Appendix a – Meditation Worksheet
Meditation Worksheet Directions
Locate two resources on the Internet that explain meditation techniques. Copy and paste the web address into the top of the matrix. After reviewing the website, provide a brief summary for each source. Below your summary, list two interesting facts you learned from each site. Try the techniques you located in your Internet search. Provide a brief description of what happened in your experience.
Be sure to answer the two questions below the matrix also. Things happen so quickly in this fast-paced world. Decisions are made without thought. This could cause stress to build and affect the way people deal with life. Everyone needs to stop and take a few minutes to calm down. So if life is stressing you out, it’s time to slow down. Meditation can help relieve stress and worries.
The practice of meditation is a way to be still for a while and let our minds become focused until we become calm enough to deal with the daily pressures of life. Mediation can mean different things to different people. Mediation can be defined in three main types: focused attention- concentration, open monitoring-contemplation, and automatic self-transcending – the Transcendental Mediation Program. Transcendental Meditation also known as TM. TM is the most widely practiced, most researched, and most effective method of self-development mediation technique.
Two interesting Facts:
Meditation can improve Concentration
Two commonly used exercises are:
- Mantra – a phrase or a sound that is recited repeatedly
- Breathing – achieved by inhaling through the nose, letting the diaphragm (not the chest) expand and exhaling through the mouth
Breathing is an integral part of meditation
Proper breathing is required in many practices of meditation and is therefore an important tool to be possessed by people who wish to mediate. The practice of proper breathing while meditating slows down a person’s heart rate which leads to a relaxed mood.
While this may sound easy, it can be quite challenging when done for the first time.
- Transcendental Meditation is the most popular technique. It is practiced by people of all ages, cultures, and religions. More than five million people worldwide practice this simple, natural technique.
- People who practice Transcendental Meditation find themselves more alert, calmer, more energetic, dynamic, yet somehow wiser, as if you have a broader perspective on their daily activities and experiences. What happened after you tried each technique? After trying each technique one should feel relaxed and a sense of heighten awareness.
