Expanding awareness to a number of different physical or mental events that can theoretically be performed during any behavior - being with your experience ina fully participatory way.

Concentration increases...

To get what you're aiming for. If you aim to zone out because life is too crazy it will work. Meditation should be about connecting with your real self.

In meditation - the body can be experienced as patterns of energy that cannot be described neurophysiologically. Can't describe what's happening using Western physiologically

You can only learn this from your teacher. It is advanced meditation technique. Manipulation of breath and energy

1. Meditation - like psychotherapy tends to release unconscious material 2. Reported adverse effects range from depression - anxiety - and dissociation to psychosis 3. There may be other psychological risks as well - such as increase in passivity

Different mode of knowing - sense of natural perfection - dissolution of boundaries - sense of timelessness - spontaneous action

Buddhist meditation involving focus on the breath for long periods of time (before vapissana)

Ey in terms of whether meditation is working or not. People who are satisfied are because their relationships are expanding. They are able to connect with other people.

Center all of your attention and desire on Him and make this the sole concern of your mind and heart; Focus on God and the center of your heart and make it soul object of attention and desire.

A lot of native cultures do it; dance that generates a certain energy