There are some similarities among many different disciplines and religions when it comes to meditation.
This holds true in many aspects of practicing meditation, from learning how to breathe properly, proper posture, when to meditate, choosing the correct place, planning your meditation and understanding our thoughts and emotions.
All these points are important but don’t worry too much about any one thing when you are just beginning to learn how to meditate. Before you can start to unwrap the many years of programming you will need to create within yourself a great desire and sense of urgency to want to change. It is necessary that you learn how to meditate the right way to get the most from your meditation experience.
Choose Your Environment
When you are beginning to meditate it is important to find a place that is quiet, free from clutter and comfortable. You should choose a room in your home that fits this criterion as long as the room gives you a good feeling and is secluded enough to allow you to spend at least twenty minutes uninterrupted. The spot you choose will start to absorb the energy you create during your meditations so if at first you don’t have a perfect spot don’t worry you will be programing the area you choose. Very soon you will be able to reach much deeper meditative states and your meditation area will continue to absorb and manifest your energy
When Should You Meditate
Try to develop a routine and a consistent time that you meditate every day. The morning is a great time to meditate, before you have been inundated with your daily routine. Our daily responsibilities put us under a lot of stress and the demands make it harder for us to have a good meditation when we try to sit and relax. Be consistent with yourdaily morning meditation and you will notice that your day will unfold in a much different joyful way.
Choose Your Meditation Plan
Planning your meditation is important when you begin learning how to meditate. To have a productive meditation it is a good idea to be in the right frame of mind. Don’t meditate as soon as you come home from a hard day because you will wind up spending too much time trying to relax your mind and body. Your meditation would be more productive if you went for a walk to help you relax first. Taking a short cool shower is a good way to help wake you up if you are tired. It is very important to approach your meditations with the best mindset and will help you gain the most out of your meditations.
Posture
The best position is to be seated with a straight back. You can either sit on the floor or in a chair, which ever you feel more comfortable in. Imagine yourself as one with the surface you are sitting on and let the energy travel through your body from the floor to the top of your head. Picture an invisible cord attached to your head, which is pulling your body upright. This will provide a channel for the energy to flow through as it journeys up your spine and out through your head
Gently place your hands on your legs with your fingers relaxed and spread apart slightly. Start to relax your tongue and jaw as you lower your chin to your chest. Place your tongue to the roof of your mouth or up against the upper teeth with you mouth open ever so slightly. Focus your gaze with half opened eyes, seeing but not really noticing anything. Imagine yourself in a trance like state of awareness and no awareness at all. Do the same thing with any sounds you hear, you notice the sounds but you don’t give them any importance. Let them become part of the background music, which becomes part of the meditation and no more important than anything else in your field of consciousness.
Using Your Breath
As you start learning how to meditate one of the biggest obstacles will be controlling the thoughts that run rampant through your mind. By focusing on your breath you will learn to let go of these thoughts. Counting your breaths is a good way to stay focused. When you count your breaths, one breath in and one breath out will be a count of one. Try counting 15 to 20 breaths or how ever many it takes to train your mind to be quiet. As you breathe in imagine yourself breathing prana energy in and as you breath out picture all your tension and stress being released with each breath. Prana is the life force of God. Using the picture of prana we are training our minds to tap into the universal power,which gives us life.
Experience the Benefits Of Meditation.
You’re beginning to find that place inside yourself where you are in control and your thoughts and are guided by your intentions. That area within where the mind is no longer the controller of your destiny and controller of your fate. You are starting to relax and experience what it means to be in a basic state of goodness and joy, a boundless place of deep understanding and serenity. A level of consciousness that shows you that you are more than you think you are. All your former illusions of self are now breaking down and you are on a journey to discover the truly divine being you are.
Rejoice in learning how to meditate and know that you are changing your life for the better.
Practice these meditation techniques everyday for the best possible results.
