How to meditate?

You may have heard of meditation, and you may relate it to wanderers or bearded yogis but you dont know exactly what is meditation or how to do it, first we have to understand the etymology, the English meditation is derived from the Latin meditatio, from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder".
Meditation is basically a training of the mind in which the individual focus the mind on a single point and reaches different levels of consciousness, in meditation the mind purifies from unconscious mental processes by focusing all the libido or mental energy on one single point. Now lets answer the question, How to meditate? There are many forms of meditation:

1.- Mindfulness also called vipassana, it is said that buddha attained enlightenment using this form of meditation, it consist of letting the thoughts go and focusing the attention on the inhalation and exhalation of air through the nose.

2.- Kundalini meditation: This meditation consist of an observation and manipulation of the sleeping inner energy that according to the yogic philosophy it is located on the root chakra or muladhara coiled like a snake, it is said that those who awaken the kundalini obtain psychic abilities and reach higher levels of consciousness, many systems of yoga focus on the awakening of the kundalini through meditation, pranayama breathing, the practice of asana and chanting of mantras.

3.- Mantra meditation: Is a form of meditation based on mantras, mantras are phonemes believed by some to have  psychological or spiritual power, this meditation consist on pronouncing certain mantras and focusing the mind on the mantras beign pronunced.

4.- Brainwave entrainment meditation: This meditation consist of focusing the mind on brainwave entrainment audios like binaural beats or isochronic tones.

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