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The basic aim of any kind of meditation is to calm the mind and to reduce the chattering occurring within the meditator. This way the meditator earns several benefits at all the planes: physical, mental, psychological, social and spiritual. A correct type of meditation is a ticket to enlightenment for the practioner. There are many types of meditation techniques. Mantra-based meditation takes the help of a mantra (meaningful or meaningless sound) to achieve the desired results. Om-mantra-based meditation has been found to be highly effective and beneficial out of many types of meditation techniques. Om mantra meditation can be done both in the sitting posture as well as while walking. Each of the two techniques (sitting and walking meditations) has their own benefits. In fact, they complement each other. In this paper, it is suggested that an optimum combination of these two types of meditations will bring enhanced benefits to the meditator.