Different kinds of meditation for different kinds of people

Seating meditation is not for everyone but that is not a problem at all because there are all kinds of meditation for all kinds of people.

There are spiritual meditations, mindfulness meditations, movement meditations, focused meditations, visualization meditations and more.

Spiritual meditations can include prayer. This kind of meditation is about connecting with the divine, and your inner pure light. Even though spiritual meditations can be practiced in a religious context they can also be practiced in a non-religious context. A lot of spiritual meditations incorporate chanting into the practice.

Mindfulness meditations focuses more on paying attention to your mind without judgment. In a mindfulness meditation you have to be completely concentrated in something, it can be an object or an activity and at the same time pay complete attention to your mind. There are some interesting mindfulness exercises like paying full attention to all of your senses. For example take a couple minutes to pay attention to what your surroundings sound like, look like, feel like, analyze how you feel seating in the chair you are seating right now, devote your complete attention to run an analysis of your body and surroundings at this exact moment. Little practices like this can be a good start to start practicing longer mindfulness meditations in the future.

Movement meditation is good for the active people who struggle sitting still. Most kinds of meditation require to stay in one position but not moving meditation. The truth about moving meditation is that it can be any physical activity that you really enjoy because it requires to stay fully present while performing the activity. For a moving meditation you can go on walks, run, play tennis, or swim. In reality any activity that requires you to be present because of the need of using your physical body will work as a moving meditation.

Focused meditation requires you to give your full attention to whatever you are doing in the moment. Fully concentrate on the activity that you are doing right now, and how does this activity makes you feel. You leave everything else out for a lapse of time, and you only think about what you are currently doing. A good way to start this practice is by stop multi-tasking and start doing one thing at the time but fully concentrated on that one thing. For example, when you are eating, just eat, concentrate on how the food tastes, how it makes you feel, and what the experience of eating that meal is like.

Visualization meditation is great for people with a creative imagination. In this kind of meditation you have to imagine specific scenarios like a beautiful beach, a forest, or mountains. Visualizations have a strong impact in our emotions, and they can make you feel peaceful and relaxed. A good example of a visualizing meditation would be: Imagine that your negative thoughts are flying away as you exhale.