The Bliss of Silence

Listening the Sounds of Nature & the Inner-Self

Meditation is  found in many cultures & traditions and takes many forms and names.
In most of the meditation techniques , after regulating the breath & relaxing the body muscles one is instructed or advised to use a 'Mantra' - specific phrase or single word - repeating it in their mind or aloud to sustain & retain the same meditative 'state' or reach that state.

It helps to use such suggestion or message not to go astray and to keep one on track set forth at the beginning of the meditation. The 'Mantra'  sums the goal of the meditation or desired outcome one assumes before they meditate.

Most people meditate because they are told or believe it is good for them in various ways. Many more do meditate to attain a higher level of inner peace & realization or awareness.

All along until now in this page I was attempting to distinguish Meditation in general with all its' techniques & names, weather religiously derived or spiritual in nature or that developed recently with the aid of bio-feedback or audio/visual multimedia such as sound tracks of sounds from the nature or relaxing music or music specifically made for achieving brain states ( Alpha, Beta, Theta ) through rhythm entrainment, and finally, both active meditation and transcendental meditation.