There are many sayings about meditation, and I have chosen a few:
Wikipedia explains as follows: meditation, the mental movement often used in yoga, is called meditation in Buddhism and Taoism, and can also be called meditation in Buddhism. It can be roughly divided into two ways, one is to concentrate in one place. Such as a chakra, a spell or a candle in front of you. The second is to visualize a specific pattern in your mind and keep it still. Such as complex mandala patterns, orderly color scene changes and gurus patterns. Usually, the first exercise must be completed before the second exercise. Any kind of visualization or concentration has its specific effect and physical and mental transformation, so it must rely on the guidance of experienced teachers.
Other statements:
Senior meditators say:
The concept of meditation comes from yoga, and the practice of Buddhism is called "meditation", which is based on the "emptiness" essence of the Heart Sutra, and it is to hold the heart and ignore the understanding or consciousness.
You don't have to force yourself to think nothing, because thinking nothing is "I insist" in itself. Actually, it's very difficult to do. You just ignore and observe and let your thoughts begin and end.
Dr. Brown Judson Brewer said:
Although meditation does often mean meditation and focused meditation, "clearing your mind" is completely wrong. "Meditation is not to empty our minds or stop our thoughts, which is impossible, but to change the connection between ourselves and our thoughts and ideas."
Miles Neal, a clinical lecturer in psychology at Will Cornell Medical College, said:
Various forms of meditation practice can train or cultivate concentration and willpower.
Psychological counselor Tan Yumin said:
Meditation in Kundalini yoga mainly uses pranayama, mantras, mudra and body movements to help practitioners enter the state. There are many meditation methods of rubbing fire yoga, and these meditation methods have different pertinence. For example, it helps to reduce anxiety and stress, cultivate creativity and imagination, increase sense of security, increase courage, cultivate compassion, maintain emotional balance, promote action, cultivate intuition and judgment, and erase traumatic memories. Practitioners can choose according to their own situation and the desired effect.
Both positive psychology and therapeutic psychology have in-depth research on meditation. Under my heart is the story I heard in the live speech of Dr. Benha Medicine.
Research population: Tibetan professional meditators from China who have been meditating for 20-30 years.
This is the research center of positive psychology in an American university, which has done a special study for professional meditators.
They say that these professional meditators have been meditating for 20-30 years. Sometimes they don't talk, just meditate, and their daily concentration time is as long as 8 hours or 12 hours. These professional meditators are near the Himalayas in China, where Tibet is located.
Physical changes of professional meditators
In the in-depth research stage, the brains of these powerful meditators are different from those of ordinary people, and the size ratio of the left and right prefrontal cortex of their brains is very different. In the study of the front position of the left and right halves, it is found that the proportion of the front position is related to happiness.
The front of the left brain is more Maebetaka than the right brain, and these people have higher happiness-the state of meditator.
A person's right brain is more prone to depression or sadness than his left brain.
People with the same left and right sides are ordinary people-the researchers made a curve of normal analysis, and most people belong to the same state in the middle.
When these people were taken to the laboratory for testing, the researchers initially thought there was something wrong with the machine. Why is the difference so big? Because they have never seen such a big gap between the left brain and the right brain. Researchers have never seen others reach their level, but they didn't expect happiness to improve so much.
Another discovery is also very interesting. When people hear a loud noise, they jump with fear. Although the FBI people have been shooting, their bodies move when they shoot. Even if you don't move during training, your body will still move.
However, these meditators can always sit there in a meditative state and remain calm when there is external movement. Even if they hear a lot of noise, it doesn't affect them. For the 1 time in history, researchers found that some people can do this, and they have extraordinary abilities.
There are many kinds of meditation. Here I only introduce the meditation methods I used in the first stage when I was a beginner.
Focus on a single objective object, such as breathing, chanting, artistic conception, a certain part of the body, etc. With the gradual progress, attention will become concentrated and stable, and it will become difficult to be distracted.
Observe Zhou Zhou's things and a person's mind and body (thoughts, feelings, memories, etc.). ) In an open, non-judgmental and persistent manner. The purpose of doing this is to completely empty the consciousness, so that it will not easily fall into all kinds of old inertial reactions.
I will only introduce myself to you in the process of meditation:
Buddhist meditation is the most peaceful and accessible meditation method. You can sit in a sitting position, such as king kong, single plate or even scattered plate. Of course, the best effect is the double board, also called lotus, which is the most upright and balanced body state and the easiest to settle down. I usually use fragmentation myself.
Straighten your spine, slightly close your chin, and you can also knot any handprint. Awareness of the body, through posture practice, forces meditation to reach samadhi.
Either way, it is required to be soft, thin and slow, and the slower the better.
Usually at the beginning, your consciousness is chaotic and you always want to settle down unconsciously. The more you think, the worse you do. When you "think", you commit greed and violate the essence of "emptiness". When you are a beginner, you can choose some music or sounds that suit you to help you meditate or scripture.
In the process of clearing up meditation, I will guide around chakras. The specific chakra diagram is as follows:
Focus on what you are doing and live in the present with your heart. If you sit there, take a deep breath and concentrate. If you are listening to music, then concentrate on listening to the song. This is concentration.
When you meditate, your attention may slip away. It doesn't matter. Come back. During meditation, the ability to slide numbers to refocus gradually increases.
Some meditators call Liu Liu a monkey that crawls everywhere. All you have to do is catch your attention every time you leave, and then you will be distracted after a while. Then you can concentrate, breathe again or listen to music and meditate. Even if you walk 20 times in five minutes, it doesn't matter if you come back.
Meditation is just a form of seeking. When you fully accept whatever you are experiencing, as long as you enter this state, it will be a big step to improve your overall happiness. Meditation is neither good nor bad.
There was once a story between a meditation master and his students:
A student studied with this master for a long time. A few years later, he went to the teacher and said, I'm depressed because I can't concentrate, and I'm always distracted. The teacher told him not to worry, it will all pass, and you will definitely get through this stage.
Three years later, the student went back to the teacher and said, you are right. Now I can concentrate and be undisturbed. Now I have mastered the skill of meditation.
But at that time, the teacher told him, don't worry, your thoughts will pass, and then you will be distracted, so you feel that this is actually the case, there is no difference between good and bad, and meditation is meditation.
Many people feel that they can't sit on a plate, so they can't complete meditation, but this is not the case. There are many ways to meditate. If you are uncomfortable, you can sit down or spread out ... and so on, but sitting down and meditating is faster. If you are in a good state, exercise meditation is also good, not limited to the form, but mainly the core state.
For yourself, as long as you are willing to accept or comfortable, music and the like, because what suits others may not be suitable for you. Your task is to find a way that suits you.
It doesn't matter the length of time, whether it is a few hours or 1 minute, it depends on your own situation.
The posture doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether it's a double disc, a single disc or standing or sitting. As long as you keep your spine straight, you can sit, lie or stand up straight.
Beginners had better choose a quiet and undisturbed space, which makes it easier to get into the state. Middle and high level, low requirements for the environment.
This will vary from person to person. Even if you do it for the first time, it will work as long as you feel relaxed and comfortable, so you don't have to be too narcissistic. You must find the so-called effect, because it will happen every time, just whether you feel it yourself.
Researchers at Leiden University have been studying how open monitoring meditation and concentration can help improve a person's creativity. They also found that those who practice open monitoring meditation perform better in specific tasks when people are assigned to come up with any new ideas.
Meditation in the field of psychology is one of the methods to treat symptoms such as depression and anxiety.
Meditation has been proved to reduce the anxiety level of people who practice regularly. When we meditate, we begin to relax the connection of some neural pathways. A part of our brain called the medial prefrontal cortex processes information related to our experiences and ourselves. Usually, this part of the brain has strong neural pathways for fear and physical sensation. Therefore, when you are in a bad situation, it will trigger a very strong reaction in your brain, which will make you feel anxious.
Those who practice meditation can better filter out distractions and improve productivity. This ability to ignore background interference helps to remember and use new facts quickly.
Regular meditation can help you deal with things more calmly, which helps you to be more sympathetic and empathetic to others, so it helps you to better establish contact with others.
Meditation before going to bed can relax nervous nerves and make people relax wholeheartedly, and then it can relieve fatigue when entering the sleep state, thus changing the quality of sleep, which has been proved to be helpful to promote better sleep quality.
West Point Military Academy: A special meditation course is offered.
Oxford University: Mindfulness Research Center has been established. Dr. Jon Kabajin's "Mindfulness Decompression Course" has always been sought after by students.
Robert Wright, a visiting professor at Princeton University, published a new book, Buddhism is Reality: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Epiphany, which quickly became a best seller in The New York Times.
Washington Lewis McChord Joint Base: The Latest Military Strategy-Meditation. Soldiers training in meditation at Lewis McChord Joint Base in Washington can improve people's attention in chaotic situations.
Scofield Barracks, Hawaii: In the winter of 20 19, the army infantry in Scofield Barracks, Hawaii began to use meditation to improve their shooting skills-for example, focusing on when to pull the trigger in chaos to avoid unnecessary civilian injuries.
Royal Navy: Meditation training has been conducted for officers, and the military is conducting meditation training for some officers and men of the Army and the Royal Air Force.
The New Zealand Defence Force recently adopted this technology and the Dutch military is also considering it. ...
I think everyone knows the function of meditation, and many people are doing it, but not many of them can persist, so people often question or ask "Is meditation useful" or "Why meditation doesn't work for me". This has a lot to do with our understanding of meditation and correct training.
If you have been obsessed with what it brings you, and can't do the above-mentioned methods of concentration, distraction, judgment and unsuitability, then it will naturally not have the results you expect.
On the contrary, if you can follow your heart, let go of everything, hold your heart based on the essence of emptiness, and have no ego and ideas, then you will naturally have results.
If you like doing this, you can give yourself some time to try, experience and feel, and you won't be disappointed.
By the way, if you are comfortable and try to integrate your dream into your meditation, your dream will come true in minutes.
We lead the meditation every Monday night at 2 1:30, and our favorite friends can join us.