Tips for the Meditation page in Library

[Arrowoferos]

I wish to start a page on Meditation in the library, please put any tips you have here and i will put them on the page. also any techniques you know described as closely as possible
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[Stygian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_applications_and_clinical_studies_of_meditation

Specifically:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_applications_and_clinical_studies_of_meditation#Meditation_and_the_brain

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_applications_and_clinical_studies_of_meditation#Meditation_and_Perception

Just some science to back up claims and such.
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[Arrow_of_eros]

thanks, but any known special techniques?

[onazzer]

for mediatation the biggest mistake is trying to clear your mind, although many people say that is what meditation is about its almost imposssible it is easier and much more possible to set ones focus on one things and controling our thought process allowing thoughts to be controlled, even focus on your breathing if that works.................basically mediatation is about focus transforming your mind so that you can unlock its potential ...think of it this way your brain has millilions of thoughts every day just poping into our head at any given time , now imagine what you could acomplish if you were to beable to focus on just 20 or even 1000 a day imagine how much more powerful your thought process could be ...instead of being like those cartoon squirrels or dogs we grew up watching darting around from subject to subject
this is why many lucid dreamers use meditation as a skill it helps them to focus there mind on lucid dreaming.
-onaazer
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[mayanightstar]

I would very much like a meditation page in the library!! Its always interested me, but I haven't been very good at it.
I've tried meditating a few times on my own and have come up with a few techniques. I don't know how well they work, or if they work at all, so please make sure you try them out or something before posting them. But I'll tell you anyway.
For me, I first clear my mind a bit. I don't, like, tell my brain to shut up or else, but I try to stop lingering on thoughts and just let my brain do its little brain chatter thing (you know what I mean). I usually meditate late in the day or at night, and spend some time just, like, organizing my memories of the day. I have a pretty terrible memory for things, and I'm really spacey, so I thought I'd maybe try this. It's actually helped! Well, anyway, so I push my "brain chatter" a bit towards just remembering images, thoughts, sounds, etc of the day. I don't force myself, I just let my mind do it naturally. (That's a good point! You should maybe use that :3) Then I just kind of organize my memories in my mind. I know it sounds kind of silly... But it seemed to work for me.
Um, so... that's my suggestion... Use it if you'd like.
The page on meditating still sounds like a good idea, though. I look forward to it!!! :3
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[Chee]

I was raised from childhood with meditation from a Buddhist perspective, so here's my take on it. I'm not saying these ideas or techniques are the best, or that you need to be buddhist to do any of this... just some more ideas : )

[sharingan]

it would be nice to have a thing like that in the Library
its really hard to talk about meditation because there are a lot of them
I thin that the image streaming meditation is really awesome ,watch this video
It will give u some material for the library =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzlF7neZOv0
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