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- Guided Visualization
- Focusing on the Breath
- Vipassana Meditation
- Heart-Centered Meditation
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Eckhart Tolle
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Jack Kornfield
- Moving Meditation
- Camille Maurine ~ Meditation Secrets for Women
- Emilie Conrad D’aoud ~ Continuum Movement
- Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen ~ Body-Mind Centering
- Applied Hinduism
- Ram Dass
- Osho
- Buddhist Meditation
- The Dalai Lama
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Pema Chodron
- Zazen (coming soon)
- Shamata (coming soon)
- Transcendental Meditation (coming soon)
- Mantra Meditation (coming soon)
- Integral Spirituality ~ Ken Wilbur
- Binaural Beats Meditation
- Music for Meditation
- Mass Meditations for Healing the Planet
- Time Zone Converter
Guided Visualization
If you are completely new to meditation, this is a good place to start. The general format is that you sit or lie down in a comfortable and quiet place, close your eyes, listen to a guide give verbal instruction (live or recorded), and use your mind’s eye to imagine whatever the verbal guidance is describing to you. This works several parts of your brain, which generally takes up enough mental bandwidth that you have less mental energy to spend on other random thoughts and worries. It is a good beginning training to strengthen and develop your powers of visualization and your ability to notice what is happening in your internal experience (thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations).
A Walk On the Beach ~ Lori Granger
Let Go ~ Lori Granger
Be Present ~ Lori Granger
Anxiety Relief ~ Rick Clarke and Sian Lloyd-Pennell
Focusing on the Breath
Almost all forms of meditation include some guidance on how to relate to your breath within the context of that style of meditation. One basic beginning meditation is to count breaths up to nine, and then start over at one. Another basic meditation is just to observe the breath without trying to do anything to change it. More soon in this section.
Yogi Ramacharaka ~ The Science of Breath
Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana Support Institute ~ Shinzen Young
Heart Centered Meditation
I personally feel that heart-centered meditation is the fast track to raising consciousness, but it requires some skill with Vipassana-style focus on body sensations and some skill with basic mindfulness practices in order to be aware of sensations, thoughts, and emotions that arise as you rest into your heart center. Most cultures around the world have some sort of practice of heart-centered meditation. Here are some modern trainings and teachers:
Awakening the Illuminated Heart ~ Drunvalo Melchizedek
Integrative Awakening ~ Neil Cohen
Mindfulness Meditation
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle prefers not to use the word “mindfulness” for the meditation he teaches because it is all about relaxing the thinking mind and resting into awareness of the present moment of Now. Still, he belongs in this category.
Eckhart Tolle Official Site ~ Books ~ YouTube Channel
How Do We Break the Habit of Excessive Thinking?
I Have Been Trying and Trying and Nothing. Why?
The Flowering of Human Consciousness Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8
The Deepest Truth of Human Existence Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8
The Power of Now Full Audiobook
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is Heartfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn Defines Mindfulness
An Evening With Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Healing Power of Mindfulness (4 min long intro)
Jack Kornfield
A Path With Heart ~ More Books by Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein ~ Insight Meditation Center, Barre, Mass.
Moving Meditation
Moving meditation is a way of getting out of the mind and into the body. Of course the mind has to operate the body, but the mind is so focused on both moving the body and on noticing the sensations that arise while moving the body that there is much less mental bandwidth available for extraneous thoughts or worries. The form of moving meditation most people are familiar with is Yoga, and there are many schools of Yoga, and I won’t try to list them all here.
Qigong is the foundation for T’ai Chi, and T’ai Chi is the foundation of all martial arts, and all of those practices are various styles of moving meditation, and links to a few good teachers are provided on my page on Energy Mastery.
Listed below are some more modern forms of moving meditation.
Camille Maurine ~ Meditation Secrets for Women
Meditation Secrets for Women ~ Movement #1
Meditation Secrets for Women ~ Movement #2
Camille Maureen ~ Honor Your Instincts
Emilie Conrad D’aoud ~ Continuum Movement
Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen ~ Body-Mind Centering
Applied Hinduism
Ram Dass ~ Ram Dass Tape Library ~ Be Here Now ~
Osho ~ Many approaches to meditation
Buddhist Meditation
Buddhist Masters and Their Organizations
The Dalai Lama
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening the Heart Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Simple Mindfulness (2005 Retreat)
Pema Chodron
Pema Chodron ~ Tibetan Buddhism ~ Biography
Non-Meditation and Natural Wakefulness
Awakening Compassion (part 1 of 11 parts ~ Introduction to the practice of Tonglen)
Fear and Fearlessness (and Pema Chodron video playlist)
Zazen
Shamata
Transcendental Meditation
Mantra Meditation
Integral Spirituality ~ Ken Wilbur
Ken Wilbur ~ The Integral Operating System ~ A Map of Your Own Awareness
Ken Wilbur ~ The Three Types of Meditation
Ken Wilbur ~ Ego Development
Ken Wilbur ~ How Meditation Accelerates Vertical Development
Ken Wilbur ~ A Brief History of Integral ~ We are in an unprecedented stage change.
Ken Wilbur ~ On Living at the Leading Edge of Evolution
Ken Wilbur ~ Speaking of Everything
Binaural Beats Meditation
This must be listened to with headphones to get the full effect. There are different beats going into your left and right hemispheres, and if you are using speakers, the beats meant for the separate hemispheres of your brain are being heard by both sides, negating the effect. The music is still nice to meditate to, but will not take you to the desired state nearly as easily.
One Hour OM Mantra Music with Binaural Beats ~ Theta Brainwave Frequency
Music for Meditation
G. W. Hardin ~ Grace Space ~ Lost Tones of the Angelic Realm
Fractal patterns of sound interact with your DNA and establish resonance.
Solfeggio Frequencies
Jonathan Goldman and Gregg Braden ~ The Awakening
Zen: Music for Balance and Relaxation
Mass Meditations for Healing the Planet
It has been scientifically proven that a large number of people meditating at the same time has a measurable effect in the world. One repeated study found that Chicago crime rates dropped while mass meditations were in progress in that area. I will dig up more studies when I have time, and if you know of any, please send me a link.
Sunday, 7 pm GMT, Noon PDT ~ Weekly World Liberation Meditation
Time Zone Converter
Here is a Time Zone Converter for determining when to join a world-wide mass meditation.
