strategy
Meditating
Synonyms:
Practising intense awareness Description:
Many systems of meditation are available. Some stress the centering of the mind beyond observed reality, others (perhaps more accurately referred to as reflecting) stress the considering of truths that have great importance in ordering and living life in a profound and peaceful manner.
Context:
Most religious traditions use meditation with greater or less emphasis, especially those members who dedicate their lives to religious pursuits. Contemporary self-improvement groups stress its importance.
Implementation:
Common techniques involve silently repeating a mantra or fixing your gaze on an object. There are also active meditations, the dervish dancing of certain Sufis being perhaps the most vigorous.
Claim:
Meditation enables the practitioner to come closer to his own being, to spiritual freedom or to unity with God.
Counter Claim:
Meditation promotes inwardness, tranquility and detachment from the status quo, thus providing support for it.
Narrower:
Using transcendental meditation Facilitates:
Healing illnessExploring realitySupporting spirituallyPreventing hypertensionDeveloping holiness in priestly life Problems:
Essential hypertensionOrganizations:
International Meditation Society Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School Osho Spiritual Health Organization Meditation Group of United Nations Staff Members, Geneva BLI International Meditation Center Buddha-Gaya International Buddhist Meditation Centre, Bangkok World Community for Christian Meditation Dhammakaya International Meditation Centre International Health Care Worker Safety Center References:
Matos, Leo: Experiencing Separate Realities With and Without Drugs: meditation as an eventual alternative to drug useTrungpa, C: Meditation in ActionShapiro, Deane H: Meditation: self-regulation strategy and altered state of consciousnessMartinus: MeditationPapal Writings: Menti Nostrae Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies