to get max benefits of meditation which technique should i follow?
normal meditations like breathing,mindfulness or binaural beats products like brain sync,hemisync?are these products more reliable and gives you max benefits than normal meditation in less time without any side effects as they claim on their site?please help me!!!

I’ve only tried HemiSync (which has substantially more research behind it than brainsync). Used daily, it absolutely is a gigantic shortcut, it turned my life inside out with transcendental weirdness very, very quickly. I started getting Kundalini risings after a few months of use for example. The HemiSync Gateway CD series isn’t that different from normal meditation in fact, you just do it wearing headphones.

I want to be able to time travel.

http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/meditation/meditation-techniques.asp
http://www.meditationsociety.com/108meds.html
http://www.freemeditations.com/
These links should be of assistance to you.

Blessings )O(

"The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hahn

I’ve been using just the regular breathing and clearing your mind, plus Zen and Mahasati. Do you have any others? I’d like to try something new.

read the sites below:

http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/meditation/meditationtechniques.html

http://stress.about.com/od/lowstresslifestyle/a/meditation.htm

I’m not due until July 23rd but I’m one of those people who likes to prepare and go over everything way ahead of time ) I’m reading and looking into meditation and breathing techniques for labor and I just wanted everyone’s input on different methods/programs, what worked what didn’t work. I’m trying to deliver with as little medication as possible ) Thanks all!

The number one biggest thing that helped me was I told the hospital when I walked in the door that I intended to have a natural delivery. So they sent me a nurse who was especially skilled in natural. Not all nurses deal with natural. Some do only epidural deliveries – it’s true, I work at a hospital, and my sister works in L&D. There are some who don’t know how to do it. So get a good nurse to help you.

Other than that, it’s not so much about certain breathing techniques as it is about staying as calm as possible. Take deep cleansing breaths, let your whole body go limp and rest between contractions. Having a focal point helps some people. Personally, I liked to close my eyes and not see what was going on around me so I could concentrate on what I was doing.

I am looking to learn meditation and relaxation techniques so that I begin meditating. I know there are several different styles of meditation techniques that involve different ways to breathe. Where do I begin?

relaxation techniques that can relieve and reduce stress, including practices such … Stress Relief: Yoga, Meditation, and Other Relaxation Techniques Relaxation techniques have been proven to ease the many symptoms of Attention … most from ones that concentrate on stress relief or a beginner’s course….

how can I meditate easily? I want to learn meditation.. I don’t know the difference between hindu and buddhist.. meditation..also christian.. I want to know meditation.. for my anxiety to be in peace.

try here http://www.freemeditation.ca/

I am have problems with dealing with large amounts of stress and test anxeity.

u will got ur answer at this site
http://divyayoga.com/main.htm
this site give u the details of yoga whch u can do in easy steps

Before training how long do you usually meditate? What techniques can I personally try out? Thanks.

When I started meditating, I learned an awareness exercise. Many people try to meditate by forcing their mind blank, but the mind is the wrong tool for meditation. Awareness is the meditative faculty that needs to be strengthened like a muscle. Once you understand your awareness faculty, you can use it and move it around at will.

Start in a relaxed position and become aware of a particular body part, say the left knee. Don’t picture it in your mind, just become aware of it. Now, increase that awareness. After a short time, move this awareness to a different body part, say the back of your head. Become aware of it. This is not thinking about it or picturing it. Just be aware. Feel the energy within and around it. Increase this awareness. After a short time, become aware of your heart in the same manner. Increase the awareness. Let it expand outward, outside of the body to slowly encompass everything. The room, the neighborhood, the world, the universe, beyond.

The point of this is to learn your awareness faculty and strengthen it. It teaches you how to pick it up and move it around. Soon, you will be able to pick it up and put it down at will. When you are aware, you are in the now. Your mind is not telling stories of the past or future which don’t exist in the now. You are present.

I once read that you can meditate 20 times a day for just a minute and get more meditative time than trying to meditate for an hour while your head is chattering for 59 of those minutes. This is what I do most. Once you can enter into awareness of now at will, you can drop into meditation very quickly. When the head starts talking, it’s time to move on. I occasionally meditate for more time, but not usually more than 15 minutes. If my head starts thinking, I observe the thought, then become aware of my breathing to bring myself back into awareness of now.

Sometimes, I meditate merely to be present. Sometimes, I do what is called contemplative meditation. This is when I want clarity of an event or situation in my life, or an action, if any, to take. I take the issue into meditation without any stories about what is happening or what I should do. Sometimes while in meditation, a solution comes to me, sometimes not. Sometimes there is nothing that need be done at that time. Many things work themselves out without our action.

The whole point is to be present, in the now. That’s all that really exists. The past is merely a collection of memories of events and my stories about those events. The future is just a collection of memories of the past that I project about the future. It’s all just a bunch of electrons firing off in my head, in the now. Because now is all there is.

When in class or when a situation arises on the street, it is very important to be present, in the now, uncluttered by mind chatter. This is full focus.

could someone explain how these meditation technique works?
its a little confusing to me that’s all, thanks in advance.

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My sense is this type of technique is very dangerous, particularly for a beginner, and/or for someone practicing on their own. I would start with a simpler technique. It is called Vipassana, and involves watching the breath. You simply sit comfortably, perhaps with legs crossed, back straight, and you watch as the breath comes into your belly and leaves your belly. No alteration of the breathing is needed. Eyes closed or half-open. If your awareness leaves your breath (as it almost certainly will!), simply notice, "ah, I am not watching my breath," and bring your attention back to your breath. Begin with five or ten minutes a day, in the morning or around sunset. Increase the time as you feel stronger.