Meditation

What is meditating?

Meditating is connecting the mind with your interior , providing a necessary space for your life, to make better decisions for ourselves, our families and our communities. The most important tools for knowing how to practice meditation are patience, kindness to yourself, and a comfortable and pleasant place to sit and achieve concentration.

Meditation in other cultures

Meditation helps us to remember those traditional methods to achieve a high level of inner peace, personal development through personal exploration, and the search for undiluted meaning despite the variation in other cultures around the world. traditions.

E n meditation Christian faith throughout the centuries developed to bring the individual to the divine through intense prayer and contemplation. Unlike Eastern meditation , Christian practitioners rely not on mantras, but on the peaceful stimulation of deep thoughts that lead to personal insight.

In the Baha'i faith meditation is held as a gateway to unite with the divine forces present in the universe. While reading texts is recommended as an entry point, there are no established forms of meditation, therefore practitioners are encouraged to select their own methods.

The Buddhist faith focuses on meditation , specifically from practices detailed and preserved in texts thousands of years old. Buddhist meditation is practiced with a reverence for the student-teacher relationship, and is done with the goal of developing practical insight and wisdom, eventually moving closer to Enlightenment and freedom from worldly suffering.

In Taoism (also Taoism) meditation is perpetuated as a key method of establishing contemplation, understanding and cultivation of qi (natural force) in the life of the individual. Taoist meditation fuses body-mind action with specific practices to control the limbs, lungs, etc.

The Hindu faith has embraced meditation since its inception, through classic poems such as the Bhagavad Gita that detail the far-reaching influence of the practice on Hindu spirituality. In Hinduism, the goal of meditation is to realize the union of the being with the omnipresent Brahman, or infinite force. Hindu meditation often involves the use of japa mala, or prayer beads.

In the Islamist / Sufism faith meditation is explored as a practical path to awareness, creativity and healing. Practitioners focus on cultivating tadabbur, that is, literally reflecting on the universe to receive divine inspiration that awakens both the heart and the intellect.

In Jainism , meditation is encouraged as a form of self-realization and self-salvation, a practice capable of helping the individual to "reach and remain in the pure state of the soul that is believed to be pure consciousness, beyond any attachment or aversion".

Meditating on Judaism has its oldest roots, used throughout the centuries to get closer to the divine while growing in understanding of being. Kabbalah and other mystical branches of Judaism involve meditation as a way of encouraging people with a positive limit, that is, the state of being alone.

Secular traditions, including counseling centers and school settings, have embraced nonreligious meditation as an effective course toward cognitive and social health for individuals and groups alike. Strategies can include breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, and general relaxation techniques.

Meditation varies according to the cultural and spiritual traditions of the peoples where it is practiced, adding part of their idiosyncrasies and customs. However, the objective is the same, the search in himself of being human and his desire to connect with his interior, to heal from within, to reconnect, with the true being and his place in the universal system.