Mindfulness Meditation vs Concentration Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation vs Concentration Meditation
Our brain is being continuously bombarded by different thoughts and ideas, about 6 000 thoughts a day. And due to this continuous thought processing our brain stays in that agitated, in that hot mode. So, the fundamental idea of meditation is to find a way to protect the brain from processing those thoughts. In this video, we talk about the 2 options for how to make it happen
0:00 – Introduction
0:43 – The fundamental idea of meditation
1:20 – Concentration meditation – blocking those thoughts from entering our brain
1:51 – Mindfulness meditation – letting those thoughts get through without sticking to the brain
2:25 – Comparing these two meditation categories
4:28 – Form vs formless meditation
5:05 – Examples
5:48 – Meditation health benefits
6:55 – Summary
You might be quite surprised to learn that all available, all-known meditation practices can be placed in just these 2 categories – concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation. That’s it!
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Great video. Love it so much ❤❤❤
Thank you! I will now be more careful about the choice of meditation
Cool tips for the people who just started meditating!
Good video, to the point
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Can you cite some sources for the individual benefits for concentration vs insight? I may be experiencing this very thing and I need to research further.
Thank you for explaining basics in tightly packed manner keeping the essentials of the topic!
You explained everything thing thanks
It was really very excellent
One of the best videos I’ve watched!
Very clear and concise. Thank you!
this was really good timing for me, I just started meditating last week and wanted to learn more about it
Having lived as a Buddhist monk for many years I agreee. There are basically only two different ways of meditating. They can be used in many different techniques and they tend to have different feel and texture. Mindfulness/insight practice is generally softer wider focus whereas concentration meditation is usually more single pointed, harder and narrow to the exclusion of everything else.
Good video and will be sure to help many people!