The power of Concentration

Meditation is an invaluable and proven science to optimize health and raises the quality of his life. This not only promotes physical health, but also significantly improves emotional balance and psychological wellbeing. There are many types of thinking and in this article we will examine the powerful and popular Concentration Meditation Technique.

Focusing Meditation technique:

These are probably the most common and well know all the meditations and meditation is often determined by these types of meditations only. They are closely related to Insight Meditation technique, with the difference that the Insight Meditation techniques use active application discovery and justification, Concentration and Meditation techniques use the power of focused attention on a larger scale. In a certain extent these meditations Meditations Insight lay the groundwork for the need for a high degree of concentration, as a prerequisite for being effective.

1. Breath Meditation Technique (Zazen):

Heart of Zen is Zazen Meditation, meditation of the Buddha. In this meditation, bring awareness and focus are in the process of breathing to help build mastery over the mind and no system of dualistic thinking.

To practice Zazen takes a sitting position and then begins to count half the flow of voice. Counting each inhalation and exhalation, starting from one to ten. Thus, an inhalation is one other smoke is two, and so on. When you reach a count of ten, the return to a counting and starts again. This helps to focus the mind and prevents him from endless shuttling from one thought to another.

As one develops the ability to count from one to ten undistracted, and begins to count each breath cycle, instead of inhalation and exhalation separately. Until now a prosecution for an inhalation and exhalation as one full breath as the other two and so on until reaches ten. After reaching ten, the return to a repetition and meditation.

In the advanced form of Zazen, simply become a breath. In this enumeration form is completely dropped and only the diligent awareness of the spirit is preserved. There should progress at this level until one has mastered the previous two.

Zazen Meditation helps develop breath power of focused concentration and creates a calm, peaceful mind capable of penetrating the veil of dualistic thinking.

2. Other breathing Vipassana meditation is based on:

In an extended Vipassana by a lower consciousness, body and feelings that rise and fall inside. The objective is to have insight into the workings of the mind through self-observation. This form of meditation is also known as Insight Meditation helps develop an insight into the true nature of things.

3. Object Concentration Meditation Technique:

There are many meditations that utilize an external object as a point of focus for the mind. Zazen and Vipassana belong in this part also, but due to their widespread use those mentioned separately.
Objects of focus can be anything from a point on the ceiling, in a flower, to external sounds in the environment. These meditations all developing focus, concentration, self knowledge, peace and awareness witnesses. Their ultimate goal, however, is to have a decrease in the meditator finally meet the object of concentration and not the dual nature of Reality directly.

Some examples of these meditations are Sound Awareness Meditation Technique and flames qiriu gazing (Trataka). Both modalities use rationale makes sense to meet the purposes of concentration meditation.

Summary:

So you see from above that there are many types of concentration meditation techniques. This allows one to choose a type that is most appropriate for their personality and nature. The best way to discover great benefits of meditation is to jump in and participate. What are you waiting for?