Meditation

AWARENESS:  Brings the mind in touch with the body. You have feet but are you aware of them? You have breath but are you aware of it? You actually become aware of your feet touching the floor or how it feels to walk. You concentrate on your breath how it tickles your nose when you exhale. Reiki, an ancient healing art, is a classic example of awareness meditation.

CONTEMPLATION:  Have you ever noticed the wonder of a child, the miracle of a sunset, the true meaning of a poem or the expanse of the universe? Then you have practiced contemplation meditation. Contemplation asks you to look and let the thing show itself to you. Enter our virtual contemplation of the galaxy.

MANTRA: This is the discipline of repeating a word or phrase over and over to find inner peace.

MINDFULNESS REALIZATION OR TRANSCENDENTAL:  The art of being awake and aware. It's the concept of doing what you are doing when your doing it". You should do one activity at a time doing two or three tasks at a time is draining. Most of us consider doing two and three tasks at a time an achievement. Not so. This meditation will focus you on the one activity at hand and thus full efficiency.

MOVEMENT:  Meditation with movement. It is practiced by a rock climber a dancer or a martial artist. Michael Jordan said that when he plays basketball an invisible wall is set up around the court, he has no pressures and feels he is in a meditative state  Whenever we express ourselves with movement we are meditating.

REFLECTIVE: Also known as rational meditation. You try to make sense or find the meaning in something. Decision making social therapy studying and literary analysis are all examples of this meditation.

SOUNDING AND CHANTING:  This type of meditation is practiced by most religions and cultures. Native American chant, Gregorian chanting and Christian hymns are all part of sounding meditation.