Buddhist meditation techniques are used for the result of quieting the over-active mind. We understand the levels upon which people function such as the physical, intuitive, intellectual, or emotional. At any given time, we are drawing from one or several levels at the same moment, and probably without knowing which state is motivating our thoughts or actions.

Within this busy state we also have the hard-to-control and mischievous mind doing the work of investigation, goading, teasing, remembering and projecting.

Buddhist meditation techniques are tools that are used to focus the attention on quieting oneself sufficient to feel the vastness within which one exists. This vastness, along with the tiniest atom in your body, are one and the same.

The sensation of universal vastness and atom-sized smallness can be experienced in meditation. When one looks for it, one will never know it. Meditation is a process to wash away the individual grasping and ownership, sufficient to experience the Oneness.

Chanting is a well-known technique that can hold the mind to attention in order detect the Oneness. The well-known Om Mani Padme Hum, often understood by Westerners as a translation into The Jewel is in the Lotus, may be a chant to use to focus the mind.

Watching the breath can be very effective. One can manipulate the breath and inhale or exhale in pattern to further employ the mind and maintaining the attention that is required. One doesn’t want the mind to be busy, one wants the mind to be attentive.

Another Buddhist meditation technique that is effective is to quiet the mind. With practice, one will become aware of when the mind is calming. When this state has been reached, be aware of your presence within the room you sit, then expand this awareness to your house, then your street, then your town, then your county, then state, that country, then Earth, then Galaxy, then Universe, and just keep going.

The time will be well invested in opening the possibilities of reality.

Merkaba meditation is a meditation technique of controlled breathing consisting of eighteen steps. Merkaba means light, spirit and body or the body and spirit wrapped in light. Merkaba is a counter rotating field of light generated by two interposed tetrahedrons. Imagine a three dimensional Star of David. Learning to access your Merkaba can help you achieve greater peace within your self along with achieving a higher plane of existence and the ability to communicate with those that have reached Enlightenment and Transcendence.

The Merkaba meditation will allow you to realign the geometric crystal energy field that is supposed to rotate around you at the speed of light providing you with the ability to align your heart, mind and body together for the greatest results. Most of us have had their energy fields greatly depleted through lack of knowledge and use. By taking a Flower of Life meditation course you will come to know the geometric fields (star tetrahedron), and actually feel them around your body. These fields can be activated through our own breathing.

Using the Merkaba will enable you to reach your Higher Self and experience Divine Love which will allow you to make full use of the energy fields in every day life. There are seventeen steps to the Flower of Life Merkaba course. Each of the seventeen breaths has a different mudra (hand position) and meditation you must hold in your mind. For example, during breath one (inhalation) you are instructed to lightly hold your index finger and thumb together while not touching the other fingers to anything and having your palms up. While doing this you are to open your hear to love for all life and be aware of the male tetrahedron. There are similar instructions for the remaining sixteen breaths. To fully appreciate and learn Merkaba meditation you need the services of a trained facilitator.

Chakra Balancing Meditation is designed to focus on your seven energy centers to focus and balance them to remove any blockages that are causing issues with your health. I will detail the actual meditation steps in the Reiki way to open and clear your energy centers. This will balance your higher frequency energy and help to release any negative energy from your body.

Designate a place in your home where you will be completely undisturbed for at least 30 minutes at any time. Sit in a comfortable chair and close your eyes while focusing on regulating your breathing in a rhythmic way. Begin your chakra balancing meditation by starting with the first chakra. Your first focus will be on your base chakra or Root – visualize a RED clockwise spinning ball. Concentrate on breathing in red and breathing out red for two to three minutes. You want to see the energy flowing from the spinning red ball down through your legs into the earth (grounding you).

The second chakra is the Sacral chakra. Envision an orange ball spinning clockwise as well and breathe orange in and out for two to three minutes. The third chakra is the Solar Plexus designated by a bright yellow clockwise spinning ball again spending two to three minutes breathing yellow.

The fourth chakra is the Heart chakra. Use the image of a bright green ball spinning clockwise while breathing green rhythmically for the aforementioned time span. The fifth chakra is the Throat chakra – imagine a bright blue ball spinning clockwise again and breathing regularly for the two to three minute span. Make sure you are seeing the blue ball’s energy entering at the Throat chakra and flowing out each arm.

The sixth chakra is the Third Eye chakra. This will utilize an indigo ball spinning clockwise as your focus. Your brow is the focus for the two to three minutes you are breathing the indigo energy in and out. The final chakra is the Crown chakra with a violet clockwise spinning ball focusing your attention to create an image of a violet lotus blooming on your Crown chakra.