What's the science behind meditation?

Meditation saved my life.

It's sad that the only helpful videos you guys post gets the least amount of views

I'm a STEM student who does meditation everyday. I'm planning on making this as a research topic

I love guided meditation. I created my own world from several ones I liked and now I can go there anytime I want and fall right to sleep. It takes practice, but it's so well worth it!

Meditation is something done at all times.

"Meditation over prayer" - Osho

"A wandering mind is an unhappy mind." -Matthew A. Killingsworth

Meditation is amazing we definitely do this

I meditate 1 hour every morning then 30 mins (hopefully after work) and I can tell u it’s cured my depression and anxiety pretty much and for me it’s a spiritual activity where the objective is to slow the mind and hopefully by focusing on our breath eventually thought stops and for the time it stops u just feel totally connected to everyone and everything and it feels so spacious and I know for those few minutes I am not my body or any label u could add I’m just one with all there is and it’s such a amazing thing to not hear that chatter in ur head judging all the time and I’m this moment I’m a higher self or trie self. For awhile after beginning meditation I had to delve inside and face all the things I was ashamed of, afraid of and learn to have compassion for myself b4 I could have it for others. And that’s hard cause u must face all the parts of your self u prolly don’t like and make peace with them. After that I really started making big changes n the way I think and how I see the world. Everything is a wonder. It’s all new. A tree, a flower isn’t really tree or flower. We gave them names tree, flower but really we don’t know truly what anything is except that I experience and therefore I exist. The rest of world could b simulated , or the rest of ppl could act, look, and seem conscious but only my consciousness can I ever really be sure of. It’s just opens u up to so much that would have seemed insane but now I know it to be true. So pls try it I think anyone can benefit from mediation

Folks needed this over covid and also their ensuing rage coming from before, during and after.

Hiking and running are great types of meditation for very energetic people like myself.

All existence unfolds in a unified field of consciousness, and our awareness, which is glimpsed through deep meditation, is a powerful conduit this field. Continued regular meditation can facilitate our ability to tap into the awareness of that field.

I meditate sometimes for me it's very relaxing and so enlightening🤔

In the latest video on the Practical Health channel, it says that there are only 2 types of meditation practices - concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation. Basically, every time I focus on something, only on that object, I meditate. Is it really the case?

Trying to "Empty your mind" is a good description of Zen Meditation. It is an effort to acknowledge that we have a little self-interested Monkey inside our heads that keeps a running commentary on everything we do, ruining the purity of our experience. Trying to stop it, which is almost impossible, is the practice of Zen. It took me years of sitting every single day to stop it for one instant. When I did, I had Satori. Of course, trying to describe it is somewhat counter to the principle itself, but I think by saying "Don't try to empty your mind" you are deliberately discounting Zen.

what does it mean?

Thank you for always posting your videos! We seem to be living in the present moment, but in fact, we spend a lot of time thinking about the past and the future, in a state of "not being here in mind. In particular, the more negative our thoughts are, such as past failures and future worries, the more time we tend to spend thinking about them. In other words, we are amplifying our own anxiety and stress. A state of mindfulness is a state in which one is able to get out of this state of mindlessness and turn one's mind to the present. Meditation is a way to reach a state of mindfulness where the mind is focused on the present. More and more companies, especially IT companies, are incorporating mindfulness meditation into their employee training programs.

This a good reminder. Thanks for the video.

i do every day with my 💙

That is only partly true. Most modern meditation practices derive from 1000s year old Buddhist methods. Unfortunately modern teachers, of mindfulness meditation, do not have the toolbox and wisdom of our buddhist masters. They often call out their students to be wrong, if they fx experience more thoughts as a result of doing meditation training. Where as a master of meditation, will see it as a really good result of one’s practice, since the student is becoming more aware of what it really going on in the mind. To buddhist meditation is not about relaxation. That is simply an added benefit of the practice. To buddhists meditation means becoming 100% aware at any moment - and recognising minds patterns as well as letting thing be as they are. With no reason to add or subtract from any situation. To stop imposing one’s ego onto everything. Until that stage has been reached, you are only training in meditation. And that state has to become permanent and not some forced state. It has to be naturally present at all times.