The Top Meditation Misunderstandings

Learning Meditation is a Valuable Life SkillMeditation is growing increasingly in popularity for reason raging from stress relief to the pursuit of enlightenment. None the less there are still many misunderstandings about what meditation is and how it is done. Here the eight most common misunderstandings are clarified.

Misunderstanding #1 Meditation is stopping thinking and having a blank mind.

This is probably the number one misunderstanding about meditation - that meditation is to "stop thinking." Certainly, a benefit of long term meditation is a reduction in the the amount of thinking that goes on, and that is great. The inane, repetitive and usually negative chatter of thoughts that jump one to another in their minds is one of the first things people new to meditation are confronted by. (More)

Source: The Examiner