Meditation

The sound meditation arrived from the Latin meditation and the meaning of meditation is every type of physical or intellectual exercise. In meditation is a type of exercise where you concentrate on an object of thought or awareness.

• Meditation means thoughtful and is part of disciplines which include variety of spiritual or psychophysical practices which can increase your mental concentration or the apparent converse, mental quiescence.
• The term Meditation also defined as self regulation of attention means a self-inquiry.
• There are several techniques of meditation but it can be utilized according to their focus. A few focus on the subject or background awareness and experience which called as mindfulness.
• Focus also called as concentrative meditation where concentration on a preselected specific object. In focus there are also techniques that shift between the field and the object.

What is the meditation?

There are various types of meditation - prayer is probably the best known, but there is also TM (Transcendental Meditation), mindfulness meditation, and from the Eastern tradition, Zen meditation, Buddhist meditation, and Taoist meditation.

Outline Of Meditation

Meditation as in Hinduism

• The oldest religion of the Hinduism that professess meditation as a spiritual and religious practice. In devanagari there are six yoga school of Hindu philosophy which is focusing on meditation. Yoga is a part of both physiological and spiritual mastery.
• There are different type of yoga such as vedanta, raja yoga, surat shabd yoga, japa yoga, bhakti yoga, hatha yoga.

Meditation as in Islam

• Meditation in Islam is the core of Muslim mystical traditions. In the islam tradition meditation means peacefulness, which is believed to have a quality of healing and creativity.
• There are two type of mediation called as tafakkur and sufi meditation.
• Tafakkur meditation which means concentration, concentration of abilities, convergent, collection, compaction, and consolidation
• Sufi meditation is similar to Buddhist meditation.

New Age Meditation

• In the 1979 Meditation workshop in the new zealand.
• New age meditations are frequently prejudiced by Eastern philosophy and mysticism for example yoga, hinduism and buddhism, still might contain some degree of Western influence.
• Meditation is scientifically confirmed to decrease stress or anxiety, cure phobias and obsessive thoughts, refresh your confidence, relieve feelings of depression, improve concentration and focus, increase motivation, heal addictive, traits, experience improved relationships, solve many sleep problems, help people who suffer panic attacks.