receives it is a humiliation. However, it is a fact of life and no matter who we are or what we do, as long as we have life we will always be in the place to receive it.r

When starting a spiritual journey it is normal to have many questions and too little information. The best source of information that you will ever find lies within your heart. Deep introspection is the best way to find your inner self and the answer to any question you can think of. Meditation is the door to within. I often hear from my students that they want to spend time in meditation and introspection but just can’t make it happen on a regular basis. Unfortunately, they

Better than your Guru? No joke is intended. Read this and you’ll know how to meditate better tha Gurus past and present. You’ll be free of the problem that limits success in all forms of meditation: mind’s uncontrollable wandering. Even Gurus are plagued by drifting and dreaming; time spent wandering when they’d hoped for attention. Now an easy solution makes success a sure thing. The solution is “feedback.” Here’s how it works and how to use it. Why Meditation Needs Feedback Attention is the key to success in meditation. Attention makes meditation work.

If you have ever tried to walk with only one leg, you have discovered, for yourself, the importance of two legs. Likewise, when we meditate, two aspects of meditation are necessary if our practice is to be balanced. Samadhi (concentration) and Vipassana (mindfulness) are the two aspects that ...

Perhaps the most important concept or discipline I can teach you is “Earnestness”. When I was younger, while I had been introduced to mediation, I wasn’t earnest in practicing it until later in life when I realized how mediation so closely related to my own growth as a person. For me, it was a process in learning how important meditation was to my life and my growth in life. I had to first realize that meditation was a good experience. I enjoyed it but, until I learned about how meditation was a basis for growth, I wasn’t earnest about it.

OMNIPURE GUIDED MEDITATIONS In 2004, Kirkland and Laura Ross envisioned a Hologram Photon Light Sphere that surrounds the body and serves as an advanced educational tool for the mind and body to re-member everything that you choose to experience from any reference point in time. During meditation we are able to access the core of the sphere where healing, clarity, connection, and informational downloads are processed and handled. "What we offer you is a powerful tool to acces

Meditation is the practice of understanding. It is training the mind and the body to observe and gain knowledge about specific energies and aspects of consciousness. As the body and mind becomes familiar with the language of these energies, a communication is realized and formed. This communication is the catalyst to understanding.nnOften understanding is perceived to merely mean intellectual realizations. In truth understanding can be defined as ‘knowing.’ It is

© Jacob Newell (Gu Shen Yu Daoshi) When it comes to cultivating qi, there is no question that Laozi suggests we take a gradual approach. “A tree too large to embrace starts as a tiny shoot; a 9-story terrace starts as a mound of earth; the journey of 1,000 li happens under the feet” (Ch. 64). Not only does Laozi advise us not to dismiss the collective results of small, seemingly insignificant actions, but he repeatedly cautions against straining to achieve those results. “Take long strides and you will not progress; assert yourself and you will not advance” (Ch. 24).

In the natural cycle of things, integrity and the defining element of grace expresses itself best by those who humbly remain on speaking terms with the changing spirit of the times. In this conversation, reverent attention to something largely unseen is the rule and the blind pursuit of obvious ...

Yoga is the experience of control and calm persistence of thought in the mind with consciousness raised. Consciousness is a reflection of the true soul in your mind. Consciousness is life in the universe of pure subtle where it meets your selfishness in your physical life. Your mind is impure, like Looking Glass, which reflects the thoughts of selfishness updated with information from the senses of sight, smell, taste and hearing. Your selfishness is impure consciousness. Pure Soul can not be tested before having a clear conscience.

You've probably noticed that talk about mindfulness meditation is much more common than it was just a few years ago. Today, I hear about mindfulness meditation from a variety of different sources: on the news, television talk shows, online, and most often in conversation. It wasn't long ago that people who meditated were considered to be on the fringes of society. In the 60s and 70s, they were called hippies. In the 80s and 90s, they were called new-agers.

It's four p.m. I have been napping and doing walking meditation since the morning meal. My hut is deep in the forest, situated on the upper end of a massive, flat rock, with large, flat rocks on both sides and deep ravines separating them (havens for cobras). Surrounding everything is dense ...

There is an awakening of consciousness occurring within humanity. You are part of a small but rapidly growing segment of the population that is awakening. You are amongst the first to develop that inner knowing and who recognize the shift in consciousness that is occurring in the world. Spirit ...

The following is an article originally published on the authors site, "The journal of Wayne Wirs" - http://www.waynewirs.com:nnnDo you experience these symptoms? 1. You act in ways that are in opposition to the way you think you should act. 2. Thoughts in your mind seem real, sometimes more real than the chair you are sitting in. 3. You think you have control of your thoughts and yet you can't hold the simple image of a speck of dust in your mind for more than five seconds

That which caused life within us is us. The life force energy, or spirit, that animates our own existence is an expression of the consciousness that lies at the very core of our being. The same spirit that is causing my heart to beat is also causing yours to. This underlying spirit is creating ...

Enlightenment can take a long time, perhaps as long as it takes to wear a granite mountain down to the ground by a fine veil brushing its top once every hundred years, or perhaps as long as a lifetime, or a year, or perhaps in only a week, as the Buddha proclaims, if you can maintain perfect ...

Zafus - Creating Proper Posture DailyrnMeditation has been practiced for thousands of years in Eastern cultures as a means of finding truth and enlightenment. Today it has been picked up by many westerners as a means of relieving stress and strain in their daily lives. However, many westerners find the traditional lotus sitting position on the bare ground a bit too strenuous on their bottom and legs; therefore, the use of a zafu is recommended to provide greater comfort. A za

East Meets West Meditation of one style or another can be found in most of the major religions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. Eastern religions tend to concentrate on Meditation as a means of developing spiritual enlightenment and as a pathway to experiencing ultimate ...

The goal of human life, according to yogis and sages, is to unite one’s individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness. This union of one’s small “I” with the Cosmic “I” is also known as yoga. Anyone who has ever tried to meditate knows that achieving the final goal of yoga is not as easy as it sounds. Many people, in fact, give up the pursuit before they reach the goal. Despite this seeming difficulty there is a simple technique that can put the achievement of ultim

You know the routine; picking out that special card with just the right verses, and then that special gift - an upscale box of candy, some flowers, maybe a nice ring, a new car, or some tickets for a cruise. According to Wikipedia, The historical background of Valentine's day seems to go back ...

An interview with Dhamma master Michael Kewley by Leonie Gschwendtberger rn'Dhamma is simple. Live with love and be aware. It is only the mind that complicates this teaching and says that it is not enough. The mind, invested as it is in fascination and distraction from simply being, always seeks something outside the reality of the moment.'rn- Michael Kewley On Being One With The Reality Of Life

Human nature is looking for happiness in different things and focuses on people liked and things, and become the enemy of the people and things have not helped. This impurity causes in mind. To clean the impurities in mind that it has caused, the man has used various types of meditation techniques of yoga for centuries.

After teaching meditation to thousands of people, when I ask what sorts of problems they encounter with their practice, I hear the same three answers again and again. The problem I hear the most frequently is that people can't quiet their minds. They refer to having "monkey mind," or tell me, "I can't stop thinking." Sometimes they say they have "negative self-talk," or other unhappy thoughts they can't get rid of. The second complaint on the list is not having enough time.

Friends often talk to me about the hours they spend doing triathlons or running marathons, and usually I say that I can't imagine doing something I love for so many hours. So it surprises me to remember that I once spent three days chanting Hindu mantras, non-stop, at the top of my lungs. This is sometimes called japa, or Indian meditation music. Sometimes it's just called crazy. These days, a lot of people are only familiar with chanting music meditation through the work of the popular performer, Krishna Das.

Is meditation meant to be a relaxation system? I wonder about that. When I was eighteen, I was introduced to a famous American meditation teacher and we became friends. Through him, I met another American who had spent the prior six years in Thailand as a Buddhist monk. This former monk had only recently returned to the US and traded out his monk's robes for regular clothing. He was still working out what his "right livelihood" might be - you know, work that would pay him enough to cover his food and rent.

How much time do you spend at the office? Do you spend more time there than you spend at home? Challenges such as an over demanding boss, self serving colleagues,long hours and high levels of stress are more the norm in business than ever before. How can you cope with these difficult ...

Online coaching has proven incredibly effective with bringing amazing life change for those seeking it. While online coaching at first had challenges around people's perceptions of whether better results required them to be in the same room, having face-to-face coaching. Many online coaching clients have since discovered for themselves that connecting with a great online coach, via apps such as Skype, has actually helped them achieve results far in excess of what that had achieved previously. r

Meditation for personal transformation - Coming into Purpose and Keeping the Flow of Living Life as we Age! - By Lynn Gardner 8/08/2008 The oldest baby boomer is approaching 65 years of age and the majority expected to live well into their 90”s. We have not yet reached this age groups ...

Many academics, scientists and philosophers do not accept consciousness as there is nothing organic to conclude. They consider that the functions of the mind are all at the center of the physical body. Many other people perceive and accept as by faith. Rare is the pious person who has experienced it and love to live in its serenity. Spiritual consciousness is who you are and do not have a physical origin. Mental physical functions provide an opportunity for spiritual awareness to survive the physical world. Mind functions come and go, or rise and fall on demand.

Approximately 100 million people die every year.That's a lot of people. Death is a common occurrence, but we hide from death's reality in many ways. In third world countries, there is no funeral director that takes care of everything and neatly makes up the body as if it is asleep. In third ...

Metta is a quintessentially Buddhist term often translated as lovingkindness, It is the philosophy and practice of unconditional love for others which isn’t marred by our own self-interests, but is instead a genuine hope for physical and mental prosperity starting with ourselves and those closest to us and rippling out towards all living beings in its perfect form. By practicing Metta, we reach out with our minds and our wishes with the intention of reducing pain and sufferin

Take the Meditation Challenge: How to Develop the "Habit" of Meditation and Live from the Inside Out. Gandhi said, “Peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outer circumstances.” What if you could truly experience inner peace regardless of what’s going on exte ally? How would it FEEL ...

Many of us put a lot of pressure upon ourselves to achieve. When we don’t live up to our expectations, we are often very hard on ourselves. Furthermore, we have an incredible tendency to compare ourselves to other people. If we don’t live up to these imaginary lines of success that we have created in our heads, then we suffer. I want to offer an alte ative to this suffering, a lesson we can all learn, courtesy of my six-year-old daughter.

Discover How Meditation Can Change Your Lifer In the current state of affairs in the world, people are always in a rush to get things done as fast as they can and end up building up stress. This has led to the emergence of lifestyle diseases. These include high blood pressure, diabetes among others. One can avoid all this trouble if they spared just a small portion of their time to engage in meditation. The procedure is easy and does not require formal training. Some of the b

You can practice meditation in many ways, and yet all of them are revolving around the same main aspects: to live the present moment, to shut down your thoughts, to pay attention to whatever is happening both inside and outside your mind, and to simply become an observant. And the best thing is that you can practice meditation anywhere. As simple as it seems to be, meditation has incredible power over our mind and body. In today’s article, we’re going to focus on meditation’

LETTING INTUITION WORK FOR YOU The psychologist Carl Jung was once asked if he believed in God. He responded I don’t just believe, I know. Intuitives often feel the same way, many of you as readers don’t just believe it exists, you know it does. Intuition is just another sense like seeing, hearing or smelling. It’s a sense we all share.

"Restless man's mind, How shall he tame it? Truly I think the wind is no wilder." The words echo down through the centuries. All who meditate share the complaint. You sit down to meditate. You try to attend. More often than not, your mind wanders. Attention is all but impossible to sustain. Today, a new method solves the problem. It’s known as “straight line meditation.” It uses visual feedback (sensations of light) to stop the wandering. Here’s how it works. Feedback - What You Need To Succeed

As we go through our daily lives, we tend to forget to make a pause from all the clamors of circadian life. Why don’t we break off for a moment and contemplate just to unclog all those worldly stuff and breathe in some fresh air. We need that from time to time to make our lives more bearable to live. Meditation is the clearing out of all those clutters of a daily life away from your mind, such as, your daily routine, appointments and chores. And, free your mind from worries,

© Copyright 2004nnAt the close of the year, we often find ourselves thinking ahead to the next year. We think about all the things we didn't accomplish this year, and vow to accomplish them next year. Few of us take the time to reflect on the past year and look at our successes and the experiences that we have learned from.n nBefore you start thinking about New Year's Resolutions, take some time to meditate on the year that's gone by. Doing so will allow you to reflect on wh

Often we feel disconnected from the lives of others. We see people who seem to have so much good fortune and success in the material sense that we wonder how they could ever complain about their life. We fail to realise that suffering and unhappiness are aspects of mind common to all beings, and that our judgements are really only a manifestation of our own jealousies, fears and insecurities. It is so easy to tell others just to 'let go' of some emotional crisis and then to explain exactly what we would do in their situation.

Have you ever gone through a day when you’re very, very busy and you have to get things done so even though you are hungry you just keep going and slowly that hunger sensation turns into a headache? I’ve seen this happen to my wife a lot when she’s busy and she just forgets about, or puts aside eating and a few hours later she gets a terrible headache. It can happen to a lot of us; we just get busy, we don’t focus on what our bodies are doing, and things go wrong. Our bodies and our minds are connected.

Stress management exercises can be used by anyone at anytime, no matter what form of stress we each have to deal with. We all have stress in our lives, sometimes it is daily stress from work and home life that is minimal, but builds up when we don’t get a break. Other forms of stress can be more extreme such as dealing with immediate trauma, relationship problems, recovering from addictions.

When it comes to living in the moment and being more enlightened, you might have some questions that you’d like answered. For instance, you might be saying, “Dr. Puff, how do I reach that point? Is there anything I can do to speed up the process of waking up and of having a life filled with the present?”