You may consider meditation as a worship or prayer. But actually meditation means awareness. Whatever you do with awareness is called meditation. As an example, listening to the singing of birds is meditation, watching your breath with your eye lids closed is meditation. Any activity that is free from any other distraction to the mind is called meditation.
What you need to know
The word meditation is derived from two Latin words: - one is Meditari which means To think or To exercise the mind and the other is Mederi which means To heal. Now a days some peoples may consider meditation as spiritual practice where a man sits down with his eyes closed and empties his mind to get inner peace, relaxation, or even an experience of gods power. Another peoples may describe the meditation as doing any kinds of job with the full concentration of mind. But meditation is not that. Meditation means you must go through several stages of your mind so that your physical position, breath control and relaxation come the more advanced stages of concentration, contemplation and then ultimately absorption.
Types of Meditation
There are basically two types of meditation is practiced now a days. One is Concentrative meditation and the other is Mindfulness meditation.
Concentrative meditation
Concentrative meditation focuses the attention on the breath, an image or a sound in order to still the mind and allow a greater awareness and clarity to emerge. This is like a zoom lens in a camera. We narrow our focus to a selected field.
Mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness meditation focuses the attention of sensations, feelings, images, thoughts, sounds, smells etc. without thinking about them.
Why you learn to Meditate
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness, but if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even we are living in the very best condition. If we train us in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer and purer form of happiness. Eventually we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.
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