9 Types of Meditation- All types are important. Level of importance vary with the expectation of an individual, at a point being. While pure consciousness also meaning enlightenment, Salvation and Nirvana is a starting point for even higher goals, it is not most important type for worldly wise practical meditation aspirants.

With this in mind, without maintaining an order of least or highest importance or short or long term, I list the 9 steps of progress as types of meditation below-

1. Sitting still in meditation is the most primary of the type, and yet it is the most important and the FIRST of the meditation. The progress of meditation is sequential, one moves up in steps beginning with the smallest step first. Capability to sit still for meditation- sitting on a level place in at least a cross-legged position, if not in Padmasana, is necessary.
2. Ability to generate and…