| Meditation can be practiced in many ways and there | | | | understand and practice. The benefits of this exercise |
| are several meditation exercises available for people | | | | are also visible after a relatively shorter span of time |
| with different objectives. For people who are | | | | when compared with other meditation exercises. This |
| body-oriented, there various physical forms of | | | | type of meditation can be done either by quietly sitting |
| exercise can be used to get in touch with the inner | | | | in a posture or by coupling it with other actions such as |
| self. For the heart-oriented, prayer is considered the | | | | walking and eating. |
| best form of attunement; for the intellect-oriented, | | | | Another type of meditation is the objective kind of |
| meditation is their path to enlightenment. All types of | | | | meditation where the meditators choose any object to |
| meditations follow the same pattern where they begin | | | | look at and then meditate on its origin. Meditators can |
| with transforming the body, then move through the | | | | allow their thoughts to wander to the origin of the |
| heart, next they arrive at the mind and then they go | | | | object, the process of its making and then various |
| beyond. Meditation exercises are designed for | | | | stages involved in bringing the object to its present |
| reducing stress, building self-confidence and | | | | situation. This type of meditation is ideal for beginners |
| self-esteem, and maintaining good health. | | | | as they may find it easier to relate to things that they |
| One of the most popular meditation exercises is the | | | | can see than to something abstract. |
| breathing exercise where the meditators have to | | | | Meditators who may be unsure about the benefits or |
| focus on inhalation and exhalation. The idea here is to | | | | the way of performing meditation exercises can |
| become aware of the gap between inhalation and | | | | consult qualified health professionals, specialists, or |
| exhalation that is present for a fraction of second. | | | | reputed teachers for advice. |
| Breathing meditation is popular as it is easy to | | | | |