If I were to get in the Lotus position they would have to call an ambulance to undo me, but I have a similar experience with guided meditation. Guided meditation isn’t like Eastern Meditation where you try to stop thinking; as a matter of fact it is just the opposite. It is where you get relaxed enough to become hyper-focused. Guided meditation can be anything from reading a passage in your religion’s book and then closing your eyes and reenacting the scene in your mind with pictures and having some “artistic freedom” to fill in the gaps (this is what Catholics do when they pray the rosary), to listening to a recording complete with sound effects that accompany a story that you visualize as it is narrated. Take for example the library I have from Meditainment.com In one meditation you paddle a canoe down a gentle flowing river to a path that leads up through the trees from the bank and leads you to a field with all types of wildlife, and then you watch a sunset, and then go back the way you came. As you’re in the canoe you hear the paddle in the water, and hear buzzing from mosquitoes and such. You hear the canoe land on the bank and the narrator tells you to follow the path, etc. through the end of the meditation. It is a serious stress buster, relaxer, and it really helps you to focus when you’re done. I love them. I try to do one around midday and then fall to sleep to one designed for that purpose. Think of it as a guided day dream. Although you can find short ones for free, I enjoy them most when they are about 20 minutes long. This really gives plenty of time to get relaxed and focused and not have to “wake up” abruptly. I also pray the rosary each night too. A lot of people misunderstand this and do not realize we are meditating (reliving the events of the Christian gospels from memory and viewing the story in pictures) and just think we are repeating prayers mindlessly over and over. The prayers are like a background rhythm that keeps you focused.
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