| In this article we are going to take a quick peek | | | | Wisdom and Insight and is practiced throughout |
| at some of the most popular meditation | | | | the world by novices and advanced mediators as |
| techniques for beginners, and show you how to | | | | well. In my experience, however, while a very |
| you can quickly and easily transform your | | | | powerful technique, it can often take many years |
| consciousness and enter the magical mystery | | | | for a newbie Vipassana practitioner to derive the |
| beyond, and within - in mere moments! | | | | intended benefits, as many of our minds are |
| First of all, there are many, many different | | | | simply not yet ready to "observe" ourselves in |
| meditation techniques that all promise the same | | | | such an intensely insightful fashion. |
| great results and benefits - they all simply take | | | | In my opinion, the most powerful, |
| different roads to get to the same place. Many | | | | transformational and blissful way to meditate for |
| beginners will practice Transcendental meditation - | | | | a beginner is to simply use audio cues - be they in |
| or mantra meditation to entrain the brain to | | | | the form of a guided meditation, or using sound |
| resonate on one simple thing (in this case a word) | | | | technologies designed to "entrain the brain" into an |
| that repeated enough in a focused state of mind, | | | | altered state of consciousness. These have |
| will eventually open the pathways into a | | | | become very popular for their power, with some |
| transformative experience of self. Several of the | | | | saying even new meditators are having similar |
| Judeo/Christian meditation models share the same | | | | experiences to those of long term Zen monks. |
| basic approach, and all are viable and effective | | | | Wow! |
| ways for the beginner to get started quickly. | | | | Regardless of you start, simply get started! |
| There are other more complex models as well - | | | | Meditation WILL change your life for the better, |
| Vipassana meditation for example is a popular | | | | but only if you begin. And there is never a better |
| Buddhist meditation practice designed to facilitate | | | | time than NOW! |