finally....my personal essay

Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela
Ministerio de Educación Superior
Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador
Instituto Pedagógico Rafael Alberto Escobar Lara

MEDITATION: A DIFERENT VIEW OF LIVING

Sometimes life is full of problems, responsibilities, stressful situations and people is also worried about money, appearance, clothes, shoes and things related to a physical life; Besides, emotional reactions and anxiety. As a result mind and body can not tolerate everything at the same time; and people tend to be irritated, intolerant and uncomfortable with themselves. Meditation helps people to improve their lifestyle, also emotional cultivation and even imagination.

Meditation is defined “As a self-directed practice for relaxing the body and calming the mind. Most meditative techniques have come to the West from Eastern religious practices, particularly India, China, and Japan, but can be found in all cultures of the world. Until recently, the primary purpose of meditation has been religious, although its health benefits have long been recognized. It is now being further explored as a way of reducing stress on both mind and body” (http://www.medterms.com).
Exist lots of meditation’s techniques but the most known are the Buddhist meditation, transcendental meditation, the Tao meditation and the vipassana meditation. Also breathing is a different kind of meditation, but, the most popular are the Buddhist meditation and the transcendental meditation; both are different in definition but the same in purpose “make people felling good as they are and live in a very simplistic way in order to get to their inner being and also their own awareness, through the develop of their spirituals faculties, their imagination, feelings and emotional cultivation and also a creative imagination.

In fact, the transcendental meditations is based on a very natural and simplify style of relaxation, and its methods consist on being comfortably sitting and eyed close, during 15/20 minutes twice a day, people usually use music, sounds and smells that remind them an specific place as a beach, a forest, a river, or a place that they find relaxing. Even when this kind of meditation doesn’t belong to a religion or a philosophy, have neither a code nor values produce in people who practice it, a significant reduction of the consume of tobacco and another drugs, less anxiety, creative and clears thoughts, lots of energy and a happier state of mind.

In the other hand, the Buddhist meditation is focus on the religion and the spiritual develop of the believers in contradiction with the transcendental meditation, the Buddhist meditation is practiced in a total silence. Getting into a world of self-control and contemplation. In Buddhism feelings doesn’t happens as a normal thing; people cultivates it, are habits, so that means that people feels what they want to feel. Buddhist meditation offers a religious meditation giving people the option to discover and express contently the emotions, and restricted feelings by learning the art of meditating. What Buddha taught was just an art of living in peace with the nature and the inner being.

As a conclusion; meditation can be a religious practice or just an exercise for being unstressed but the final object of both positions is making people find the peace and release the problems improving the lifestyle producing an excellent result as an unstressed life and emotional cultivation.

Nasha Rengifo