The Various Stages of Meditation
To reach meditation, you require the three big steps:
Relaxation: Control of yourself can mean relaxing your mind and your
body
You must, control your emotions, your passions, your nerves, your
thoughts, your imagination, your desires, your bad habits, your
impulses, your aspirations. Control yourself internally.
Everything in you should be controlled, so that you can know your
forces better, and how to use them
It is convenient to control yourself in all circumstances, and mainly,
to control your heart, if it is capable of hating or has unhealthy
feelings, control your mind, putting a stop to your thoughts and
aspirations, the same for your desires and passions, and mainly do not
allow it to hurt, even with the intention. Control your soul, feeding
it with good intentions and pure and noble thoughts.
To control your body, you need to learn how to breathe properly
This consists at four steps:
1. To inhale deep
2. To hold the air (store)
3. To exhale deeply
4. To hold your organism empty.
And repeat this for about 4 or more times, every time you have to
count at least until 7 for every step.
This is a good practice for purifying your blood and detoxing your
whole body.
You also have to stretch and tense all your muscles to their maximum
after each breathing.
The second grand step is concentration:
This is our being's fixed attention on the necessities of the life.
Avoid dissipating your forces and acting without purposes or to
respond to thoughts and unworthy destructive feelings or contrary to
our soul's nobility. Concentration allows to giv...
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...erson who is inhaling.
We do some type of meditation while holding one another's hands, to
feel the energy passing between us.
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http://www.mdnh.org/biblio/humanite/mirada.htm (Spanish)
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The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Sather
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Also these authors
Anaxagoras.
Anaximander
Democritus
Empedocles
Heraclites
Parmenides
Protagoras
Pythagoras
Thales
Zeno of Elea
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