What counts as meditation?

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6 years 4 months ago #292447 by Vigebo
They say how you meditate isn't wrong or right. There are many different ways of doing it in several positioning and styles. But then I ask you TotJO; what do you see as meditation? Meditation is something that calms you down, makes you get to know yourself and improves you. Therefore you could say doing whatever you like is meditation. Somebody gets relaxed and get to know themselfs and how they really are by doing hobbies like reding books, playing videogames, gardening or whatever....... what is meditation?

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6 years 4 months ago #292454 by Zenchi
Replied by Zenchi on topic What counts as meditation?
The removal of all external distractions from the center of one's focus, temporarily allowing the individual to experience the simplicity and wonder of being in the timeless present...

That's what meditation is to me...
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6 years 4 months ago #292462 by Adder
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I tend to classify it as any adjustment in focus/awareness which mediates the awareness between subconscious and conscious processes. Ranging from subtle influences to applied transformations with various types and states in between (going either way)... since awareness tends to be considered what is the elf in self :D
But to do so seems to exclude the potential of metaphysical modes of existence or awareness so its only a working definition to link back to my interest in the body and science... so its not a rigid, set definition.
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6 years 4 months ago #292477 by steamboat28
Meditation is the act of freeing the mind from servitude of distractions and letting it master itself for a while, I think. It stops reacting and starts acting.
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6 years 4 months ago #292486 by Kit
Replied by Kit on topic What counts as meditation?
It's...whatever gives me a sense of balance within myself and a bit of rightness in my world. As much as I love games and reading, those aren't meditations for me. Too active. I find shamanic journeys, repetitive crafts (cross stitching, chainmaille, knitting, crochet, coloring, hand-sewing), and gardening to work for me. It gives me a chance to stop the world for a bit. The journeys will often give me lessons, comfort, or information. The crafts and gardening lets me add a bit of beauty and sense to my world. Crafting is my special talent I guess you can say :) so exercising it is one big way I can show my love and myself.
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6 years 4 months ago #292489 by J. K. Barger
"Any movement towards the (Great/Mystic) Center (Dai Bendu)".

For a Jedi, I would surmise that the Force is this mystic center that is the spiritual link that runs through all things, and by following it or observing it's patterns, we get a "feel" for its flow, and in observing or moving with this flow, one gets a sense of where this universal impulse came from, how it manifests, and where it is going so that we ourselves can embody this flow, making a path of conductions of spiritual light shared between all things.

OR something like that.

Who knows really? It's expressed differently by us all.
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