When beginning a meditation practice, you may not be aware that there are certain items that can be used to help strengthen your focus, increase your relaxation and ultimately improve the quality and depth of your meditation. Here are 3 meditation tools for beginners that will enhance your experience immensely.

Tool #1 – Prayer Beads

Utilization of prayer beads can help bring your mind into a single focus on specific mantras and/or prayers used during your meditations....

Meditation refers to a state where your body and mind are consciously relaxed and focused.  Practitioners of this art report increased awareness, focus, and concentration, as well as a more positive outlook in life.

Meditation is most commonly associated with monks, mystics and other spiritual disciplines.  However, you don't have to be a monk or mystic to enjoy its benefits.  And you don't even have to be in a special place to practice it.  You could even...

Chakra meditation is one of the more popular meditation techniques used today. Its philosophy is based upon the discovery or the search of the charkas. A charka can be considered as an energy point or force in the body that tries to govern different physical, mental and spiritual functions in an individual. It is the practice of awakening the charka in the body that is the aim of chakra meditation.

According to the practice of chakra meditation, there are seven chakras locate din...

Death in the Bible versus Quran: Job and the Shadow of death (1)

1. In the Quran, Death is mentioned 34 times, and the Shadow of death is not found therein.

It is interesting that Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses etc. did not talk about the Shadow of death and it is Job who was the first one ever who talks about the Shadow of death.

A Biblical verse (Job 1:1) talks about Job’s Character, it says thatJob was perfect, blameless...

Easy lucid dream techniques are difficult to find, especially ones that are guaranteed to work. All the techniques that I use to try would require me to re-pattern and reprogram myself so that my perceived nature of reality would change by using simple affirmations. If you have ever tried this you will know that it is not an easy lucid dream technique, in fact it is quite difficult.

Repeating the words "I am dreaming" over and over again is supposedly one of the easy...

Shaman Consciousness

If you thought being psychic or having some extra natural power was eerie, then it is time you change that outlook.  Today, there are researches and studies that go all the way out to prove that it is quite possible and feasible for the human brain to understand and know a lot of things that are above the normal limits.  Science and technology don’t give you all the answers and there are still certain themes and concepts that defy the...

Caught up with seasonal infections? It’s not something unusual to be a prey in the hands of seasonal weather changes including infections. You can’t possibly avoid it but at least ensure effective measures to come out clean from them. Gamut of allergy relief medications are available in the market for your convenience.

Nasacort is a nasal spray which is employed for treating seasonal infections effectively. It is available only by means of prescription, which...

One of the most longstanding reasons for meditation and perhaps one of the major reasons why many people today are put off the thought of meditating is because of its spiritual or religious origins. Or more specifically, the claims that meditation helps a person to reach "Enlightenment" or "God" or the "Spirit" or the "Soul" or anything else that is somehow beyond reality as we commonly know and experience it. And so to some people, the concept of...

It seems that we are in a time of spiritual enlightenment, as more people are gaining an awareness of the value of meditation techniques, yoga practices, and other methods of self-awareness that are instrumental in fostering spiritual growth. However, there are many different aspects of spirituality to consider and often it can be easy to miss some of the most fundamental and simple things. One of these fundamentals that can either help or hinder spiritual development is complete...

Meditating

Meditating or the action of calming the mind although most often conceptualized as a spiritual pursuit is also for every day uses.

By meditating and using specific meditations, one can increase money, strength relationships, decreases in aging, increases in health, or even become more attractive.

One simple way to begin meditating is to wake up fifteen minutes early. By setting the alarm and getting up to begin the practice of meditating is one of the best...