Mindfulness Meditation vs Concentration Meditation

Our brain is being continuously bombarded by different thoughts and ideas, about 6 000 thoughts a day. And due to this continuous thought processing our brain stays in that agitated, in that hot mode. So, the fundamental idea of meditation is to find a way to protect the brain from processing those thoughts. In this video, we talk about the 2 options for how to make it happen

0:00 - Introduction
0:43 - The fundamental idea of meditation
1:20 - Concentration meditation - blocking those thoughts from entering our brain
1:51 - Mindfulness meditation - letting those thoughts get through without sticking to the brain
2:25 - Comparing these two meditation categories
4:28 - Form vs formless meditation
5:05 - Examples
5:48 - Meditation health benefits
6:55 - Summary

You might be quite surprised to learn that all available, all-known meditation practices can be placed in just these 2 categories - concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation. That's it!

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