Meditation Types
In this article I will cover the most important meditation types. There are more types of meditation, but they usually are very similar to the ones I mention or not that effective, therefore I omitted some.
After reading about these different types of meditation you will be able to select the meditation that suits you most.
Mantra meditation This meditation is suitable for people who want regular meditation and do not want to experience deep connection with the universe.
Mantra meditation is not as deep as breath meditation, but it can still make you feel really relaxed and peaceful.
To practice this meditation you should repeat some word or sentence mantra in your mind throughout the whole meditation.
Whenever you feel that you are getting involved in some thoughts, you should let them go and come back to your mantra. You should never force yourself to come back to mantra, but do it easily, by firstly letting go of the thoughts.
You should not literally repeat some phrase, but you should hear it in your mind. Usually the phrase people use is ‘I AM’ because of the sound it has. This sound lets you really relax and go deeper into meditation.
This meditation type is very calm, but sometimes you may get some visions or sounds that you have never seen or heard before. Do not get scared, it is normal. You are just expanding your sensory perception.
Also, you may get involuntary body movements. This is normal too because through these movements your nervous system is cleansed by the universal energy that you get during meditation.
You may also feel the heaviness of your head, this is because you are letting the universal energy easily flow through you. This happens in all meditation types, not only this one. I personally really like this sense of heaviness, because I know that very positive energy is flowing through me and cleansing any impurities I may have in my nervous system.
Breath meditation This is deeper than mantra meditation type because it lets you relax much quicker and you may find yourself in the fourth dimension at some times during this meditation.
Because breathing is so usual, and in this meditation you focus on breathing, you can relax much more because you cannot get too much involved in breathing.
You should not control your breathing, just observe it. You should let it naturally flow through you, and you should be an awareness behind the breathing.
You can actually feel when you are getting deeper into this meditation type. You are going through the stages of meditation.
You can notice that firstly you have thoughts, but you keep refocusing on your breathing; then you become still; absolute stillness overtakes you and you can feel energy circling though you and warming your body; you can even get the feeling of your body numbing, or melting, when you do not feel any particular part of your body because you can only feel your energy.
This stillness is the last stage of your everyday sense of being. After that you get into the fourth dimension where you can hear different kinds of sounds and visions. This is a very pleasant dimension, but only for those that are positive most of the time.
This dimension is very similar to the one you enter when you are dreaming. You may see some scenes playing out of people you know or you do not know, sometimes you may be involved in a scene or you may be a passive observer of the scene.
You may find it hard to remember this dimension when you finish meditating. You will know that you have experienced something different, but most of it you will not remember.
I have never experienced anything scary in this dimension, but I know that some fearful/angry/depressed people can really suffer when they get to this stage. So be aware of that and only go this deep when you feel very positive.
Guided meditation This is a specific kind of meditation type when you want to reach your spirit guides. People want to talk with their guides for many reasons. You can make the connection with your guides when you want to find out some answer or just want to see who your spirit guides are and what they have to tell you.
If you want to try this meditation type you should purchase guided meditation CDs or find free guided meditation recordings online. They usually include relaxing music or nature sounds and the voice of another person telling you what you should see in your mind whilst you are meditating.
The guiding voice usually tells you that you should imagine some pleasant place, like a forest or beautiful jungle with waterfalls or something similar. And when you settle down in this pleasant place you should ask your guides to show themselves to you.
I tried this meditation type and I have actually seen two of my spirit guides, but only after the meditation. I tried this meditation once but I think I have tried too hard to see my guides, because after the meditation I did not feel well (I did some channelled writing too, which felt really good but took a lot of energy out of me).
However, this happened because after meditation I tried again to connect with my spirit guides. This was too much for me and that night I could not sleep because I felt very bad pressure in my temples and I kept seeing visions of places I have never been to.
To avoid the mistake I made you should meditate only for the time period indicated in the CD/piece of guided meditation that you listen to. If you get bad pressure in your temples or general heaviness of your head, you should do some grounding activities like going for a walk, eating junk food (I know it is bad, but it really grounds you) or watching TV. You can do anything that is very earthy and will reconnect you with earth and distance you from other dimensions.
Zen meditation The most important aspect of this meditation type is your posture. There are different kinds of postures that you can choose, including Burmese posture, lotus posture or even sitting in a chair.
You should always keep your back straight during this meditation to allow natural flow of breath. You should also wear very comfortable clothes to allow yourself to breath deeply.
You should not control your breath, just let it flow naturally. To keep chi energy inside you (the energy of life, universal energy in other words), you should always exhale through your nose rather than you mouth. Your mouth should always be closed.
During this meditation type your eyes should be looking down, almost closed. You should relax all muscles and have no tension in your face.
Your focus should be on your breath. Be aware of yourself as a whole, but mainly concentrate on your breath. Relax each time you take your breath and make sure that your back is always straight.
Reiki meditation Reiki healing is usually received from another person that is more connected to the universal energy, but you can also do it to yourself without the help of anyone else.
The main idea behind Reiki healing is that you receive source energy that heals whatever imbalances you have in your body or mind.
Reiki meditation has many different techniques, but basically it involves letting the white (healing, universal) light come into you through your hands or the crown (the top of your head) and let it flow through you.
When you start meditating, breath deeply to relax your muscles and mind. When you feel relaxed, imagine white light coming into your head and imagine it going down your whole body, till it goes through your toes. Make the light go slow, stopping and cleansing the places that you feel need healing.
It is important to see the light going through you and out of you, because if you keep the light inside you, this can make you receptive to the energies of others. This is a good thing if you are surrounded by very positive people, but if any of the people are negative, it can drain the energy out of you.
Chakra meditation this meditation type concentrates on seven energy centres in our body seven chakras.
Chakra meditation is very short, it can be as short as one minute. Its main purpose is to cleanse chakras so that the universal energy could flow freely through you.
Starting from the root chakra and all the way up to the crown chakra, you should visualise each chakra as a transparent ball with appropriate colour (Read this article about chakras to see which colour belongs to which chakra), make it spin clockwise and cleanse it by breathing deeply.
You should do the whole process in your mind, and although it may seem that you are imagining the whole process, you are actually cleaning the chakras this way. These energy centres are very responsive and whenever you concentrate on each energy centre, it will react in some way.
So if you cleanse each chakra by making it spin faster, making it brighter and removing any dark spots (by imagining that you are breathing white light inside each ball) you will make these energy centres more allowing to let the universal energy go through.
This meditation type will help you become more energetic, will get you into the flow of life and raise your mood.
Psychic meditation – This is a very different meditation type because it requires to concentrate on your thoughts instead of letting them go. So you should follow the strings of thoughts wherever they lead you.
This way you can discover blocks of intelligence from other dimensions. This way people become channels to the deceased or other non-physical entities.
You should sit comfortably in any place you like and relax by breathing deeply for a couple of minutes. Whenever you get some thought, notice it and get involved with it, but do not force it to develop.
You should let the thought take you wherever it wants to take you, and you should not control the flow of it in any way. This way you will become connected to other dimensions.
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