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- Open Awareness - A meditation style of non-focused attention, allowing whatever arises to come and go freely.
- Makyou - Illusory or distracting experiences that arise during meditation, considered obstacles on the path to enlightenment.
- Transcendental Meditation - Mantra-based meditation technique practiced 20 minutes twice daily to access deep rest and reduce stress.
- Gratitude Meditation - Meditation practices focused on cultivating feelings of appreciation and thankfulness.
- Five Hindrances - Five mental states in Buddhist psychology that obstruct meditation and spiritual progress.
- Attention Training - Practices designed to improve attentional capacity, control, and flexibility.
- Body Scan Meditation - A mindfulness practice of systematically directing attention through body parts to develop awareness.
- Loving-Kindness Meditation - Metta practice cultivating compassion and goodwill toward yourself and others.
- Laya - A meditative state of mental absorption, dissolution, or deep relaxation where thoughts temporarily cease.
- Open Monitoring Meditation - Meditation practice of non-reactive awareness of all experiences without focusing on any particular object.
- Focused Attention Meditation - Meditation practice concentrating on a single object, typically the breath.
- Anchor Attention - Using a stable object like the breath to steady and ground a wandering mind.
- Premeditatio Malorum - The Stoic practice of negative visualization - imagining worst-case scenarios to build resilience.
- Yoga Nidra - Guided meditation practice inducing conscious deep relaxation while maintaining awareness between waking and sleeping states.
- Walking Meditation - Mindfulness practice combining slow, deliberate walking with present-moment awareness of bodily sensations and movement.
- Noting Practice - Mentally labeling experiences as they arise to maintain awareness and prevent getting lost in thought.
- Monkey Mind - The Buddhist term for an unsettled, restless mind that jumps from thought to thought like a monkey in trees.
- Samadhi - A state of profound meditative concentration where the mind becomes completely absorbed in its object of focus.
- Zazen - The seated meditation practice that forms the core of Zen Buddhist training.
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