METHODS OF MEDITATION- A STUDY

Meditation has been a spiritual and healing practice in some parts of the world for more than 1,000 years. The word “meditation” is derived from the Latin “meditari,” which means “to engage in contemplation or reflection” or “to heal’’. Historically, religious or spiritual aims were intrinsic to any form of meditation. These traditional practices held some type of spiritual growth, enlightenment, personal transformation, or transcendental experience as their ultimate goal. During the last 40 years, the practice of meditation has become increasingly popular and has been adapted to the specific interests and orientation of Western culture as a complementary therapeutic strategy for a variety of health-related problems. Both secular forms of meditation and forms rooted in religious and spiritual systems have increasingly attracted the interest of clinicians, researchers, and the general public, and have gained acceptance as important mind-body interventions within integrative medicine (the combination of evidence-based conventional and alternative approaches that address the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness) Meditation was the first mind body intervention to be widely adopted by mainstream healthcare providers and incorporated into a variety of therapeutic programs in hospitals and clinics now a days. Meditation is the process of knowing and realizing myself as a divine power or soul and getting connected with the Supreme soul- Almighty authority through all the relations. Through this one can get all the divine powers, strengths, values and virtues Meditation has been characterized in many ways in the scientific literature and there is no consensus definition of meditation. This diversity in definitions reflects the complex nature of the practice of meditation and the coexistence of a variety of perspectives that have been adopted to describe and explain the characteristics of the practice. Therefore, we recognize that any single definition limits the practice artificially and fails to account for important nuances that distinguish one type of meditation from another.