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poor misguided fabi - here he promotes eastern meditation -

Free Self Meditation Technique | Buddhist Meditation Study

Are you looking for an simple self meditation technique? Do you have difficulty controlling your own thoughts? Want to know how to override the negative influences you face daily? Today’s free podcast episode contains quick instructions on how to meditate.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is a world proponent of Eastern meditation. Roy Masters begins by commenting about the Dalai Lama’s cooperation with a university’s Buddhist meditation study. Can his technique and even Buddhism be dangerous?
Roy then gives brief directions for using his free guided meditation technique, “Be Still and Know.” This example of self meditation for beginners can be practiced anytime and anywhere. Whether you are a beginner or a veteran with meditation, this audio lesson will provide you the means to sharpen your insight and reduce stress.”

Practices yoga too boot - again, a form of eastern meditation.

Face it fabie - doesn’t matter what color lipstick he puts on his method of mediation, it is rooted and grounded in eastern practices.

nice try there...I have never ever known Roy to be affiliated with any Buddhist meditation and you linking it there somehow with no reference to the source is just more of the same that I get from you so called Christians. Why don’t you try being more honest.

Roy often talks about how his Be Still is quite different that the eastern meditation and is actually biblical. That is true, there are no chants and no suppression of thoughts, only the watching of them. Far far different.

This is what the Be Still is...hardly the eastern mantra type...quite the opposite...

MEDITATION
How It Works

Imagine that you have gone to the movie theater and we are sitting together. As the movie begins, you get caught up in the action and, before you know it, you’re living the movie. Lost in the imagery of the movie, you feel the action and react to the excitement of a kiss, a chase, or a fall.

If I hit your arm and you react to me, it breaks the imagery of the movie and you remember that you’re in the theater. Not only is the imagery of the movie broken, so is the emotional bond that held you. The power of the imagery fades away into nothing.

The Be Still & Know exercise works on the same principle. Simply put, it breaks the endless loop of thought sustained by emotional energy. It sets you free from re imagining the trauma again.

Your thoughts rage into a battle, keeping you confused, lost and emotionally charged, and worse yet, causing you to seek escapes (to feel better, e.g., drugs, alcohol, sex, outbursts).

Being aware is effortless. There is nothing to study, nothing to learn. Just be still, aware, and the reoccurring images with their assorted pains wither away.

All you have to do is sit in a straight-backed chair and listen to the exercise. The narrator, Roy Masters, walks you through it.

(As you sit, you’ll become aware of your hand and it’ll tingle just a bit until a thought pulls you away and the tingling stops. It’s a mini-battlefield between being in the Movie [caught up] or the Audience [aware].)

Day-by-day this simple Exercise breaks the shackles of your mind, and you’re no longer reliving the past. As you see it, and watch it, the thought will simply fade away.

Mr. Masters’ exercise delivers results. It is not an escape just to make you feel better. It is designed to set you free; empowered.

Dr. George Hayter, M.D., Psychiatrist and Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, says the Exercise “…is the only program of self-therapy which achieves the desired end-state of therapy; to lessen the dependence on the therapist – the goal is self-awareness.” Also, he says, “It’s the only approach that I have ever seen in the whole field of psychology which allows you to become independent, competent and effective.”