Meditation

[420RoundTheClock]

Wow I cant belive it but meditation actually works. Its awsome, heres what I do is when Im going to sleep I just concentrate on my breathing and you you get a body high sorta. For me my body gets numb, then I just forget about it even being there along with the rest of the world, and once you forget about your body you can do all kinds of fun shit. Like I can think that I am falling and it will actually feel like Im falling, or floating. Like I can think of my body but in my head instead, sounds weird I know but its pretty sweet, its like dreaming with your body. Plus after awhile you just fall asleep.

Now Im not religious in the least bit, and I have not be working at this, its just something to do before I fall asleep and it works.

[MegaOctane12]

This is a proven relaxation technique that I use, its not meditation but it redresses the oxygen-cardon dioxide in the body and promotes a feeling of calmness.

Take a deep breath in through your nose for a slow count of four (imagine the air filling your stomach, not lungs, and feel it expand)

Hold for a slow count of four

Breate out through your mouth for a slow count of four (imagine your stomach pushing the air out)

Repeat three or four times (no more)

This works for me, its a proven way to relax, I've got into the habit of doing it when I feel tense.

[beachguy in thongs]

Now Im not religious in the least bit, and I have not be working at this, its just something to do before I fall asleep and it works.

You don't consider yourself "religious", but, you'd be suprised what "religion" can do for you.

* Hinduism - many different schools exist.

- Vedanta is a principle branch of Hindu philosophy, a form of yoga which involves an individual seeking "the path of intellectual analysis or the discrimination of truth and reality.
- Yoga as outlined by Patanjali describes eight "limbs" of spiritual practices, half of which might be classified as meditation. Underlying them is the assumption that a yogi should still the fluctuations of his or her mind: Yoga cittavrrti nirodha.
- Transcendental Meditation (or TM) is the type used most often in clinical studies. Though avowedly secular, it emphasizes the recitation of Hindu mantras. A mantra is a religious syllable or poem.
- Sant Mat (an esoteric religious movement active in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and especially India) teaches "sound and light meditation" (surat shabd yoga)
- Osho (a Zen Buddhist priest) taught a wide variety of meditative techniques, including a "laughing meditation".

*Sikhism (a religion based on the teachings of ten Gurus who lived primarily in 16th and 17th century India) encourages the divine meditation on God's name, through simran (the vocal repetition or recital of the God Names: Naam or of the Holy Text from the Two Granths of the Sikhs: the Sri Guru Granth Sahib and the Dasam Granth).

*Buddhist meditation â?? Meditation has always enjoyed a central place within Buddhism. The Buddha himself was said to have achieved enlightenment while meditating under a Bodhi tree. Most forms of Buddhism distinguish between samatha and vipassana meditation.
- Chinese Chan Buddhism (Sanskrit Dhyana, Japanese Zen) emphasizes ts'o ch'an and kung an meditation practices.
- Tibetan Buddhism famously emphasizes tantra for its senior practitioners; hence its alternate name of Vajrayana Buddhism.

*Taoism â?? includes a number of meditative and contemplative traditions.

*Judaism â?? Although Kabbalah and Hassidic Judaism have the explicit concept of meditation (Hebrew hitbonenut), one can reasonably argue that a good deal of Jewish prayer (tefillah) is meditative.

*Christian traditions have various practices which might be identified as forms of "meditation." Many of these are monastic practices.

[420RoundTheClock]

No for me I see religion as something that people have made so that their lives dont seem like its all on them and that their is nothing to strive for. It also keeps people in check too, cuz if there was no religion most people would not have many morals.

Thats why I like buddism cuz as far as I know about it is that is about buddah, who from what I know was just a guy, a smart guy but still just a guy not some special god like thing.

[FunkyMonkey]

Wow I cant belive it but meditation actually works. Its awsome, heres what I do is when Im going to sleep I just concentrate on my breathing and you you get a body high sorta. For me my body gets numb, then I just forget about it even being there along with the rest of the world, and once you forget about your body you can do all kinds of fun shit. Like I can think that I am falling and it will actually feel like Im falling, or floating. Like I can think of my body but in my head instead, sounds weird I know but its pretty sweet, its like dreaming with your body. Plus after awhile you just fall asleep.

Now Im not religious in the least bit, and I have not be working at this, its just something to do before I fall asleep and it works.


The most successful breathing technique I use is this"

I draw air slowly and deeply through my nose. I imagine that I am breathing in a white light.
As I do so I imagine that at first the air/light/energy is entering my lower gut and expanding each cell and loosening negative stored energy. As I draw in more breath I imagine that it is expanding my middle then upper chest and filling my lungs to their full capacity.
Then I hold it for a slow 3 count. During this 3 count I am compacting the negative energy into the area of my upper chest.
On 3 I exhale sharply and audibly through my mouth...forcing out the negative energy and expelling it clear of my energy field where it will be cleansed by the universal love surrounding me.
I repeat this 2 more times, no more, no less for a total of 3.
Each time I inhale this loving energy it cleanses me more deeply and thoroughly and replaces my negative energy and stress with a calming loving white light that begins to change my vibrational rate to begin to seperate my consciousness from my physical body.

I do this to relieve stress, meditate, project, go to sleep, dream, and to open my awareness to the non physical that surrounds me.
Woks for me.

peace.