Learning to meditate is not difficult, which is why many struggle to learn how to do it properly.
Mediation simply is the art of learning to distance oneself from ones thoughts thereby becoming more relaxed, aware, and connected to all things above and below.
Eventually the thoughts go quiet and the experience of 'being' becomes truly restful and pleasurable.
Methodology in meditation is secondary to the actual achieval of personal results.
When learning to meditate one must first set aside a small amount of time (fifteen minutes is a good beginning amount of time.
) Once every day or night simply sit, or lay down and focus on nothing but breathing slowly, paying no attention to you thoughts.
The purpose of this is to push your ego out of the way long enough for you to become aware of the other things you can feel and sense.
It often helps to look at a fixed point, something calming and pleasing to you, either in the distance or something nearby(this depends on what works best for you.
) One of the primary difficulties many beginners face is that they may not recognize how deeply their mind has penetrated their awareness.
Thus it becomes necessary to ignore their thoughts when they are accustomed to acting on them.
Many beginners are attracted to ritual to help them learn to meditate.
Eventually ritual needs to be cast aside for deeper practice.
Ultimately this leads to a more relaxed state and the overactive mind becomes less dependent, more sedate, and more responsive without us having to think about something, the answer is simply before us.
The results of meditation include increased awareness, relaxation, and general sense of well being.
Meditation is actually an art of balance and anyone who has truly attempted to mediate can tell you it requires that you face your anxieties, fears, desires, hopes, and learn that you are something far more.
In the beginning stages of meditation a true peace may be experienced but only elusively.
By only practicing for fifteen minutes each day it is far easier to limit the minds tumultuous interuptions on the practice.
Eventually the mind quiets and the journey into who and what we are really can begin.
Those who successfully meditate seem to enjoy a greater awareness by not being preoccupied while they are completing a task or reading a good book, they are completely into the experience while being completely at ease and completely focused without having to force themselves to focus, things simply come easier.
Meditation is a not a religious affair unless you choose to make it one.
It can prove to profoundly enriching and at other times profoundly frustrating.
While in such a relaxed state it is very easy to feel more connected to everything around you, more aware and alive, which is why it is so popular.
Everyone meditates naturally when they sleep.
When we are awake our mind without the proper maintenance of meditation begins to run its own routine.
It becomes very easy to be distracted by the mind and to fall under its spell of concerns, dreams, fears,...
all of these take us out of the experience of being here, now and serve to support the minds preoccupation with itself.
Many people never take the time to learn who and what they really are, they live their lives completely unaware as they never see past the illusions their mind casts before them.
As one learns to meditate these illusions begin to crumble and what we may have once felt strongly about we find was only a illusion of the mind designed to control us, to those who have learned to meditate, the slavery of living only in the mind, without awareness, is imaginable.
When learning to meditate be patient with yourself.
Avoid falling into states of fear, anxiety, or panic by focusing on your breathing.
Breathe in and out slowly and naturally, from your belly not your upper chest.
Only meditate for fifteen minutes a day.
Lapses in attention to your thoughts are not necessarily bad, nor is falling asleep.
Relax and remain aware and you will surely find the joy of being.
Mediation simply is the art of learning to distance oneself from ones thoughts thereby becoming more relaxed, aware, and connected to all things above and below.
Eventually the thoughts go quiet and the experience of 'being' becomes truly restful and pleasurable.
Methodology in meditation is secondary to the actual achieval of personal results.
When learning to meditate one must first set aside a small amount of time (fifteen minutes is a good beginning amount of time.
) Once every day or night simply sit, or lay down and focus on nothing but breathing slowly, paying no attention to you thoughts.
The purpose of this is to push your ego out of the way long enough for you to become aware of the other things you can feel and sense.
It often helps to look at a fixed point, something calming and pleasing to you, either in the distance or something nearby(this depends on what works best for you.
) One of the primary difficulties many beginners face is that they may not recognize how deeply their mind has penetrated their awareness.
Thus it becomes necessary to ignore their thoughts when they are accustomed to acting on them.
Many beginners are attracted to ritual to help them learn to meditate.
Eventually ritual needs to be cast aside for deeper practice.
Ultimately this leads to a more relaxed state and the overactive mind becomes less dependent, more sedate, and more responsive without us having to think about something, the answer is simply before us.
The results of meditation include increased awareness, relaxation, and general sense of well being.
Meditation is actually an art of balance and anyone who has truly attempted to mediate can tell you it requires that you face your anxieties, fears, desires, hopes, and learn that you are something far more.
In the beginning stages of meditation a true peace may be experienced but only elusively.
By only practicing for fifteen minutes each day it is far easier to limit the minds tumultuous interuptions on the practice.
Eventually the mind quiets and the journey into who and what we are really can begin.
Those who successfully meditate seem to enjoy a greater awareness by not being preoccupied while they are completing a task or reading a good book, they are completely into the experience while being completely at ease and completely focused without having to force themselves to focus, things simply come easier.
Meditation is a not a religious affair unless you choose to make it one.
It can prove to profoundly enriching and at other times profoundly frustrating.
While in such a relaxed state it is very easy to feel more connected to everything around you, more aware and alive, which is why it is so popular.
Everyone meditates naturally when they sleep.
When we are awake our mind without the proper maintenance of meditation begins to run its own routine.
It becomes very easy to be distracted by the mind and to fall under its spell of concerns, dreams, fears,...
all of these take us out of the experience of being here, now and serve to support the minds preoccupation with itself.
Many people never take the time to learn who and what they really are, they live their lives completely unaware as they never see past the illusions their mind casts before them.
As one learns to meditate these illusions begin to crumble and what we may have once felt strongly about we find was only a illusion of the mind designed to control us, to those who have learned to meditate, the slavery of living only in the mind, without awareness, is imaginable.
When learning to meditate be patient with yourself.
Avoid falling into states of fear, anxiety, or panic by focusing on your breathing.
Breathe in and out slowly and naturally, from your belly not your upper chest.
Only meditate for fifteen minutes a day.
Lapses in attention to your thoughts are not necessarily bad, nor is falling asleep.
Relax and remain aware and you will surely find the joy of being.
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