I used to study a Japanese martial arts and meditation was always part of the training.

Based on observation, meditation gets you relaxed and your mind all clear when your body is throbbing in pain from all of that practice and impact training. Some karate styles involve punching and kicking each other several times to condition your body from blows.

Maybe you might want to try some knuckle push ups and duck walks before you meditate. A comfortable level of muscle soreness appears to help in meditation.

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Well I lift weights and I do pushups. I kind of overdid it yesterday though, soooo I'll have to wait to recover until tomorrow to start up again...

I dont have a long bar, soooo I can only use my dumbbells. I need to get a bench and a long bar already. Thats the only way I'm going to get my body completely toned and looking great for beach season 2014!!!

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The reason why meditation works is because of the breathing rhythm and different breathing patterns. When you breath, you take in oxygen and shoot out carbon compounds from all of that metabolism. Oxygen feeds your brain and does a lot of things for your body.

Blood circulates oxygen. The leg muscles are known as the second heart for a reason. Your blood circulates outward from your heart towards your extremities to supply your body parts and brain with oxygen which makes you feel relaxed and then your leg muscles pump those stale blood right back up to your lungs and then to your heart to replenish the spent oxygen.

If you're only exercising your limbs, then I think your problem is right about here. Do a one hundred step duck walk after 100 push ups and then meditate. Let us know if that fixes your problem.

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Whats a duck walk?

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Get some knee pads.

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Yea man, I am definitely going to try duckwalking eventually. Thank you for the tip Hellhound.

An update: I download all of the audio from OmHarmonics. It's $100+ meditation program that uses bin-aural beat audio technology. The best part is that the program comes with 15 minute session and 30 minute sessions, so it really helps me fit my schedule. I usually get 30 minutes of meditation in every day either way though.

I had an epiphany the other night while meditating. We hear things all the time through out our lives, but we have these mental filters that can block out quite a bit of useful information from time to time. It occurred to me, mid meditation, that I really should not be so much in my own head so often, and that I should enjoy my life much more often in a day to day fashion. We can only live in the present. We will only ever be able to live in the present. The past is gone and never coming back, and we will never see the future, because there really isnt any. Tomorrow turns into today quite literally in the blink of eye. (As soon as you wake up in bed)

I am going to continue my meditation practice with diligence. I am also going to try to not always use the audio meditation tracks as well. I very much enjoy them, but I think that I should try to meditate at least one time a day without them, so that I don't lose the hang of it naturally. I will combine the audio tracks with the traditional practice.

The traditional, "Om" seems to give me some trouble, as I often can't resist the urge to say other things following it after verbalizing it in my thoughts. "I" on the inhale, followed by "Am" on the exhale, seems like it would be more suitable for me. I am of course talking about employing this strategy when NOT using the audio programs.

When using the audios, I just inhale through my nose and imagine the red, and then exhale through my mouth and in-vision the black leaving my body to the sounds of the music. Focusing on my breathing.

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DeathShredder23,

You should try Kundalini meditation. The best way to do this meditation is you have to find a good Guru to open your Third Eye.

In my experience, Kundalini meditation helps me to relax, focus and concentrate so much more better.