Seated Meditation (zazen): Zen Buddhist practice of sitting and meditating on ordinary conscious experience for long periods of time.

 (See also: Seated Meditation, Eastern Philosophy, Body Mind and Soul)

Meditation:

a technique of mind control with the goals of feeling an inner calm and peacefulness, profound experiences of self-realization and transcendental awareness. Meditation is a discipline found in many of the world's religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, but it is also advocated by many practitioners of holistic health for its impact on stress-related disease.

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Meditation Sutra

One of the three core sutras of the Pure Land school.

It teaches sixteen methods of visualizing Amitabha Buddha, the Bodhisattvas and the Pure Land. This sutra stresses the element of meditation in Pure Land.

See also "Three Pure Land Sutras," "Vaidehi," "Visualization."

 (See also: Meditation Sutra, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Meditation: A range of practices that involve training one’s attention or awareness so that body and mind can be brought into greater harmony. The stilling of one’s thoughts in a variety of practices such as sitting or walking mindfully, which stimulates the “relaxation response” and supports healing. Goals range from reducing stress or lowering blood pressure to achieving a mystical sense of oneness with a higher power.

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Meditation: A mental technique, meditation helps to focus and calm the mind, creating a restful state of physical being.

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Meditative Postures

Yoni Mudra

·  Close your ears with thumbs.

·  Cover your eyes with your index finger.

·  Close your nostrils with your middle fingers.

·  Press your lips together with your remaining fingers.

·  Release the middle fingers gently to inhale and exhale while you meditate.

Frontal & Nasal Gazing

·  Gaze at a point between your eyebrows, seat of the 'Third Eye' or at the tip or your nose.

·  This would improve your level of concentration. At the same time, strengthening your eye muscles. Nasal gazing has a positive effect on the central nervous system.

·  Remember not to strain your eyes. Start with one minute of gazing and then slowly build it up to ten minutes.

Candle Gazing

• Place a candle at eye-level in a darkened, draught-free room.
• Close your eyes and hold an after-image of the bright flame.

The practice steadies the wandering mind, leading you to focus with pin-point accuracy.

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Meditation:

According to Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of mind/body medicine, meditation can be broadly defined as any activity that keeps the attention pleasantly anchored in the present moment. When the mind is calm and focused in the present, it is neither reacting to memories from the past nor being preoccupied with plans for the future, two major sources of chronic stress known to impact health. “Meditation,” says Dr. Borysenko, “helps to keep us from identifying with the ‘movies of the mind.’”

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Meditation

Although meditation is most often associated with Eastern practices such as Buddhism, every spiritual practice, including Christianity, has similar techniques for the purpose of gaining insight, assessing and managing life processes (physiological, mental, emotional, spiritual), enhancing performance or to just plain relax. These techniques include specific postures and/or activities such as sitting or walking, conscious breathing, observing thoughts and emotions, in order to attain calm, contentment, resolution or realization.

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Meditation: A mental technique for deep relaxation, meditation helps to focus and calm the mind. It may be used to heal the body, quiet the mind, and provide a sense of inner balance.

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MEDITATION: Discipline in which the mind is focused on a single point of reference. Employed since ancient times in various forms by all religions, the practice gained greater notice in the postwar U.S. as interest in Zen Buddhism rose.

Meditation is now used by many nonreligious adherents as a method of stress reduction; known to lower levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress. Enhances recuperation and improves the bodyÕs resistance to disease.

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Meditation

A technique of mind control that leads to inner feelings of calm and peacefulness and may result in experiences of transcendental awareness and self-realization. The two main types of meditation are

(1)  the focusing type, similar to self-hypnosis, in which the meditator focuses on a repetitive sound or chant, an image, or pattern of breathing;

(2)  the "opening-up" type which emphasizes the detached observation of mental events as they occur.

(See also: Meditation, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Meditation: The practice of inverting the mind to pay attention to the inner silence instead of the outer chaos. Other forms of meditation focus on the outer chaos instead. The practice of meditation is accepted in almost all religions, but is encouraged most in Buddhism.

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Meditation

A technique of mind control that leads to inner feelings of calm and peacefulness and may result in experiences of transcendental awareness and self-realization. The two main types of meditation are

(1)  the focusing type, similar to self-hypnosis, in which the meditator focuses on a repetitive sound or chant, an image, or pattern of breathing;

(2)  the "opening-up" type which emphasizes the detached observation of mental events as they occur.

(See also: Meditation, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Reiki Meditation: Meditation system that involves the "healing power of Reiki." It can bring on clairvoyance and release or transmute "negative energy."

(See also: Reiki Meditation, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Transcendental Meditation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded TM in 1957. TM is a means of experiencing "pure awareness." It involves sitting comfortably, with eyes closed, for 15 to 20 minutes twice a day while one mentally repeats a mantra. In TM, a mantra purportedly is a "thought-sound" that has a known vibratory effect but does not have a designative meaning. The TM teacher chooses a mantra suitable for the initiate.

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TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION

In the mid-nineteenth century, a man was born into the “Tradition of Masters” in India, and who later became a guiding light in the proliferation of knowledge of the cosmos. He was affectionately known as Guru Dev, and according to this tradition, after he had attained illumination, he was Master to a number of disciples, amongst whom was His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

In 1958 Maharishi was directed by Guru Dev to teach Transcendental Meditation in the West, and so began a marvelous odyssey of one man to help bring peace to the world through this remarkable, formal technique of deep meditation. It is now believed that more than eight million people have learned this technique all over the world, and which has been rigorously subjected to more than five hundred research studies also all over the world, and by some of the world’s most prestigious medical establishments. And so has Transcendental Meditation been supported with all this scientific research, to show that a simple, easy, natural, and effortless mental technique can produce such remarkable physiological, mental and emotional responses.

By practicing Transcendental Meditation twice daily for twenty minutes each time, you can expect to feel relaxed, calm, energetic, dynamic, mentally alert, peaceful, efficient, and a sense of well being. The list is endless, but suffice it to say that this technique is one of the most powerful means we have to eliminate stress easily, naturally and effectively.

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MEDITATION: A technique of mind control that often leads to a feeling of inner calm and peacefulness, and may result in profound experiences of self-realization and transcendental awareness.

Meditation is a discipline found in many of the world's religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, but it is also advocated by many practitioners of holistic health for its impact on stress-related disease.

(See also: Meditation for health, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

TaeUIJu Healing Meditation (TaeUIJu, TaeUIJu healing, TaeUIJu meditation): Mode of meditation promoted by JeungSanDo, an organization founded in 1871 by Supreme Lord JeungSan SangJeNim, in Korea. , TaeUIJu meditation is a process of returning to the magnanimous bosom of the original Mother, and the first step to eternal life.

The practice of TaeUIJu amounts to

á      sitting comfortably and

á      repeatedly, patiently chanting a mantra whose meaning is that one wants to return to the Origin of the Universe.

JeungSanDo defines mantra as a set of words that contain concentrated energy of the universe. The aforementioned Origin can cure all mental and physical illnesses. the original healing mantra, called TaeUIJu, protects one from sudden accidents and helps to fight disease and to resolve conflicts. the leading teacher of TaeUIJu meditation in the United States is Jaenam Kim, author of The Road to Awakening.

(See also: TaeUIJu Healing Meditation, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Inner Smile (Inner Smile Meditation, "inner smile" technique): A fundamental component of the Healing Tao System. Inner Smile is a relaxation technique that allegedly increases the flow of chi. Practitioners "smile inwardly" at organs and glands.

(See also: Inner Smile Meditation, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

TM (Transcendental Meditation)

Spiritual movement founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi stressing mantra, 1959

(See also: TM (Transcendental Meditation, Body Mind and Soul)

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