Meditation: Universally accepted as something Great: Doctors, Jesus, Ghandi, Buddha, AMA

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Meditation

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 118 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 58 helpful votes

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How to meditate? Do I just sit down? I like the hand gesture of right palm under left palm and then the two thumbs connecting (the gesture of balance). ALso can you meditate while doing stuff? I find this is very hard to maintain the focus or concentrate. I saw this video "HOW TO STOP THINKING" on youtube and it helped a lot, it's a 50 minute tape and basically says you cannot learn how to stop thinking you do it by doing it. SO i guess meditation will help me with focus and concentration.

What IS meditation? Help me please

Liike when I go out in public and there a lot of people around me, cars, etc. and I stop thinking everything around me becomes inside of me and then I lose control(focus or concentrate) and the mind starts thinking and then uncomfortable/awkward things happen.
Can anyone help me

Basically I learn the universal truth, that is about perception and consciousness; the absolute. Now knowing it is all me I just feel like a bad person and I want to be good and everybody to be well and be happy and stuff and have un but it's like i am stuck in this situation and it's all up to me and it just seems really hard caus i am only 17- it makes me feel like i need to go and be alone for like a week or a weekend just meditate.

I hate when people think meditation gives you magic powers (I'm not talking about the skeptics only but also the doers). I don't believe in "chi". I do believe that meditation strengthens the mind to do some amazing things. Even if meditation is a bunch of bullshit, it still relieves stress and strengthens cognitive thinking. The mind is a powerful thing.

it still relieves stress and strengthens cognitive thinking.

Any good Christian knows that meditation is of the devil.

no not any good christian, but they should. those darn preachers to busy getting rich to teach anything...

There is no possible way to gain material goods or an ego boost from meditation.

That's why most people will NEVER do it.

Hmmmm, I'll pass. Turning my brain into some sort of interdimensional jelly so that evil entities can enter my thoughts is out of the question altogether.

It's very simple. As I said in an earlier thread, you will think that you're not accomplishing anything while you're meditating, but you are. Just give it time.

Not too long ago, I watched Deepak Chopra on TV.

He talked about the importance of meditation. He said if you meditate for 21 days straight, it will change your life. Certainly, meditating after 21 days is important, but he says you will see a difference in your life after 21 days.

Much of what he said about meditating is what I learned years ago at a transcendental meditation class...and I KNOW it works! We were also advised to turn off a phone that might ring. I found out that's important. You don't realize it at the time, but you are so relaxed while meditating, that a sudden noise, such as a ringing phone, will startle you.

Deepak meditates for 2 hours every morning...from 4-6am (ARGH), but....this is his advice:

* 15-20 minutes is good for us in morning and ideally again, around 4 or 5 pm (before dinner) At least do it in morning! It will energize you. Will lower B/P, stress, etc.
* Don't eat or drink coffee...meditate on empty stomach
* Sitting position. Palms up, touch thumb to tip of index (pointer) finger
* Legs crossed or not crossed...just be comfortable
* Let thoughts flow...don't try to silence them. (I was told to think of a peaceful scene)
* Don't say mantra outloud...do it mentally
* Best mantra is "soooo humm" soooo when inhaling.....humm when exhaling (This is Deepak's advice. I never did the inhale-exhale thing)
* Your breath will get slower and deeper, but don't concentrate on it

He said you can meditate anywhere....even on an airplane, but never while driving.
Never meditate before bedtime....meditation will energize you.

So the hummm sooo was in sync with my breathing running on auto pilot, and as this was going on I was thinking as 'another part of me'. The intelligent One, as i call/understood it. There is only One. we are the imagination of ourselves, one consciousness experiencing It Self. A Singularity. I'm eager to maintain this focus. so I'm definitely gonna meditate.

thank you i wish you all well and will see ya.

Why do we love to hike in nature......go fishing....sit on a porch swing at night, listening to the crickets chirp....

Why does the sound of leaves rustling in the wind soothe us, the soft roar of the ocean....the songs of birds in the morning fill us with such cheer?

It is because the human being was created for meditation. We meditate by accident. There is a built-in fail-safe that forces us to meditate when we are doing mundane things.....if not, we would go insane.

To meditate is to seperate ourselves from the voice of our thoughts,(the serpent in the garden).

This is why nature is designed to woo the thoughts out of us...to strike us dumb with wonder and compel silence. Meditation is mankind's natural response to nature.

There is meditation then there in mind alteration.
Meditation is contemplation upon something - that beautiful ocean, the handiwork of God which shows Him as Creator, the birth of your child etc.

Mind alterating meditation is BLANKING the mind of all thought bar a repetively word or mantra. It is the MOST UNNATURAL STATE KNOWN TO MAN.

Disclaimer: If you come to this thread to spew hate/fear I will just delete it. If you have something viable to debate against meditation please post something to back it up.


There is one thing that is universally accepted as something good and wonderful too do.

Something that will help you health.

Something that will help your wealth.

Something that will bring you peace.

Something that will unlock the secrets of "yourself"


Everyone from the AMA, Catholics, Buddhists, Christians, Ghandi, Jesus. Meditation is universally accepted as something we should all do.

So, why isnt everyone doing it?

no not any good christian, but they should. those darn preachers to busy getting rich to teach anything...

I suppose, then, I'm not a "good" Christian.

(Fortunately, I know that God doesn't keep score like we do.)

It's called a "practice" for a reason. Most people want instant gratification, and the idea of a continuing commitment isn't appealing.

I have come to know that there is no true method to get to know oneself since you are it. And claiming you need a method would give the illusion strength, whats your look on this?