Meditation as a Potential Therapy for Autism

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Please read this excellent article.

I believe that meditation was instrumental in helping me, and it could be helpful for you and any autistic people you may care for.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aurt/2012/835847/

I mediate by laying in my bed and turning off all noises unless it's the radio playing quietly, and I do this before I go to bed too, or sometimes I won't play any music.

Anyways - sometimes my head will go into some sort of energized state, and my eyelids will begin fluttering, and I feel
somewhat nauseous but not enough to throw up or anything of the sort, but it happens a couple times
and I get a tingly feeling all over my body.

I meditate on a daily basis for several years now and enjoy it as a means for relaxation. However, that's actually the only effect it has on me.

It's beneficial in general. Why shouldn't that hold true for autistics, too? We certainly have a lot of stress to deal with.

Yes, I recommend it for non autistic people too.

I developed a meditative system for Autists:

http://echoing.neurelitism.com/

Also, motivation. I've misread your topic's title at first, sorry... I'm sure meditation can help a lot.

Meditation has helped me immensely, once I found out how to do it properly. I used to think meditation was something you have to try and do, and that you have to sit in an uncomfortable position and have your eyes closed and burn incense and have your nipples clamped etc. in order to achieve a state of calmness. But it occurred to me that meditation is always there, in the gaps between the thoughts. You can't meditate if you're thinking about not thinking. Life is already meditation, but for some reason people strive to decorate it with rubbish.

For people who do not find the meditative system I developed to be helpful, I put together a short list of some other methods:

http://links.religionsnet.com/recommendedpractices.html

There is meditation, and there is meditation

10 days without speaking, surrounded by 100-200 [absolutely] gorgeous backpackers from all round the world, sitting for 7 hours each day, walking meditation for 4 hours per day.......................................

Yesterday sitting on my surfboard as perfectly clean, ruler edge, ocean swells rolled under us, the group of 20 or so, lifted 3-4 meters skyward as each swell passed under, the bigger swells breaking on top of the madly scrambling enthusiastic young crew.....

Without dharma, and the love of dharma, meditation is like sex without love

hello Moogster!

I managed to condense an instruction into a very short space of words. Thought I might share here. Of course, I'd really like to spend an hour or two or three discussing all the subtleties and intricacies of the thing, but people just don't have that sort of patience.