Meditation Worksheet

Associate Level Material

Appendix A

Meditation Worksheet

Directions: Locate two resources on the Internet that explain meditation techniques. Copy and paste the web address into the top of the matrix. After reviewing the website, provide a brief summary for each source. Below your summary, list two interesting facts you learned from each site. Try the techniques you located in your Internet search. Provide a brief description of what happened in your experience.

Be sure to answer the two questions below the matrix also.

Web Address (URL): www.increasebrainpower.com www.freemeditations.com

Summary of resource: This resource tells you how to breathe to reduce stress within your life. There is a step by step process that shows you how to meditate. This site has a wide variety of meditations. It tells us that the best way to change is to change on the way that we think. To think positive and not negative. The key to meditation is to be patient.

Two interesting

Facts: 1. Listening to meditation music can help you meditate.

2. You can teach yourself to release tension within yourself. Just by relaxing and tensing up those muscles and then let it go.

1. Meditation is a form of stress management.

2. There is link to a heart centered meditation. Basically telling you to forget about everything around you and start focusing on your meditation.

What happened after you tried each technique? This was a little hard for me because I do not have a quiet place within my house. Once I did get that alone time and quietness. I tried out this meditation. It was okay but I think that if I were more focused on the meditation that it would have worked out to the fullest. All I really need to do is focus more. After viewing all the meditations that were on the site, I have tried the love all meditation. I thought that for a moment that this is crazy and it will not work at all. It was a little different but I think that it worked. I became a lot more peaceful and felt that I was full of love.

1. Do you think meditation leads to heightened sensation and perception? Explain why or why not.

No, I do not believe that it does because I think that it just relaxes you into state of mind to where you are able to release all stresses.

2. Have you considered integrating meditation into your own lifestyle? If so, list one strategy for fitting meditation into your schedule. If not, explain