How can I keep myself from feeling sleepy while listening to meditation music?
During morning, I really don’t want to be sleepy while practicing meditation. I’d like to feel more awake through and after that. How can I achieve this. Thanks guys.
Stop listening to meditation music…
Meditation Music
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What are some of the best books on meditation?
I am not religious but would like to slowly start practicing meditation.
To elaborate, I have a really hard time relaxing – really don’t know how to do it. I want to learn how to actually meditate and practice this daily. Right now I can’t even take 15 seconds to clear my mind.
Andrew Weiss, who is ordained in both Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing and the White Plum Lineage of the Japanese Soto Zen Tradition – has an excellent beginner’s book on the practice of Mindfulness Meditation called “Beginning Mindfulness: Learning The Way of Awareness.” *It teaches Mindfulness of Breathing, Walking Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation, Loving-kindness Meditation, Tonglin: The Art of Practicing Compassion, and Mindfulness in Everyday Life. *’This is definately one of ‘the’ best beginner’s books to use when starting to learn and practice mindfulness meditation.
“Present Moment, Wonderful Moment” and “Peace Is Every Step” By: Thich Nhat Hanh are also excellent books on Meditation.
“Mindfulness in Plain English” By: Henepola Gunaratana is offered on the internet freely to read. It’s an excellent nuts and bolts, how to manuel on Mindfulness Meditation:
http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mind… and http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe….
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How to meditate
can listening to relaxing / meditation music while studying help you remember?
i’m studdying for a test, will listening to relaxing meditation music help me stay focused or remember?
thank you for your help
No…. and the analogy im going to use is one i hate to voice, but it works for this explanation. But I do not want you to think that i am comparing the human mentality to unemotional circuitry.
The part of your brain that receives environmental stimuli and interprets it is like the RAM of a computer, to many applications running at the same time can bog down your brain, and any additional stimuli causes a loss in focus and interpretation.
The best way to learn something is to read write and listen to the information. I don’t remember the name of the technique, but since it gives you repetition of the information in three separate mental stimuli, that supposedly access your memory through different synapses or some such shite, it helps you retain the information better that just doing one of them.
Relax – Buddhist Meditation Music – Zen Garden – Kokin Gumi
What is the best ‘guided meditation’ cd out there?
In meditation classes, I’ve had instructors ‘guide’ us by saying things like ‘imagine a warm glow around your feet..slowly moving up your calves..’ etc..are there any cd’s like that?
I have used “Insight Meditation” Which I have found to be helpful, it consists of a cd set and guidebook. The cds walk you through different types of meditation. I reference a link to the set on eBay…and the course was put together by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein.
Good Luck =)
Chakra Meditation
