There are researches going on for benefits of meditation such as improved immune, mindfulness etc...
Any of you has experiecne with meditation?
For me, I have tried meditation for 10 days and it does make me more tolerable to life stresses. May be my concentration also improves as well.
How about your experience?
I've meditated on Bible verses before - but as far as I know, there are a few types of meditation. It does really help you, it slows you down, it's almost like waking-sleep. It's rejuvinating (spelling?).
I think its definately worthwhile. I myself perform Tai Chi. I believe it helps to relax mind and body for a while, meditating is just a period of time to think and feel without anything else going on. Concentrate on things and such. Definately worth it in my book.
I think it's a great activity to be engaged in. The problem comes in finding the time to do so...
I had studied it and looked up information on it a while back. I use it to clear my mind of all thoughts because when this happens, I believe you can open doors to new parts of your mind. I generally sit in my room in the dark and listen to music. After a while, the music suddenly takes a hold of you and it is like floating in a dark abyss of real emotions. I feel what they are singing about, I understand it much more better. It is such an experience that I would like to try again, but I really never get around to it, and when I try, it takes alot of concentration to do it. You need to clear your mind and let the music take you.
Although I'm not sure if meditation brings you to God, I do believe that there have been several medical reports that meditation can help calm the mind and regulate erratic body impulses and biological reactions. In other words, it's pretty good for your mind and body. Although I can't do it (my mind works way too fast for it to concentrate on meditation), my mother does it often.
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There are researches going on for benefits of meditation such as improved immune, mindfulness etc...
Any of you has experiecne with meditation?
For me, I have tried meditation for 10 days and it does make me more tolerable to life stresses. May be my concentration also improves as well.
How about your experience? |
Meditation is a beautiful word but it's hard to define. It seems to mean different things to every person I talk to. For me it's a state of unblocking the brain. Everything flows smooth. Hightened awareness. And then a state where the language stops. There's this silence one cannot describe. Words do it no justice. Words could never describe what meditation is.
MFor me Meditation is both an intellectual exercise in relaxation and emptying my mind as well as a spiritual quest to become closer with my divine nature. (not christian).
I have experienced contact with what I believe to be the divine (purposely using a generic term) as well as have cleared my mind to plunge into the depths of myself.
Meditation is great for reaching your inner mind and exploring your infinity as well as the infinity that is God if they are not one and the same.
I meditate for quite a long time now mostly after a training session, it helps you to relax and gather thoughts, but i didn't felt any big change after starting meditating. It's just relaxing.
I'm in my own sort of meditation when I go to the gym.
Speaking for myself, meditation alone is too...unproductive. I've tried it and it simple doesn't work with me. So, I took the regular meditation and I added the natural dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and endorphin that come with regular aerobics and weight training. Afterwards, I spend a few minutes in the sauna, and finish it off with a long warm shower. I'm a new person, a god even.
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During a 10-20 minute sauna session, the heart rate increases by 50-75%. This provides the same metabolic result as physical exercise. The increased cardiac load is the equivalent to a brisk walk. There is a nominal effect on blood pressure because the heat also causes blood vessels in skin to expand to accommodate increased blood flow.
Blood vessels become more flexible [1] and there is increased circulation to the extremities. During a sauna, blood flow to the skin increases to as high as 50-70% of cardiac output (compared to the standard 5-10%). This is due to the blood vessels in the skin's surface expanding to accommodate the increased blood flow, a process known as vasodilation. This increased blood flow brings important nutrients to subcutaneous and surface tissue, promoting cellular activity and growth.[citation needed] It is especially beneficial to areas of the skin which normally suffer from poor circulation. Along with nourishing the skin, the high temperatures also cause the skin's 2 million eccrine glands to excrete sweat to cool down the skin and blood capillaries. Research has shown that sweat is much more effective than water at emulsifying fat located in the skin's sebaceous glands, and thus at removing the sebum and bacteria lodged in the fat.[citation needed] The vasodilation caused by the high temperatures also allow essential fluids to be transported to the skin's surface. This enhances the development of collagen, giving the skin a continued elasticity and wrinkle-free complexion.
Steambaths and saunas induce sweating to provide a comprehensive cleansing of the skin and sweat glands. Skin is the largest organ in the body. 30% of body wastes are passed through the skin. [citation needed] Profuse sweating enhances the detoxifying capacity of the skin by opening pores and flushing impurities from the body. [citation needed] Researchers have often found that the towels smokers use to sit on in saunas turn yellow as a result of the skin removing impurities and toxins.[citation needed]
When taking a sauna, skin temperature rises to 40°C (104°F) and internal body temperature rises to about 38°C (100.4°F). Exposure to the high heat creates an artificial fever state, a process known as hyperthermia. Fever is part of the body’s natural healing process. Fever stimulates the immune system, resulting in increased production of disease fighting white blood cells, antibodies and interferon (an anti viral protein with cancer fighting capability).[citation needed]
Steam inhalation is an excellent treatment for many respiratory problems. For example, the moist air in saunas can relieve throat irritation. Steam also loosens secretions and can stimulate discharge of mucous from the lungs and throat, giving relief to sufferers of bronchitis. Finally steam can also aid sinusitis by relieving congestion and inflammation of the upper respiratory mucous membranes.
The heat also kills all kinds of bacteria and insects, e.g. lice. This knowledge was used widely during the Winter War and Continuation War when Finnish troops were forced to sauna (although with the unclean conditions in the field made it unnecessary to force them). While the men were in their sauna, their equipment was in another. This cleansed both very effectively while Russians had problems with many diseases.[2]
However, it should be noted, people with heart problems may be at risk due to blood pressure unpredictably rising or lowering after using a sauna. People with stable coronary artery disease are generally safe in a sauna, but people with uncontrollable heart problems may be advised to stay away from a Sauna by a doctor in order to avoid possible complications. People with autoimmune disorders may also be at risk. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna | UlrikeSE wrote: |
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Have you tried meditation and yoga?I plan on begininng sometime soon 
I tried it last week in my religions class (when we were studying buddhism) and I loved it. One time i concentrated real hard and i kinda drifted out. it was scary...i thought i might have died maybe
As I am from India, I am a bit familiar with meditation. Yes, meditation brings about a change in people's life. I don't know how much it is applicable to everyone. It's effect differs from person to person. It is like any other art. You start it, you should continue it. There is no excuse to suddenly stop meditating.
Personally I find that there is a great confusion behind the term meditation. Meditation means focused contemplation. You can meditate on the Bible, you can meditate on what you mother said last night. That is not the same as practicing one of the many disciplines people call "meditation." I practice Raja Yoga (which is the practice that I assume most of you are calling meditation). Raja (king) Yoga (union). It is the practice of controlling the nature of one's mind. It produces magnificent results in understanding the nature of one's mental make up and process (as well as many other mystical experiences). I can see how this could be confused with the term "meditation" which should lead one to profound understandings of concepts (and also mystical expressions). But it is not the same thing.
Think of the difference between learning the strategies of football, and lifting weights. One meditates on football, one gains insight into the nature of football, one may even improve his game. Or one lifts weights, one gains no insight into weights other than they are heavy and can become lighter seemingly. What one gains is muscle. And that is a good example of the difference between "meditation" and "yoga."
I practice a little bit of "meditation" that is for me a form of self exploration of my deep inside. No matter what is the technic used as the aim is to understand better how I work, how I live. As I believe that God is inside every one, every natural object, every vegetation, water, fire, air, earth... WE ARE GOD but we just ignore that we are. We are here to discover that fact I believe, but it's a hard Job, perhaps that it will take me many life to reach that goal! Once we discover that perhaps there will be no more reason to live...that is only my personnal opinion so please don't shout at me christians, muslims, hindou because I'm perhaps wrong but perhaps you are also wrong in ehat you believe. Nobody know until he die! Neither me, neither you:-)
Yes, I believe about meditation.
It's really give me good mood.
Thanks.
A question for Manus et Therion (or any other CM practicioners out there): would you consider the LBRP a kind of meditation? In my pre-Heathen days I spent a lot of time investigating ceremonial magic. I was doing the LBRP pretty regularly and found it to be a very fullfilling practice. I felt clear and focused afte doing it, much like I figure folks might feel after doing structured (ie. yogic) meditation. Anyone have any thoughts on the relationship between meditation and the LBRP or ceremonial magic in general?
Oh, and just as an aside, I think Joseph Cambell once said something along the lines of, "My meditation is highlighting sentences in a book." I always thought that was kind of cool.
Take care,
Eyvind
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yup , i believe in meditation..it calms the mind, body and soul. 
i DEFINITELY agree with meditation. its great for relaxation and calms body, soul and generally improves the mental state of mind. if you want to forget something bad then for a few hours you can just relax and let all your troubles float away
I meditate often, at least when I get the kids to bed. It helps me wake my inner muse and work out problems that I have been having. If I'm stressed or angry then I can use meditation to let it go. If there isn't a chance to meditate I go crazy! 
We just had a day at school about revision for gcse's and they said we should start relaxation techniques and i think meditation is the perfect thing to get me relaxed and in the right state of mind for revision. I definitely reccomend it to anyone who is under pressure from exams.
Does anyone know of an internet site that teaches you how to meditate? I would like to try it. But not religious meditation, like connecting to God, as I'm an atheist --> I know some use their religion to help them meditate, some do it in other ways...
So, which site is good for starting?
you dont need a website. Anyone can meditate.
Just close your eyes and make yourself feel relaxed. This can be done in several ways such as tensing then releasing your muscles or counting from 10-1 and getting more relaxed after every number.
Once you're sufficiently relaxed then you can just make your mind blank. Think nothing, concentrate on nothing and let all bad thoughts flow out of your mind. Keep this meditation state for as long as you feel.
Hope i helped.
For more info go to www.wikipedia.org or just type meditation into google | divinitywolf wrote: |
you dont need a website. Anyone can meditate.
Just close your eyes and make yourself feel relaxed. This can be done in several ways such as tensing then releasing your muscles or counting from 10-1 and getting more relaxed after every number.
Once you're sufficiently relaxed then you can just make your mind blank. Think nothing, concentrate on nothing and let all bad thoughts flow out of your mind. Keep this meditation state for as long as you feel.
Hope i helped.
For more info go to www.wikipedia.org or just type meditation into google |
hm, so that is called meditation too? i thought you have to be imagining things, like reaching a big tree on the top of a hill, etc... to reach a state of "altered mind"... i'll check wiki and google.Yeah imagination works too. Meditations similar to hypnosis in which you relax and clam your mind, then imagination certain things. there are many different ways of meditating and each way is as good as the next. If you want ways of meditation then use good old google and type ways of meditiation or ways of meditating.
I've learned to meditate at school with a teacher of Arts, when I was a child. Everyone should do it, people are very stressed and aggressive nowadays, maybe meditation could change this.
