If you asked me a number of years ago what I knew about meditation, I would not have much to tell you. I may have responded by saying it was something other people, not me, did to find inner harmony or peace. I did not know then how drastically my perspective on meditation would change. When I started college, I became fascinated with the concept of mindfulness, or “present-moment awareness with acceptance” (Warren & Farley, n.d., para. 2). I felt that when I tried to be mindful, the world seemed a little more beautiful to me. A few years later, I learned that meditation was simply a formal practice of mindfulness (Warren & Farley, n.d.), and, since then, meditation has ceased to be a completely foreign concept to me.
Today, I will share some forms of meditation and the benefits behind them.