This is the second video of the series about
meditation,
so if you haven't watched the
first one, go check it out and then come back here.
Well, in addition to the analogy of a "monkey
mind" that you've seen in the first
video, another analogy that we
can use to understand our minds
is that of a rough sea.
Our minds spend the day
going from one place to another, from a
thought to the next, as if it
were in a rough sea. And what
can we do to calm it down?
To calm our minds a little bit,
we can anchor it.
So meditation is nothing
but the use of anchors
to calm the mind. And there are many
types of meditation because there are
many types of anchors and some of
most common types of meditation are:
Transcendental meditation which is a type
of meditation that uses a mantra as an
anchor,
so basically you repeat
a word or series of words
mentally for a certain time.
The most well-known mantra is the AUM or OM, but
different mantras are more or less effective
for different people, so not everyone
uses the AUM as their mantra.
♪ AUM ♪
Guided visualizations can
use not only images, but colors and
words as anchors, so the guide
tells a story and you
imagine that story mentally.
"Imagine that you are a few
Kilometers from a mountain."
Sound meditation.
In this type of meditation, you use
a relaxing song or a Buddhist bell
as anchors.
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Yoga and its different types which
use not only body movement,
but also poses and the breath as anchors.
And finally Mindfulness meditation
that focus on the present
moment and in this type of meditation,
you can also use different
types of anchors.
For instance, you can perform a
body scan which is paying
attention to each part of your body
separately, noticing the sensations
you feel in each part. You can also
use background sounds as
anchors, so you basically close your
eyes and pay attention to street sounds and
all sounds around you
in the present moment.
And finally, you can use your
own breath as an anchor which
I think is the most used anchor
by those who practice this type of meditation.
So basically, you totally
focus on your breathing. You
should focus where you
feel your breath most strongly,
so it can be in your nostrils, on
your chest or in your stomach, so you close your
eyes and focus on your inspiration and expiration
for a few minutes.
The coolest thing about these anchors--
breath, sounds, mantra--is that
they bring you to a deeper
place. So going back to the analogy of
the sea, the sea can be very, very rough
on the surface, but if you go
deeper, you'll see that down
there, it's not that rough, it's
calmer and that's what the anchor does;
it brings your mind to a deeper and
calmer place.
Well, I hope you have enjoyed
this summary I made about the
different types of meditation,
keep in mind that this list is non-
exhaustive, there are other types of
meditation in addition to the ones I've
mentioned, but I think the ones I've
mentioned are the most common ones,
so the secret is to try
many of these types of meditation and
see which one works best for you
and also, you don't need to pick
one or another, you can mix these
types of meditation, so, for instance,
you can do 5 minutos of one, 5
minutes of another. The secret is to try them out and see which
one you like the most and which one works best
for you. And next month,
I'm planning to make the third and
last video of this series about
meditation,
so I'll talk a little bit about what
I particularly do and I'll also
recommend some apps
that I use that help me meditate and that
help making
meditation a habit.
So I hope you have enjoyed it,
if you have any questions,
leave them below and I'll
try to answer them in the next video.
Thank you very much for watching this video and kisses! :)