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Instead of meditating, you should exercise without headphones on. You get more benefit for the time spent.
I've found that listening to Binaural Beats ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats ) helps me during meditation. Often its hard for me to focus on the breath for some reason but directing my attention to the tones of whatever "beats" I'm listening to seems to be easier. It may help that "7 Hz frequencies were found to enhance meditative focus..." (Sample size of 8 people so, you know; caveat emptor) I use a ni…
It was designed to run on the Palm V back in 2004 though so I might've been a bit ahead of my time back. It might make a nice little SoLoMo app today though ;)
"The result of having all these unhealthy thoughts come into your mind while you meditate," I would hesitate to call these thoughts unhealthy, on the contrary they are completely natural and harmless. It is our reaction to those thoughts that can be unhealthy.
There is one reason that I can think of for why they would be classified as unhealthy - they distract you from what is happening right now and, as a result, you might miss something important. Multitasking is widely recognised as being a counter-productive activity. Do one thing at a time, with your full attention, and you will excel. Do many things at once and you will do all of them badly. Or one could say that mul…