Meditations for Healing

Meditation for Health

In part 1 of this series on Meditations for Healing I compiled a big list of the health benefits of meditation as proven by recent scientific research.  This list, although not comprehensive, should be ample fuel to motivate and inspire you to start using meditation as a serious tool for optimizing your health and supplementing any treatment plan.  In this final part of the series, I am going to point out some of the wonderful meditations that are freely available on the website already, which are highly reputed for their curing and healing powers. 

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Learn to Meditate

Meditation Instructions with Illustrations

Learning how to meditate is the most important part of being a human being.  In fact, to uncover and embrace all that you are, meditation is key.  Meditation reveals to you the Truth of your infinite, divine nature, and there are absolutely no material equivalents to these discoveries.  Along the way to Self-Realization, many other priceless benefits are also bestowed by meditation practice, and I have detailed those in the following article to help motivate you even further:  Top 10 Benefits of Meditation.  So given how important meditation is, in this article, I would like to teach you step by step how to learn and practice this great art.

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Testing Your Awareness

Developing the Spiritual Mind

Undoubtedly, you have repeatedly heard that for enlightenment, one of the keys is keeping your awareness in the here and now, keeping it in the present.  This can be stated in many ways, such as observe your mind, body and feelings, or maintain your witnessing consciousness, or remain mindful, or practice choiceless awareness, or develop your spiritual mind, etc, etc.  For those who don’t just care to read, but are interested in discovering for themselves the Truth, know that maintaining such awareness from moment to moment is easier said than done.  Thankfully though, there are lots of nice tips and techniques for helping us live with such awareness and in today’s article I would like to share with you one such a technique.

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Mindfulness Meditation

Test for Mindfulness Meditation

The highest form of mindfulness meditation is the awareness of each thought that arises and falls in the mind.  This technique has been the method of many enlightened masters in the past and continues to be the technique of choice for those who are inclined towards Insight Meditation, Mind Meditation, Zen Meditation or Gyan Yoga.  As revealed in the epic article, Meditation Techniques, Types & Practice - A Comprehensive Guide, there are literally hundreds of meditation techniques and certainly Mindfulness Meditation is amongst one of the very best.  The question that does come up though, is how do you know if this type of meditation is right for you?

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Best Mind Meditation Technique

Most Advanced Yoga Meditation

Mastery of Meditation & Yoga now has almost 400 articles, detailing a wide range of simple and advanced yoga & meditation techniques, along with other insightful articles for helping you achieve your highest potential in life.   The techniques work on everything from your mind, body to spirit.  While some of these techniques are suitable for beginner’s others, are quite advanced and should be approached with respect and intelligence.  Of course, appropriate details are included in the respective articles, so you can design a personal program suitable to your level and capacity.

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Spiritual Short Story

The Library of God - A Zen Story

It’s been some time since I wrote my last Spiritual Story, The Secrets of the Universe - A Zen Story, and my creative side is itching again to be expressed, so here is another zen tale to entertain and enlighten.  To find my other spiritual short stories here on Mastery of Meditation & Yoga, just visit the Spiritual Stories category.

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Helpful Meditation Tips

Zen Meditation Technique Help

(PS: Inadvertently only a summary of this article went out to those of you who subscribe to my posts via email.  Rest assured that was unintentional and future articles will be emailed to you in full as before.  Thanks for being a subscriber :-).

One of the most common questions beginner’s have when they start any kind of silent meditation is what to do with their thoughts.  Often this can lead to frustration or confusion as beginners may feel that they are not doing their meditation correctly or are not succeeding with their technique.  This is primarily because they feel they are not achieving the "enlightened" state of a silent, empty mind.  To help you understand how to deal with thoughts during meditation, I found the following excerpt on Zen Meditation (Zazen) by Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki very helpful.

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Zen Buddhism Teachings of God Giving

Shunryu Suzuki Teachings of Non-attachment

I wanted to share with you some very profound wisdom from Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki about God, giving, non-attachment and living in the now.

Book:            Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Author:        Shunryu Suzuki

Chapter 65: God Giving

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Effort in Zen Meditation Practice

Zen Teachings of Effortless Effort

Zen Meditation is without a doubt one of the greatest tools for enlightenment and Self-realization.  This meditation technique is simple in it’s design, watch your breath being it’s core requirement, but fully appreciating Zen Meditation and Zen teachings requires a vast and open mind.

One aspect of Zen meditation or Zen teachings that often lead to confusion is the idea of effortless effort, or the role of effort in one’s spiritual practice and meditation practice.  In the Zen bible , Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, master Shunryu Suzuki explains how one should approach effort within the context of Zen Meditation.  Here is that excerpt…

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Spiritual Short Story

Zen Story

Is reincarnation true?  How about an afterlife?  Karmic Laws?  Now, that absolutely must exist.  Heated debates and discussions swirl around these and other such fascinating questions, but what are the answers?  Well let’s head over to Nowind Monastery and see if Master Blumise can help shed some light on these intriguing questions.

Zen Story - The Secrets of the Universe

Part 1:  Totonaka the Fanatic

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