Psy_201_Week_2_Assignment

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): | | | | |http://meditationforbeginners.net/ |http://meditation.org.au/class1.asp | | | | | | |This site explained meditation through forms of positions to put our |This site walks the reader through three steps starting at the superficial, scatter mind | | |bodies into. These positions are to help the body and mind. |then travels to the virtue of our hearts concentration into deeper, analytical thinking. | |Summary of resource: | |The third step arrives at entering our intuitive state or revelation. | | |Most of the meditation positions optimize blood flow and relieve muscle |I can use meditation to train the body and mind. We can all concentrate past the | | |stress throughout the body. |superficial to the analytical mind and learn and practice as efficiently as possible. | | | | | |Two interesting |Health practitioners recommend meditation to treat stress-related |There is power in music. Music that is soft and peaceful can help enhance a meditation | |Facts: |illnesses such as insomnia, anxiety, and trauma. |session. | | | | | | |It may sound funny because I did not know what to expect but I felt only |This was not like my first experience gathered from the first website. I tried the | | |more relaxed after the exercises than before them. |techniques here but failed to grasp anything new. I had a hard time this week concentrating| |What happened after you | |and really being able to get the focus I needed to make this method helpful. I saved the | |tried each technique' | |webpage and will revisit it a few times in the upcoming week in attempt to get results | | | |similar to those that have also tried this method. | 1. Do you think meditation leads to heightened sensation and perception' Explain why or why not. Yes and no. I could see sensation being heightened because of the relaxed state you are in. It seems easier for sensory organs to respond quicker when in this state. I think perception would be opposite. I think this because of the concentration level your brain is in may assist your psychological sensory organs to perceive things differently than they would in your alert state. 2. Have you considered integrating meditation into your own lifestyle' If so, list one strategy for fitting meditation into your schedule. If not, explain why. Both of the exercises I found this week definitely make me want to experiment a little with meditation. I do not feel comfortable sharing which they are but I think these techniques may be able to enhance a few areas in my life that could use some help.