Associate Level Material
Appendix A

Meditation Worksheet

Directions: Locate two resources on the Internet that explain meditation techniques.

• Enter the name of each website into the matrix, then copy and paste the web address. • After reviewing the website, provide a brief summary for each source. • Below your summary, list two interesting facts you learned from each site. • Try the techniques you located in your Internet search. Provide a brief description of what happened in your experience.

When you are finished filling out the matrix, answer the two questions below.

|Information |Website 1 |Website 2 |
|Website name and |http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-4HbPMwVI |http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/tr... |
|address (URL): | | |
|Summary of the |Giving you really good advice on how to meditate, and how|For this meditation, it’s a good source to use when you |
|resource: |it can help relieve stress or pressure off your body. |have high blood pressure, or your heart races fast. This |
| |Gives a since of calmness over you and just has you relax|is a good technique to use to slow down your body to |
| |to where you’re not so uptight on things. |where you can regain yourself and come back to one piece.|
|Two interesting |That helps relax you, and that it brings a since of |What I find interesting on this, is that this can help |
|facts: |calmness to you. That you can meditate over anything that|you slow down your blood pressure and that it can also |
| |you want and that you don’t have to have a reason to do |help give you a since of calmness to where you’re not |
| |this. |having to think of a million things. Just focus on one |
| | |thing and let the rest go out of your body. |
|What happened after |I felt calmness over me, and that I felt a relief that |I really liked this one, because I could feel that I did |
|you tried each |gave me the chance to get up and get things done. |have peace with myself and that I really didn’t have to |
|technique? |Everything that I had on my mind I was able to let it all|stress myself out too