10 Ways to Meditate without Meditating / Blog

Meditation has many definitions, one of which is “focusing on a single object”
1 Cooking – it’s creative, fun and if you turn away from the stove…oops!
2 Knitting – one wrong move with the needle and you no longer have that scarf
3 Gardening – Gardening offers a connection to nature while caring and nurturing for living things.
4 Yoga –often referred to as meditation in motion with a focus on your body and breath.
5 Jogging/walking –I get some of my best ideas while out for a jog.
6 Skiing – My ski friends tell me there is nothing like it!
7 Cleaning house – get rid of clutter in the house, get rid of clutter in the mind.
8 Jigsaw puzzles – I get lost in these…15 minutes quickly turns into 60
9 Drawing, sculpting, ceramics - talk about getting back to your senses
10 Writing

Note
one person’s meditation is other's irritation, Hence Make your Own List
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Seven Bodies

First Layer (The Etheric Body)
This is the closest energy body to the physical. The etheric body extends one quarter to two inches beyond the physical body and pulsates at about 15-20 cycles per minute(Pulsating due . The entire body, including organs, can be perceived but it is made of a bluish (emotional) or gray light (highly active).
Second Layer (The Emotional Body)
it is associated with feelings. It is more fluid in nature, This body is about one to three inches from the physical body. This is more like colored clouds that change color depending on what kind of emotions the person is going through. Love, joy, excitement, and even anger will result in very brilliant hues, whereas confused emotions will result in muddy tones. This body contains all the colors in the rainbow.
Third Layer (The Mental Body)
With an even more subtle composition, the mental body holds our thoughts and mental processes. It extends three to eight inches from the body, and generally has a yellow light, which radiates around the head and shoulders, and extends to the body below. This yellow will brighten if a person is deep in thought, or concentrating on mental activities. Although the color associated with this body is yellow, other colors are evident if there is an emotion associated with the thought (stemming from the emotional body).
Fourth Layer (The Astral level)
This is the true bridge to the spiritual plane! When we start to work with this plane, and above, our perception and abilities leap from the physical to the subtle. Here we will begin to perceive energies that are not of this vibrational frequency ie Beyond ones Body. The body of the astral is composed of gorgeous clouds of color, which extend six inches or one foot from the body.
The Fifth Layer (The Etheric Template Body)
This is called template form for the physical body. This is the template that exists before the physical body is formed. It also extends one and one half to two feet from the body .This template has a dark blue hue to it.
The Sixth Layer (The Celestial Body)
This is the spiritual emotional plane where a person will feel things such as bliss, and spiritual ecstasy. When we reach the place of divine love, interconnectedness (generally through deep meditation) we are touching on this plane, which is felt through our celestial body. The colors of this body are very soft in nature (pastel) and glow softly from the body.
The Seventh Layer (The Ketheric Template or Causal Body)
This is the mental level of the spiritual plane (whereas the celestial body is the emotional level of the spiritual plane). This body contains all the other bodies within it and extends up to three and a half feet from the body,. Its structure is made of a gold, or silvery-gold, and appears as a grid type structure, which is very durable. It pulsates and vibrates at a very high speed and within this level; we "know" we are one with God(We are qualitatively same as lord but Qualitatively different, example given by chitanyamahaprabhu is of Ocean and Drop of it) . This body also contains the main Kundalini (energy of the consciousness) force that runs up and down the body.

108 Benefits of Meditation

Physiological benefits:
1- It lowers oxygen consumption. 
2- It decreases respiratory rate.  
3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.  
4- Increases exercise tolerance.  
5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.  
6- Good for people with high blood pressure.  
7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.  
8- Decreases muscle tension  
9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.  
10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.  
11- Helps in post-operative healing.  
12- Enhances the immune system.  
13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress  
14- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.  
15- Helps with weight loss  
16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage  
17- Higher skin resistance  
18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.  
19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.  
20- Decreases the aging process.  
21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)  
22- prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases  
23- Makes you sweat less  
24- Cure headaches & migraines  
25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning  
26- Reduced Need for Medical Care  
27- Less energy wasted  
28- More inclined to sports, activities  
29- Significant relief from asthma  
30- improved performance in athletic events  
31- Normalizes to your ideal weight  
32- harmonizes our endocrine system  
33- relaxes our nervous system  
34- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity  
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation). 

Psychological benefits:
36- Builds self-confidence. 
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour. 
38- Resolve phobias & fears 
39- Helps control own thoughts 
40- Helps with focus & concentration 
41- Increase creativity 
42- Increased brain wave coherence. 
43- Improved learning ability and memory. 
44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation. 
45- Increased emotional stability. 
46- improved relationships 
47- Mind ages at slower rate 
48- Easier to remove bad habits 
49- Develops intuition 
50- Increased Productivity 
51- Improved relations at home & at work 
52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation 
53- Helps ignore petty issues 
54- Increased ability to solve complex problems 
55- Purifies your character 
56- Develop will power 
57- greater communication between the two brain hemispheres 
58- react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event. 
59- increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance 
60- higher intelligence growth rate 
61- Increased job satisfaction 
62- increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones 
63- decrease in potential mental illness 
64- Better, more sociable behaviour 
65- Less aggressiveness 
66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction 
67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals 
68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation 
69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia 
70- Increases sense of responsibility 
71- Reduces road rage 
72- Decrease in restless thinking 
73- Decreased tendency to worry 
74- Increases listening skills and empathy 
75- Helps make more accurate judgements 
76- Greater tolerance 
77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways 
78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality 
79- Develops emotional maturity 

Spiritual benefits:
80- Helps keep things in perspective81- Provides peace of mind, happiness  
82- Helps you discover your purpose  
83- Increased self-actualization.  
84- Increased compassion  
85- Growing wisdom  
86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others  
87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony  
88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation  
89- Increased acceptance of oneself  
90- helps learn forgiveness  
91- Changes attitude toward life  
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God  
93- Attain enlightenment  
94- greater inner-directedness  
95- Helps living in the present moment  
96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love  
97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego  
98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”  
99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”  
100- Increases the synchronicity in your life 

Other Benefits
101 Meditation is also completely FREE!  
102 It requires no special equipment, 
103 Not complicated to learn. 
104 It can be practiced anywhere,  
105 at any given moment,  
106 Not time consuming (15-20 min. per day is good). 
107 Best of all, meditation has NO negative side effects. Bottom line, there is nothing but positive to be gained from it!  

Benefit of Benefits
108 With such a huge list of benefits, the question you should ask yourself is, “why am I not meditating yet?”