When I WILD I meditate, when I sleep I meditate, when I live I meditate.
It might sound silly to you, what's the point of just sitting down and doing nothing? Well that's what one think when you first hear about meditation and if you observe someone who is meditating it looks like he is doing nothing. Although if you observe a stressed person you'll see that he is doing too much!
Meditation means that you just sit and just be.
BE WHAT?! Haha your not trying to be anything you just try to sit and realize what you are. That's the deeper side of meditation and not something that can be explained, if I would try to explain it myself I would say to ground yourself with the true essence of yourself and realize that you are nature, sort of. But even this would be wrong because this might make you try to groudn yourself and realize something and that is doing, which wont lead you anywhere. The process of doing nothing is the process of letting nature do it for you.
Like a charging battery you get filled with the energy you need by just doing nothing. So don't try to do anything. do there is not try. Just sit and meditate.
Ok sorry for going off-topic, I will now tell you how I see practical uses of meditation.
First of all a simple meditation: Breath Meditation - Just relax and focus on your body's natural breathing. Sounds easy? Well try it..
What is a dream? Have you ever asked yourself that? An easy definition of dreams for me would be that it is your subconscious, memories and emotions.
So what does it then mean to be aware of a dream? SIMPLE! To be aware of the subconscious, memories and emotions.
When you meditate, you observe without judging, do without doing see without seeing and with the breathing meditation - to breathe without breathing.
For example when you start thinking random thoughts like "The elephant doesn't like when you throw that ball" believe me this will happen well don't focus on that thought you will most likely fall asleep, so just observe it and think peacefully "Ok there was a thought let's go back to meditation" let's say that this is being aware of the subconscious.
Then you might think back to your day and analyze the information like "I wonder who that girl I saw on the bus was..." Again just peacefully think "Ok another thought, back to meditation".
Let's see this as being aware of memories.
And the last one emotions... Sometimes you can get filled with negative emotions like "Why am I doing this? This is stupid! I am bored! I HATE MEDITATION!" Again... "Just a thought back to meditation!"
After some time these the thinking will reduce and you will just BE. A wonderful feeling
When strange sensations occur, usually vibrations you can start thinking of something like visualizing something to get to a dream.
Remember that even if you fall asleep in this process your chance of becoming a dream is increased depending on how long you meditated, because meditation is conscious sleep which brings you closer to REM with each time that passes. And also sleep is unconscious meditation
I hope this answered your question And here is some links that might be useful:
Meditation And The Ego - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Meditation And Proper Breathing - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/wastin...0/#post1957152
Happy meditation
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