Analytical Meditation and Stabilizing Meditation

There are two broad categories of meditation: stabilizing meditation and analytical meditation, each of which consist of many methods.
Stabilizing meditations are basically concentration exercise designed to settle the mind into a period of uninterrupted focus on a single point- this is a exact opposite of our usual state of mind, which is forever distracted. Practicing mindfulness and concentrating on the breath, both described earlier, are example of this. Concentrating on a visualized image, a concept, or a mantra are other examples of stabilizing meditation..

Analytical meditations, on the other hand, involve periods and you consciously draw your mind to reflect upon and analyze a particular concept such as ‘emptiness’ ‘attachment’ or the nature of mind itself. The purpose of analytical meditation method is to gain conceptual understanding of how things are, to a depth that gives you enough clarity to convince you of the true nature of that concept. The process initially involves identifying wrong conceptions. For example, if you are exploring compassion, you would aim to arrive at some insight about compassion by first eliminating your misconceptions about compassion. Analytical meditation is therefore an intensive period of inward study. As such, analytical meditation is sometimes called ‘contemplation’.

Stabilizing and analytical meditation are usually combined within a single meditation session. For example, as you prepare to meditate on your breathing rhythm, as in
‘anapana’ (a stabilizing meditation) , it is helpful to spend a few minutes clarifying your state of which involves analytical thought. During both analytical meditations and stabilizing meditations , your mind will frequently wander, constantly causing you to bring your mind. At times it may be difficult to do this, at which point a return to a period of analyzing your state of mind will help.

During a session of analytical meditation, when you reach the point of intellectual understanding, is it then appropriate to let go of the thought process and focus your attention solely on associated feelings that arise. You will then arrive at a combined intellectual and experiential insight, causing your mind to become ‘one’ with the object of your meditation. This is unlikely to happen the first time you try it but, with repetition, sooner or later it will.

Your level of success will depend upon your depth of concentration, which will improve through regular practice. Regularity is actually more important than quantity, because your mind is strongly influenced by habitual patterns. If you do it regularly, your mind will come to expect it. This is how both good and bad habits are formed. So how long should a meditation session last? Start with five or ten minutes and build up to thirty minutes, ending your session before fatigue, aching knees and bottoms, and boredom set in. Do not push yourself too hard because as soon as it becomes a burden you won’t do it. One some days you will experience more distractions and discomforts, while an other days you will serene and focused. This is normal. View the troublesome sessions as opportunities to explore and grow. Also, you may often believe of you are making no progress, but think long-term. Result take time.

Empathy and Compassion

In addition to sharpening your mental focus, it is also important to become less self centered and more caring towards others. If your motivation in life genuinely is to help others, then of course you will have this quality already. Making a habit of reflecting deeply about the needs and suffering of others will enhance your caring attitude. Please remember that a focused mind does not necessarily mean a compassionate mind. One can focus one’s selfishness and hate as easily (if not more easily) than one can focus compassion. You need compassion to develop empathy, and you need empathy to enhance compassion.
So, why might we want to meditate? Answer : to connect with reality and therefore realize to interconnectedness of all things. To realize interconnectedness or unity, you need to surrender your belief in separateness. You must constantly remember that every person and creature is interdependent at many levels. Meditation and mindfulness will help you do that.

Benefits of Meditation

Benefits of Meditation is actually an endless possibilities. The ultimate of the full-time meditator is to remain in a state of ‘ reality awareness’ long enough to perceive what life and the universe is about. However, for full-time and part-time meditators, the short-term benefits of meditation consist of :

• greater equilibrium and clarity of mind, naturally leading to greater patience and tolerance of others
• less stress, because seemingly stressful things are see in perspective and therefore provoke a more positive reaction
• better health, because positive ,mental attitudes can help to heal physical and emotional problems
• fewer unrealistic expectations of people or things, therefore less disappointments and better relationships
• more realistic and positive self-image as our perception of reality broadens and deepens

Well, that's a short list of the benefits of meditation that you can achieve. But actually, as you progress through your practice, you will find many other benefits from your meditation.
So, good luck with your experiments.

Rise Up the Activity

We usually think that no time for sports. Actually there are many way that can help us to rise up the activity and burnt our calorie before accumulate become a fat:

a.       Try always to walk in any activity. Don't use the telephone to talk to a friend in room side, but walk to go to their room.

b.       Walk in fast and swing your arm. This will be seen that you look more active.

c.       Better use stairs than lift.

d.       Make your job more attractive by hearing music. You will finish the job faster and happy.

e.       After work, play with children in the garden. This will help you more active and build good relationship with your family.

f.         In a day that you feel very tired, try to take a walk in the night. You will feel fresh after that.

 

Starting Sport

Sport in regular time will not just make your weight down but will make you feel fresh and lessen the stress. Try to spend your time in your busy day for sport as your challenge, after you got the benefit, you will amaze how you can live without sport.

 

Attention: If you are more than 35 years old, very fat or have some dieses, you must consult with a doctor before you starting sport program.

 

Choose kind of sport that you like, especially sport together your friends or your family. The best choose is aerobic, sport that continue moving will make your heart and lungs strong. Examples:

• Fast walk
• Run on stay
• Aerobic gymnastic
• Ride a Bicycle
• Swimming
• Badminton
• Tennis
• Football

Common Guidelines

If never do sport before, better beginning with slowly and increasing the activity step by step as long as 3 to 6 months. Your body needs time for conditioning, for the beginner sometime too ambitious to aim something and finally ends with disappointed.

Diet Forever

Avoid a hard way diet, although it promote increasingly. To lose weight very fast often followed with increasing weight fast too. Even lessen and increase the weight too fast can disturb the metabolism system. So use diet rule that can maintained after the body weight have reached.

In the modern society there many slogan on how to lessen the weight and keep slim, because many benefits for us always keep the ideal weight along live.

• High tension blood
• Diabetes
• Hart attack
• Cancer
• Bone and hinge

Am I Overweight?

The easiest way to check that your body is

Do you know that the body form is also determines? If your body form tends to big on waist than on hip, your risk to get the dieses of overweight also bigger. The body form like this is called as "apple" form. On the contrary if your body tends fat on hip and thigh, you have a smaller risk on have those dieses. This body form is called as "peer" form. You can't change the body form, but you can turn down the risk with lessen your fat.

The formula to determine of ideal weight use a Body Mass Index (BMI):

BMI = Body Weight (kg)/(Your height (m) x Your height (m))

Means:

BMI = 20 - 25 is health

BMI = 26 - 30 is overweight

BMI = more than 30 is obesities

Mind Healing? Is it possible?

Sometimes I wonder, is there really any connection between our mind and healing process. According to my experience, mind healing is not always work.
I believe that not all illness related to our mind. For some specific illness that caused by stress, we can make our healing process faster by contolling our mind. The mind healing process can be done by using meditation or mindfulness.
As long as we accept our condition, this will make us more relax and make the mind healing process work.
For another type of illness that's not caused by our mind like stress, I don't think that mind healing will help at all.
What's your experience?

Immunization

Immunization program have purposed to protect the baby from

On giving these immunization sometime free its depend on government program. In Indonesia all of the kind of vaccine is given in free except Hepatitis B. Vaccine is given only to the health child.

The schedules on giving those vaccines are described below:

Age Vaccines

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When bird BCG, Hepatitis B (dose I)

1 month Hepatitis B (dose II)

2 months DPT and Polio (dose I)

3 months DPT and Polio (dose II)

4 months DPT and Polio (dose III)

5 months Polio (dose IV)

6 months Hepatitis (dose III)

9 months Measles

6 years DT (dose I and II)

12 years TT (dose I and II; just for women)

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