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How do you meditate?
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It helps to have peace and quiet, and be comfortable. 
It isn't just letting yourself go, but rather focusing your thoughts on specific things. Like the Mysteries of the Rosary, or the Stations of the Cross. It's quite hard at first, until you learn how to discipline your mind. Mine tries to flutter all over the place, still.
It isn't just letting yourself go, but rather focusing your thoughts on specific things. Like the Mysteries of the Rosary, or the Stations of the Cross. It's quite hard at first, until you learn how to discipline your mind. Mine tries to flutter all over the place, still.
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Yeah don't do buddhist, or any type of meditation other than what the church considers holy and pious. Meditation is really contemplation on a mystery of God.
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One way is to pick a passage from one of the gospels, and picture in your mind -- place yourself in the scene that is taking place -- i.e. When Jesus is teaching the crowd the Beatitudes... you are one of the persons in the crowd, listening to Jesus -- what do you see? what do you hear? what do you feel? or, perhaps you're someone apart from the crowd, someone off to the side, watching the whole scene --
let the Gospel stories come alive, by allowing yourself to be present and to be part of it.
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let the Gospel stories come alive, by allowing yourself to be present and to be part of it.
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One of the aspects of the rosary is that it is a form of meditative prayer. You are praying the same words over and over (which almost serves like a mantra in that it gives your mind something to focus on rather than just wandering) while you are contemplating specific truths.
One of the big differences between Christian meditation and new age/buddhist meditation is that in buddhist meditation the goal is to empty your mind and 'go blank' while in Christian meditation you are actively contemplating scriptural truths.
In addition to the rosary, there are numerous prayers by various saints throughout history (such as St. Patrick, St. Francis, etc.) that can be used in the same way.
Others use the Psalms the same way... praying/reading through them, while focusing on specific aspects of the nature of Christ.
Still others use a crucifix or an icon to focus on.
I'm sure others here can jump in with more 'methods.' An important thing to note here is that there are a number of different methods-- just as there are different ways of praying. It's not so much a matter of learning the 'right' way, as learning what works for you.
One of the big differences between Christian meditation and new age/buddhist meditation is that in buddhist meditation the goal is to empty your mind and 'go blank' while in Christian meditation you are actively contemplating scriptural truths.
In addition to the rosary, there are numerous prayers by various saints throughout history (such as St. Patrick, St. Francis, etc.) that can be used in the same way.
Others use the Psalms the same way... praying/reading through them, while focusing on specific aspects of the nature of Christ.
Still others use a crucifix or an icon to focus on.
I'm sure others here can jump in with more 'methods.' An important thing to note here is that there are a number of different methods-- just as there are different ways of praying. It's not so much a matter of learning the 'right' way, as learning what works for you.
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