Thread: Non-religious meditation and the like

Xei, it's pretty simple, practice being vigilant in being aware of as much as you can: preferably the immediate experience of your senses, the feeling of your whole body, and your thoughts/emotions while trying let them give way to the powerful and nonjudgmental awareness of immediate experience. The attempted state may seem a bit contradictory, kind of like a peaceful intensity. You want to have an exited state of intense, vigilant curiosity of what's going on and how you feel, but at the same time have a peaceful, objective watchfulness that welcomes everything non-judgmentally.

Goal-oriented meditations and visualizations are another matter, I've found them to be very enjoyable too. I've read some beginners books on them, you could probably find some easily if that's what our interested in.

Darkmatters reminded me of an awesome book I found on mindfulness (which is probably the most rational approach to the first type of meditation I mentioned that I've seen) called The Mindful Brain The first few chapters utterly blew me away and captured some personal experience better than I could say, but definitely started to get unnecessarily complex and redundant with how many layers of mindfulness there are and whatnot. It could have been interesting but I got all I needed from the real meat in the first several chapters.