active meditation helps to become more focused on a task, such as movement coordination, or courses of action.
active meditation is to focus your awareness on thoughts of the object you are meditating on. in your case, that would be spirituality.


passive meditation is to clear your mind, a good way to begin active meditation is to start by clearing your mind.

passive meditation is also helpful in stressful times and when you are just highly roused and/or angry.

if you need to chill out, passive meditation is very useful, but by no means an easy thing to just pick up and run with. we are most often used to running thought-to-thought, jumping from one to the next, never giving ourselves a moment to rest our minds; and passive meditation is quite the opposite of that. it will take practice to get fully used to pushing out thoughts and just clearing your mind.

lastly, there is a method of meditation i have picked up on. it is awareness meditation.
rather than trying to clear your mind, or to focus your thoughts, just be aware of everything in and around you. your thoughts, your thinking patterns, everything, just take it all in, and study it without thought of it. observe it for future reference in active meditation.


it is difficult to focus your awareness on all your senses, but there are some immediate benefits of this practice pertaining to the other methods of meditation, as well as generally being an aware and coherent person.