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Meditation has become a very popular means of bringing about inner peace and happiness. With a growing reputation across the world, many people now understand and recognize the multitude of benefits that meditation offers and are eager on learning and practicing it.

However one should understand that meditation is a strict discipline of the mind that requires a life long commitment. Learning the art of meditation is not easy and cannot be mastered overnight. It takes constant practice and discipline, but most importantly it takes the guidance of an expert teacher or guru to teach the ways and methods of practicing it.

The number of meditation schools has increased exponentially over the years to meet the growing demands of people looking to find inner peace and happiness. Meditation schools differ because of the different practices or teachings that they follow or a based on. Some follow the Buddhist way of meditation while others follow the Zen way of meditation and yet others that follow the numerous other disciplines available in meditation.

Given below are the names of few of these schools and an explanation of the technique they follow.

School of Meditation This meditation school teaches a technique that is simple and involves no attention to physical postures, chanting or complex mental procedures. Its simplicity makes it easy to follow for almost anyone.

The core of their technique is Mantra, a sound that you repeat silently to yourself; this facilitates a harmonious union of the body, mind and spirit. The method is practiced twice a day and can be done while sitting in a chair in a quiet place.

The School is run by the very people who are its members. It is a non-profit institution registered under the name of The Society for Spiritual Development. The school is based in London with franchises in Barn staple, Basingstoke, Boston, Bournemount, Chelmsford, Leeds, Salisbury, Sheffield, Stroud and Winchester. Their international centers are located in Holland, Amsterdam, Paris and Greece.

Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School The Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School is the name of a group of teachers, who run several independent schools in Scandinavia and Germany. The School is free from any commercial, political or religious interest. The Danish yogi Swami Janakananda founded the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School in Copenhagen in 1970 as a non-profit organization. A very important element in the school is the deep-going yoga teacher education, which begins with the 3-Month Course at Håå Course Center in southern Sweden, and continues as a process, to give you a solid personal experience of yoga and meditation.

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment This meditation school is based on the teachings of Ramtha, an ancient warrior, conqueror who lived 35,000 years ago. Remnants of his life and teachings exist in various archaeological artifacts found in India and Egypt, as well as in ancient Hindu literature.

The four cornerstones of Ramtha's teachings are: The statement "You are God"; the directive to make known the unknown; the concept that consciousness and energy create the nature of reality; the challenge to conquer yourself. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment has students from all over the world and all walks of life. Age is no bar to learning this form of meditation. In fact some of its students range from the ages of six to those well into the twilight of their life.

These are just some of the meditation schools that a person interested in learning deep meditation can choose from. Most meditation practices are similar in their goals and benefits; the focus should be on choosing a style of meditation that suits you the best.

The five senses can meditate to improve its capacity and make human more sensitive to environments. Human has five senses like nose, eyes, ear, tongue, and skin. All sense tools can meditate to improve their capability except tongue. But, actually, tongue can train with feel food and other smell into mouth slowly and patiently when we consume anything. This article will discuss how nose meditation conducts to improve our sense of smell. What benefit with this meditation? I will write nose and ear meditation only in this ezine website.

Nose meditation is extension mediation of dragon meditation (DM). This is can improve your smell capability although your nose will not like dog nose sense capability. The benefits from this nose meditation are: (1) improve your smell capability; (2) you will able to smell very long distance (3) Your nose will healthier.

Steps to conduct nose meditation are

[1] You must train DM or another meditation before you try this meditation. If you are beginner in meditation, then you will feel very hard to do this.

[2] Take sit position like you want. Any position can take for this meditation.

[3] Wear light cloth and place in good room without hard light and hard smell.

[4] Arrange your breath very loose like sleeping people. Feel your hand. Next, feel your meditation after much time.

[5] After your meditation in stable condition, feel your nose, feel your nose smell something in very long place.

[6] Do not think what you smell with your nose. Your feel will guide self of your nose. In this case, you do not know where you smell something because your feel guide you.

[7] Keep feel to your nose. You will smell something automatically.

[8] You are not know what you smell it. But, if you keep to smell it and keep concentration in mediation then you will know where location of smell.

[9] To prove it, visit location that you know from your meditation. Usually, you will get this smell and you will know what it is.

After you get good training in this meditation, of course you will have smell capability with highest sensitivity. You will become on guard people everyday because of this. Moreover, if you are train other your senses regularly.

If you are a police, detective, emergency team, fire brigade, etc then this capability will help you to find something in your tasks. For more information please read my e-book in my website. I hope this is helping you to improve your live quality. Thank you []

There are ten distinct benchmarks that indicate our progress, or lack of progress in our practice. These benchmarks also point toward our destiny in the next world.

The first benchmark is knowing for certain that this fabricated personality of ours will not survive death. This we come to understand when we can see the personality for what it is, an invention based merely on thought and memory, a purely material entity that can't survive physical death.

The second is recognizing the futility of relying on religious rituals, beliefs, or dogma to extricate us from our predicament here on earth, instead of hard work of self inquiry.

The third benchmark is when we no longer have any doubt whatsoever that meditation and self inquiry can free us, not only from physical existence, but from existence itself.

When these three very important benchmarks are reached, and we can't reach them by thinking that we have reached them but rather after a definite shift in consciousness occurs where we in many ways become a different person and see things in a completely different light, then we will be reborn back into physical existence a maximum of only seven times.

The fourth and fifth benchmarks are a bit unusual in that merely weakening them propels us into a different destiny than conquering them completely. If we weaken them, we only have to be reborn into physical existence and all its complications one more time. When we conquer these two benchmarks completely, then we will no longer be reborn into physical existence at all.

The fourth and fifth benchmarks are anger and sensory desires, which must be first weakened. This is where we still retain some sense of aggravation and annoyance, and also mild desires for pleasurable things appearing in existence. Then, after they are weakened considerably, and with a deepening self inquiry, they are abandoned completely. Now we have no underlying fear that is the root of anger, and no desires for sensual pleasures, We simply eat when it is time to eat, sleep when it is time to sleep, and work when we need to work.

By conquering these first five benchmarks, we become a sage in the eyes of the world, however, in order to become that which no man or woman can comprehend, and go where no man or woman can imagine — beyond existence both in the world of form and the world of none-form, we must conquer the five remaining bench marks.

These five that remain are the residual desires left over after we believe that we have conquered all of our material desires, and they are quite insidious. The five final benchmarks are; wanting to be reborn into the world of form, wanting to be reborn into the formless realm, spiritual restlessness (still searching), pride or self-righteousness (I know), and finally an enduring belief in an eternal self.

These last five are most difficult to conquer because the one struggling to attain them must disappear completely yet somehow remain and function in the world – this is the only way that they can be overcome.

And in order for this to occur, one must be completely enlightened.

I was reading my e-mail this morning and saw my baby sister had sent me a cryptic little message that said… If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be? I couldn't figure out, for the life of me, why she would send such a message. I had begun to wonder if she might have too much time on her hands and this closes the case for me.

My little sister graduated from college a month ago and has decided she wants to take a year off to see the world before starting her career as a trial lawyer. I am against this idea and told her so, but she has never been one for taking advice. As I click on the reply button to respond to her message, I stop and realize, I don't have an answer to the question. I hit the cancel button instead and read other e-mails awaiting me.

I look at my calendar and sigh - this is going to be a long day. I have a 7:30 appointment with the other partners in my law firm and then, at 9:00, I have to be at a pre-trail hearing for a client we are defending. When I get out of the pre-trial, I have four depositions to take that ought to last about four hours. Then I have to run across town to be at a 4:00 meeting with the district attorney. At 6:00 I am meeting Kate and Bill for drinks and to go over the details of the Harvey case. Finally, I need to work this evening on my opening statement for the case I am representing tomorrow morning.

It is only 7:15 a.m. and I am overwhelmed. I know how to can calm my nerves though. I pull out a pack of cigarettes and relish the rush that comes over me as I inhale the smoke deep into my lungs. I know smoking isn't good for me but I deserve a few vices given the speed and complexity of my life. I am a bit worried about the number of cigarettes it takes a day to calm my nerves and I am going to back off of them just as soon as the big double murder case is wrapped up.

I think back to my sister's e-mail and remember how proud I am of her. I raised her after our parents were killed in a plane crash when I was 25 and she was 10. I am glad I had finished law school and was practicing when I started raising her.

I look at the clock and realize this daydreaming has to stop. My meeting with the Partners is about to begin down the hall. I put out the rest of my cigarette and wish I had done less daydreaming and more puffing. I hadn't taken in enough nicotine to get me through the Partner meeting without getting jittery.

The meeting is over and I am off to my pre-trail hearing. I am grateful the Partner meeting was short today because I needed another cigarette. As I walk to the courthouse I am able to get three cigarettes smoked and once again, I am calm and collected. I am about a block away from my destination when my sister's question popped back up in my mind. What did she do, place a spell on the e-mail to make it so hard to shake?

I am at the courthouse now and I am feeling pretty good with all of the nicotine I put into my blood stream on the walk. The pre-trail hearing is a perfunctory part of the law and it will not take long. The defense attorney will present his position and I will present the our client's position and will all wait to see what the judge decides.

That was pretty easy. The judge released my client on bail and set the trial for three weeks from today. This is plenty of time to put together the case. What I need to think about now is picking up a bite to eat and getting to the location where the depositions are being taken.

I run into one of my favorite little restaurants and order the regular which means a chicken Caesar salad and two double martinis. I have had three more cigarettes since leaving the courthouse and now the martinis will settle the nerves even better.

Lunch is over and I am back in the car driving to take depositions. I ordered one more martini for the road, but drank it before leaving the restaurant. I never drink and drive. I am also having my after lunch cigarette and enjoying it immensely. There is something about a cigarette right after lunch. It is the best.

Whew, that was difficult! Depositions are usually rather boring but I think these today will really help my client's case. I am going to burn the midnight oil following up on a few things. I think my client will be happy to hear what I learned.

Oops, it's time to meet Bill and Kate for drinks and I am just about on time. I want to finish my cigarette before I go into the bar. I don't know why I am so concerned that people will think I smoke too much. I am a big girl.

Drinks with Bill and Kate went well. We got a lot of good planning done for our hearing tomorrow and, I can get the material ready, later this evening, for tomorrow's hearing. I wonder if I may have had one too many cocktails tonight with Bill and Kate? I think I might have had some trouble keeping the facts of the case straight. Boy, I hate it when I let people see me being weak. Got to work on that!

This shower feels great! What a night. Getting to bed at 2:30 a.m. is starting to become a habit. I need to think about the sanity of this. I had my morning wake-up cigarette and it helped me get my feet out of bed and into the shower, My after shower cigarette is helping me get my feet into my shoes and off to work. I need to remember to stop and buy another carton of cigarettes, my stash is getting low.

I look at my car clock and see it is 6:00 a.m., as I pull into the parking lot of the law firm. I have a couple of hours to finish getting ready for the day. When I get to my office I see my computer is flashing I have new mail. I open up my mail service and see my sister has sent me another e-mail. This one says, if I could change one thing about your life, it would be your addiction to cigarettes and alcohol.

Whoa! This knocked the wind out of me. What did she mean my addiction? I am not addicted to cigarettes. Sure I may smoke more than is good for me but I can quit any time. And how dare she say I am an alcoholic! What has gotten into her? Just then my phone rang and it was my sister. She had her e-mail set to let her know when I had read her message.

"Sister, we need to talk," is how she said hello.

I said, "I don't think I have anything I need to say to you sister!"

"Oh, yes we do and I am driving up to see you after work today."

"I have to work late and will not be available to talk with you, so please don't waste your time driving here."

"I have all the time in the world sis, so I will wait until you are done working. I'll see you around 7:00ish"

Just like that she hung up and I was listening to a dial tone. The nerve of her! Who does she think she is? How the heck does she think she knows what I do? I sit at my desk and think about what just happened. I light up another cigarette and draw the smoke into my lungs. The rush of nicotine starts to fill me with calm.

I go to the small refrigerator in my office and take out a bottle of orange juice and take it to my desk. I pull open a side drawer and retrieve a bottle of vodka. This morning is a screwdriver kind of morning, I say to myself, and empty the glass.

I am going to have to really concentrate today. I am running on only a few hours sleep and the thought of my sister coming is a bit unsettling. I throw myself into getting things done all day long and ready myself for the confrontation with my sister. She is as good as her word. She is at my office door at 7:00 p.m. and I am not ready for her. I am scared.

"Hey sis, how's it going," I say.

"Oh, I'm good, how about you?"

"I could have been better if I hadn't read your e-mail and talked with you on the phone."

"Yeah, I know that was hard but to get right to the point, sis, you have an alcohol and nicotine problem and I want you to get help."

"You have always been a direct kind of gal haven't you?"

"I learned it is better to get to the point of things so you can get moving."

"And just how did you come up with your deductions that I have these addictions?"

"I did what you taught me to do, looked for evidence and found what tells me this is an open and shut case."

"This sounds like I have been tried and convicted without having representation or any awareness of the evidence."

"Yes, it might feel that way to you, but let me tell you what my evidence is. Your fingernails have a pale bluing or grayness to them which tells me you are smoking enough to interfere with the oxygen in your blood stream. Your hands also shake and this has been getting worse over the past six months."

"If this is the best you have then you have to know it is pretty shoddy evidence. Have you ruled out that the change in color of my fingernails might be due to some other medical condition just as the tremors in my hands could be medically related too?"

"You are right, it is shoddy evidence. But, since you have agreed these symptoms do exist and you raised the question they might be related to medical conditions, then you would surely agree that getting a complete physical is in order - wouldn't you?"

"I suppose I do need a physical and I will get one just as soon as my calendar has an opening. Now is this the end of your silly suspicion that I have an addiction problem?"

"Actually, no sis, it isn't. I thought you would use a full calendar so I made arrangements with your boss to give you medical leave for two weeks to check out the reason for your symptoms."

"You did what?" The nerve of you! There is no way I will take two weeks off for any reason, let alone this trumped up idea that I am an alcoholic."

"You have no choice sis, your boss is worried about you too and says you have to take the leave."

I am so shocked I have to sit down in my chair. How has my life gotten so out of whack in the matter of a five minute conversation? "How do you know my boss is worried?"

"He called me a couple of weeks back and asked if I would talk to you. He said your work is stellar and that is not the reason for his concern. He has noticed how uptight you are and how, when you leave the room, you come back mellow. He doesn't know what you are on but he knows it is something. He doesn't want you to go so far into whatever you are doing that you ruin your reputation and life. He didn't want to bring this up with you because he knew you would be mortified."

"How many other people think I am addicted to something?"

"He doesn't think anyone else has started to suspect, but he thinks it won't be long so you need to get help right now."

I am still stunned. I need a cigarette and a drink so bad my head is spinning and I feel like I might throw up. I sit in my chair for what seems like an eternity and when I look up I see my little sister looking at me with such love that I start to cry. I cry hard for a long time and she holds me until I am drained.

"Where am I going?'

"To a meditation center for a two week retreat," said my sis.

"Not a drug and alcohol treatment facility, I say?"

"No, not yet, my sis says. I have been doing research into addictions and meditation and I think there is a good chance you can get yours under control through meditation." I also think it will give you a life-long strategy or letting peace into your life."

I was going to go to this place as part of my year off before working so, they said I could make reservations for two. It is all set, we leave in the morning. "How are you feeling?"

"I feel ashamed and disgusted that I let it go this long. I want to go with you to the meditation center. I want to learn how to be at peace and live a full life without cigarettes and alcohol. Let's go."

-Time passes – 4 weeks later-

I am back at work and feeling like a new woman. I actually took a month of leave because I wanted to work as hard as I could on increasing my ability to let go of stress by meditating. I was so touched by the process that I spent every waking hour learning and practicing. I loved focusing on my breathing and relaxing into a state of being at peace with myself and the world. I loved how I felt when my session was over. I felt light almost like air.

I had a life altering experience learning to meditate. I learned the value of letting go and going with the flow of peace. I did miss the nicotine and alcohol for the first few days, but as soon as I learned to relax I was able to use this sense of peace to block the cravings.

Meditation saved me from a life of addiction and when I see others using drugs to cope with stress, I am going to turn them onto meditation. It works.