Meditations on Meditation. Meditate with Shiva, Ganesh, Skanda, Durga or Surya. Shiva is the Highest Master of the entire yoga, meditation, and tantra system - no one can be greater than Lord Shiva. Meditation (a state of concentrated attention) helps come nearer our Deities. But meditation has also many healing effects and it is widely used by many cultures and religions too.
It usually means that our mind is positioned beyond what is generally viewable. Its origin is definitely in Eastern religions, where it has been practiced for over 5,000 years.
Mantra. Meditation Alters Brain Structure, Functioning. All of the Dalai Lama's guests peered intently at the brain scan projected onto screens at either end of the room, but what different guests they were.
On one side sat five neuroscientists, united in their belief that physical processes in the brain can explain all the wonders of the mind, without appeal to anything spiritual or nonphysical. Facing them sat dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks in burgundy-and-saffron robes, convinced that one round-faced young man in their midst is the reincarnation of one of the Dalai Lama's late teachers, that another is the reincarnation of a 12th-century monk, and that the entity we call "mind" is not, as neuroscience says, just a manifestation of the brain.