Is Meditation a Key to Success?

So what are the different kinds of meditations? 

What we can start with is loving kindness meditation, for example is really useful for learning to overcome anger issues and/or strong emotional issues. 

A second type of meditation is a body scan meditation.This technique I’ve seen Echkart Tolle teach. 

Tolle suggests starting by simply putting your hand on your thigh. 

Then you just focus on the presence of the palm of the hand touching the leg. 

Maybe you can be aware of the heat or the vibration between your palm and leg. 

This is a very easy meditation. It’s very non-intrusive. And I find it good for beginners. 🧘‍♀️

And when we talk about mindfulness meditation, it’s really, really excellent for learning to control our emotions. Why? Because its first step to developing emotional intelligence.

If you want to have a significant impact on your environment. Such as becoming an effective leader, a role model even teachers or people that want to influence other people.👍 

Further studies show that mindfulness meditation improves focus. It reduces impulsive behavior and stress. 

It improves relationships with other people, as we were talking in the case of emotional intelligence, it reduces fixation on negative emotions. 

So the benefits are you  become less negative, less impulsive, more focused plus have better relationships.

These are really a lot of benefits you get from one simple meditation practice. 

Plus you don’t need to spend massive amounts of time meditating every day, you just need a regular daily practice. 

I think if you start with 10-15 minutes a day, even starting with five minutes a day, once, twice a day, and then you can increase that time as you feel comfortable would be of great benefit to anyone. 

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Another type of meditation is a breathing meditation where we’re aware of the breath and this is a  common meditation practice.

Transcendental meditation teaches a variation of this breathing meditation called pranayama breathing. 

But basically what it is, you deeply relax, become aware of your breathing and transcend your thoughts.

Other variation meditation types teach you to become aware of your heartbeat, the sensations on your skin. In this aspect it’s similar to my body scan meditation. 

Dr. Weils from Harvard University has a 4-7-8 step breathing exercises program where he teaches people breath techniques.

You breathe through the nose, exhale through the mouth, and you take four deep breaths in this way. See my video for a quick tutorial.

According to his research he’s proven that people sleep better and it results in reduced stress and people relax. 

I find breathing exercises to be useful before going on stage and speaking in front of people for reducing anxiety or people working in theater as well. 

The next meditation I’m going to speak about is Kundalini meditation and transcendental meditation, because I think there’s sometimes people don’t quite understand transcendental meditation. 

What is Kundalini meditation? Kundalini meditation is focusing on the energy of the chakras going up the spine to the crown chakra, on top of the head.

Transcendental meditation focuses on a mantra and breathing what really focuses on a mantra and letting the mantra come and go leading into a transcendent mental state.

There are much more advanced transcendental meditation techniques that involve moving the energies in your chakras.

But for beginners, I wouldn’t suggest starting out with Kundalini meditations.

Zen meditation, which I find interesting. Though I’m not an expert in Zen meditation,. My understanding is a strict form focused meditation. Generally focusing on objects, sensations or something. Zen meditation is a focus based meditation. 

Then you have also Kabbalistic meditation, which also are focused based. Where you’re actually meditating focusing on Aramaic or Hebrew letters to elevate your consciousness and open your perception.

Each meditation type is unique in their own way, they offer they’re own special unique benefits to the meditator.