Meditation helps you to relax in a stressful lifestyle. Meditation often gives us an opportunity to increase our awareness when our senses become dull. Research suggests that meditation can temporarily relieve stress. Due to its relaxing and soothing benefits, experts recommend meditation for a healthy and active life.
Did you know that there are many types of meditation and each type is meant to target different parts of the body. Spiritual gurus and mental health experts have developed several forms of meditation that show that meditation is suitable for people of every personality and lifestyle and can be practiced by everyone.
People who do meditation get a chance to improve their physical health as well as emotional health through its practice. Here we are telling some types of meditation from which you can choose which one is best for you.
What is Meditation :-
Some people think of meditation as yoga, but let us tell you that there is a big difference between the two. Yoga is an exercise of the body and meditation is an exercise of the mind. The meaning of meditation is to meditate with concentration, the purpose of which is to provide spiritual peace to man. Meditation is a type of action in which a person tries to bring his mind to a particular state of consciousness. It can range from giving peace to our mind to creating inner energy or life force, which brings positivity and happiness in our life. With its help, any person can achieve his goal by focusing his attention on his purpose. The practice of meditation has not come recently, but people have been using it since time immemorial to increase peace and concentration.
Types of meditation
There are many types of people in our society, one who takes care of himself after failing and starts trying to achieve his goal again. Others are those people. Those who stop doing that work in which they are not able to succeed and there are some people who try to harm themselves by giving up. Various types of meditation are also done to deal with all these types of mental states. But the purpose of doing all types of meditation is to get satisfaction, mental peace, concentration and happiness. Although there are many types of meditation, but here we are going to tell you about some of the main types of meditation –
1. Jain meditation
Jain meditation is a part of the Buddhist tradition. It should be practiced under the guidance of a trained professional. Some special steps and postures are involved in its practice. It helps in sharpening your mind and gives you relaxation by removing stress.
2. Mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness is a form of meditation that helps the person practicing it to be aware and present in the present. By practicing this meditation, you can make yourself alert and alert. During its practice, you focus on all the movements, sounds and smells happening around you. It can be practiced anywhere, anytime.
3. Spiritual meditation
Popular in Hinduism and Christianity, spiritual meditation helps you build a deeper connection with your God. To practice this meditation all you have to do is make sure that you sit in silence and focus on your breath. While meditating, your every thought should be focused on your breath.
4. Kundalini yoga meditation
Kundalini yoga is a type of meditation in which you are physically active. It involves deep breathing and chanting of mantras as well as many movements. This usually requires you to take a class or you can learn from an instructor. However, you can learn asanas and mantras even at home.
5. Mantra Meditation
Mantra is a Sanskrit word derived from two words man meaning "brain" or "thinking" and trai meaning "to protect" or "to free from". Therefore mantra means to free your mind or to free your thinking. The practice of mantra meditation takes your mind away from negative thoughts and moves it towards positivity.
6. Sahaja Yoga Meditation
Sahaja Yoga Meditation means 'Saha' means with you and 'J' means born. Yoga means union or union, so the way in which man can have a relationship (yoga) with God is called Sahaja Yoga. This type of meditation is done to create self-awareness. After doing this, the Kundli gets awakened and by this a person feels himself connected with God.
7. Vipassana Meditation
Through this type of meditation, a person moves himself from negativity to positivity. This is the most important method of meditation. This creates a feeling of more satisfaction in your mind about life. By doing this, mental development happens faster. Breath is used in this process. Vipassana Meditation is more beneficial for those people who are confused all the time or who have no one to guide them.
8. Trataka meditation
Tratak meditation, also known as focused meditation, attempts to bring concentration using any one of the five senses. While doing this process, the focus is on the focus point of the lamp, candle or lamp. By doing this, there is a special effect on the visual sense. By meditating in this way, the ability to concentrate increases.
9. Third Eye Meditation
Yes, you are right, we are talking about the meditation done to awaken the third eye. Like Lord Shiva, each of us has the third eye but it is not visible. Man's third eye works when his mind is calm and his mind is stable. This happens only when he is in a meditative state. The third eye of a person is the center of their energy power. The main purpose of doing this meditation is to infuse enough energy in the body while awakening that third eye.