Introduction to Meditation Techniques
Meditation Techniques, Mindfulness, and Spiritual Practices.
Three terms that are used today to talk about the same thing, Meditation Techniques and Spiritual Practices that followed as a daily discipline and integrated into our daily lives produce a considerable improvement in the quality of life both psychically and physically. Science, the academic world, has studied in the last three decades various protocols of meditation and spiritual practices and has focused its attention on the wisdom coming from many contemplative and religious traditions of diverse cultures, mainly from Eastern religions. These practices, in any case, are as common in the Christian Traditions as they are in Eastern Traditions.
In the study by Lutz, Dunne, and Davidson, “Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction,” The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridge University Press, 2007: 499-552. These meditation techniques and spiritual practices have been classified and divided into three broad groups:
Concentration Techniques –
Aim: to quiet the mind.
Open Presence Techniques. –
Aim: to maintain consciousness in the here/now by allowing a flow of non-judgmental thought.
Non-Referential Loving Kindness/Compassion techniques or what has traditionally been called devotional practices.
Aim: To open the heart
The classification is reasonable and concrete and makes it easy to classify the techniques in one of the three classes. On top of these techniques, we have contemplative methods or the practice of contemplation that we also teach in our courses. Meditation is a practice that we introduce into our daily routine, and that transforms our events allowing us to overcome with ease our everyday problems of life, and at the same time gives us a new perspective of things, which by its very nature, is the most obvious.
Meditation Techniques Origins
Meditation has been used by all cultures and spiritual traditions since ancient times, and today it has attracted scientific interest, and in the last 30 years, a large number of serious and competent studies have been carried out. The Spanish Meditation Society and IFSU are specialized in training meditation teachers who are fully qualified to transmit this ancient art that has recently been discovered by science.
Nowadays, in our modern and globalized society, meditation is appearing in the most unexpected places of our daily life. Secretaries who do it as part of their evening yoga class, teenagers who do it as part of their Karate class, truck drivers and their wives who do it in medical centers as part of the hypertension control program, or athletes who prepare themselves before a high competition match. All of them today use centering techniques derived from the ancient practice of meditation.
In this section of our Blog, we will unfold for all our readers the most complete study of meditation techniques and Spiritual Practices that you will be able to find. All these techniques have been practiced for millennia and studied scientifically. You will understand the whys and wherefores of the practices and techniques, and you will benefit from its practice by learning them through our courses in our online Teaching Platform of Meditation Techniques.
