Meditation Types- Choose Best For You

Types of Meditation

Here is the list of few popular meditation types. There are many more techniques of meditation that you can practice. Choose any one as per your convenience, but remember one thing – whichever path you choose all roads ends at same terminus that is ecstasy…..union with God….supreme state of happiness.

34 Different Techniques and Styles

Buddhist Meditation: An explanation of the Buddhist path leading to the supreme goal of enlightenment for the welfare of all living beings. A deeper insight into the complex scope of Buddhist thought and practice. Know more about the basic meditation practices common to all sects of Tibetan Buddhism….
Candle Gazing Meditation (Tratak): This is one of the ancient technique of concentration. Many people find it easy to concentrate with gazing at candle. Learn how to do candle gazing meditation….
Chakra Meditation: Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning “wheel” or “revolving disc”. There are seven main energy centers serve as transformers to receive and distribute the vital energy required for the body’s systems to function. These are located along the midline of the astral body, known as the astral spine. How to balance the development of these chakras in order to boost energy levels and overall health?….
Color Healing Meditation: Color healing meditation provides cleansing, balancing, and healing at physical as well as mental level. This involves visualization of different color radiant balls, one at a time. This gives your mind particular strength associated with that color. Read more about – Rainbow Color Meditation….
Dhyana: Dhyana and Dharana are two stages of the same process. They are like the flower and the fruit. According to Patanjali, dhyana is “the uninterrupted flow of the mind towards the object of dharana”. Dhyana is simply success at dharana. What most of us practice today is not dhyana but rather dharana (concentration). Dhyana and Dharana explained in detail….
Empty Bowl Meditation: In empty bowl meditation your mind is symbolically working as a bowl. Make your mind empty from desire, anger, ambition, failure and other thoughts and accept the love poured by the God in the bowl undoubtedly.
Energy Healing Meditation: Energy healing meditation helps you to concentrate your positive energy on an afflicted area and alleviate any adverse symptoms and feelings that are being manifested through the physical pain. Practice energy healing meditation particularly to remove negative thoughts….
Focused Meditation: It is also popular as concentration meditation. This involves focusing mind on a particular thought. This process eliminate unnecessary distractions and helps you to get a clearer and a better-functioning mind.
Hong Sau Meditation: This meditation involves watching naturally occurring spaces between the breaths, in which the mind becomes very still. By uniting mind with the breath in this way, the mind will start to stay focused in the present moment.
Insight Meditation: Along with holding the mind still, it also involves clear observation. A simple observation, without any thinking, without any questions, allows the mind to realize the true nature of things as they really are. Insight meditation helps to achieve clear seeing and wisdom….
Lotus Flower Meditation: This method involves visualization of lotus flower blooming in the center of heart. As the lotus is the symbol of perfection and purity, it helps to connect with cosmic consciousness and divine light.
Loving Kindness Meditation: Loving-kindness is a meditation practice that specifically retrains the mind to overcome all forms of negativity. It brings about positive attitudinal changes by systematically developing the quality of loving-acceptance.
Mantra Meditation: This meditation uses a mantra as your object of focus. A mantra is a word or phrase. Although mantra is sometimes chanted aloud, in this meditation, you will be repeating the mantra mentally, gently and silently.
Mindfulness Meditation: Mindfulness is a state of mind which is “thoroughness,” “alertness” or “awareness.” Mindfulness cannot occur when there is greed, anger, or delusion. Mindfulness is that moment when there is no greed, anger, or delusion. Discover how to truly live in the moment through mindfulness meditation…..
Movement (Moving) Meditation: Movement meditation encourages you to focus and meditate on your own movements rather than thoughts and other things. There are so many ways on how to do movement meditation. Some of them are walking, dancing, palming, or it could be Tai Chi.
Namaha Meditation: Namaha is the Sanskrit word which means “Not Me”, or “Not About Me”. When you are confused, don’t know which direction to go or don’t know what plan to follow, then simply follow the trust that all is as it should be.
Ocean Meditation: Visualizing ocean and letting your all problems washing away with the waves in main idea behind the ocean meditation. Our thoughts are just like water waves. They keep coming and going. Eventually along with water waves let your worries gets drain at imaginary horizon….
Om Meditation: Repeating the sound of Om is the main concept in Om meditation. You need to break the om sound in 3 parts – ah….oh…mmm….and then deep silence. This is very effective to release the tension.
Palming Meditation: Covering closed eyes with palm cups is the main technique. This is a kind of movement mediation which is very effective for mind as well as body relaxation.
Qigong Meditation: It can be pronounced as chee-gong meditation and roughly translates to “the animating life force”. It is ancient Chinese moving meditation. In qigong, slow and rhythmic movements flow with the breath. Qi help to maintain balance, strength, flexibility, and agility into old age. “Parting The Clouds” is very popular Qigong exercise for mental relaxation. Master the stress reduction and find the inner peace….
Relaxation Meditation: Allowing the eyes to rest in a soft downward gaze has an instant, automatic relaxing effect. Relaxation meditation provides a great deal of stress reduction and can be used as a quick 2 minute relax and refresh break almost anywhere.
Samadhi: Also known as ecstasy which is union with God. Samadhi is state of very extreme happiness. Patanjali explains that “when there is consciousness of the object of dhyana and not of the mind itself, is Samadhi”. Thus Concentration, Dhyana and Samadhi are simply three stages of the same process. Explore more to stay calm and equanimous like an unshakable rock…..
Samatha Meditation (Serenity Meditation): The word samatha by itself means tranquility. Samatha meditation is indeed useful to develop concentration. It develops one-pointedness of mind, as we hold the mind to it’s object for long periods to give it strength, to serve its purpose. One-pointed clear awareness is called Samatha…..
Shikantaza Meditation: This is the simplest form of meditation. Shikantaza is a Japanese term which literally means just sitting. Yes it is that simple. But though it sounds simple, it is not that simple to just sit, calm our mind and follow the breath. This technique is useful to find some stability.
Smiling Meditation: Researchers in psychoneuroimmunology have discovered that when we smile our bodies produce and release large quantities of endorphins. These are natural painkillers, and they enhance our bodies’ ability to fight disease. When we smile we relax hundreds of muscles in our body. Smile sends positive message to our body, we feel more calmer, happier and peaceful. Smile, and assume that our spiritual journey should be filled with joy and celebration….
So-Hum Meditation: As the name suggest, in this meditation involves the two sounds – “So” and “Hum”. You really don’t have to chant it loudly but sit quietly and observe the breathing movement and experience the vibration of cosmic sound. Unlock the secrets behind your energy fields….
Tai Chi: It is the most popular forms of movement meditation. It is the slow movement exercise. Feel how a set of slow movements affect your body.
Tranquillity Meditation: Tranquillity meditation is generally the concentration of the tranquil and peaceful mind. Make your mind completely still by holding the mind to an object. Tranquility of mind is very essential to look within without which you can not enjoy peace or serenity. Live life in peace and calm….
Transcendental Meditation (TM): This kind of meditation allows person to meditate on a series of syllables or words known collectively as the mantra. This type of meditation also known as mantra meditation. But this meditation does not involve mantra chanting. TM produces a deep state of rest and a unique brain functioning….
Tummo Meditation: In Tibet, it is also called heat meditation. In this type of meditation, yogis use the power of their mind to control their body heat. Surprisingly meditating in sub zero conditions for months, wearing only a cotton shawl.
Vipassana (Vipashyana) Meditation: Vipassana is a Pali word that means wisdom or insight. This is why it is also known as Wisdom meditation or Insight meditation. Vipassana is a system of meditation taught by Buddha to free your mind from unwholesome sates and to overcome suffering. Experience highest kind of happiness with Vipassana….
Walking Meditation: You need to observe each step so closely and carefully that your mind must get attached to the gradual forward movement of foot. After continuous observation for many days, you will notice that whenever you desires to lift the foot, foot starts to lift. The desire arises first to cause the physical behavior to happen.
Yoga Meditation: Yoga is a system of techniques, which help us to closer to meditation more efficiently. The first step in preparing for any type of meditation is to establish the proper conditions in the body. And this is the time where Yoga helps you….
Zazen (Zen) Meditation: Zen meditation is nothing but being totally at this moment at this particular time. Zen system of meditation and teaching uses the koan. Koan means unsolvable problems. We give the mind a problem which has no rational answer. The solution to the koan is not any specifically answer at all. It’s the ability to totally respond in the moment. That’s what whole practice is – being totally in the moment….