Possibly and possibly not. It depends on who you ask is there a one size fits all meditation technique. There was an article in the Huffington Post that talks about the issue. It has some good points and there is another way to look at it also.

Is There A One Size Fits All Meditation Technique?

Researchers from the San Francisco State University Institute for Holistic Health Studies found that not all people prefer the same kind of meditation practices. The study suggests that the best way for someone to actually stick with a meditation practice might be to pick the kind that he or she feels most comfortable with, compared with the trendiest type of the moment.

“If someone is exposed to a particular technique through the media or a healthcare provider, they might assume because it’s popular it’s the best for everyone,” study researcher Adam Burke, professor of health education at SF State and the director of the Institute for Holistic Health Studies, said in a statement.

“But that’s like saying because a pink dress or a blue sport coat is popular this year, it’s going to look good on everybody,” he added. “In truth, different people like different things. One size does not fit all.”

The study, published in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, included 247 people between ages 20 and 56 who were taught four kinds of meditations: Qigong Visualization, Mantra, Zen or Mindfulness. The study participants were taught the meditations over a six-week class, and were asked to try them out on their own and then report back which ones they liked best. Most of the participants didn’t really have any real experience meditating, and those who did reported that mindfulness was their main way of meditating.

By the end of the study period, the top two preferred meditation methods were Mantra and Mindfulness, with 31 percent of study participants reporting preference for each one. Twenty-two percent of people preferred Zen meditation and 14.8 percent of people preferred Qigong meditation.

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There is some very interesting stuff in the article and I got to thinking what if there was a on size fits all meditation technique what would be involved?

Well, people meditation for many different reasons so whatever we came up with would have to incorporate the reasons a person meditated. There are all kind of postures to walking meditations so what we come up with would also want to be able to incorporate any of them.

What’s the one thing in common all meditation techniques have?

Breathing and the breath!

So if we were gonna come up with a one size fits all meditation technique the one thing that all the different meditation forms have in common is the breath and breathing so it seems to make sense that the one size fits all form of meditation would be focus on your breath to the inclusion of all else. Allow your attention to be with the breath in and breath out and keep bring your attention to that.

It would seem from there you are in the present as you don’t breath in the past or the future, only the here and now. And in most sacred text the word for Spirit or Divinity and the word for breath are one and the same.

Breathing is one thing that you do consciously and unconsciously. So bring your focus of attention to your breath connects those two aspects up.

So if we were gonna develop a one size fits all meditation technique it would be nice to be able to do it anywhere and anytime, which you can do with focusing on your breathing.

So do me and you a favor and like, share and tweet this on the in breath and Pin and link  this on the out breath