3 Amazing Meditation Techniques Every Beginner Should Try

Jul 30
19:52

2011

devang Kakkad

devang Kakkad

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Meditation is a very powerful method to unravel your true potential but it needs regular practice and patience to see the results. These techniques will serve you to make a good start.

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Meditation is the process of expanding your awareness. Meditation is the process of silencing your thoughts and getting in touch with the deepest part of yourself,3 Amazing Meditation Techniques Every Beginner Should Try Articles your source. Meditation makes you powerful, happy, and eventually enlightened.

The best time to meditate is in the morning after you have taken a shower. The next best time to meditate is early in the evening around sunset. When you sit down to meditate you should listen to music that helps you relax. The music of Zazen, Kitaro, or Joaquin Lievano is highly recommended.

Do yourself a favor and try following 3 techniques

FOCUSING ON BREATHING

Just allow your body to breathe naturally, and focus your attention wherever you feel the sensation of the breath in your body. It can be your abdominal, nostrils or chest. When you are inhaling be aware, be conscious that you are inhaling; when you are exhaling just know, and be aware that you are exhaling. It is quite natural that thoughts will arise while witnessing the breath - don't try to fight with thoughts, don't try to control your thoughts.

CHOICELESS AWARENESS

Just allow thoughts to arise - thoughts of the past, thoughts of the future - and see how far you can simply observe these thoughts, just thoughts arising and passing away, as if these thoughts do not belong to you, as though you were observing another person's thoughts. This is called being outsider in your inner realm.

After some practice, you can do the same in regard to any emotion that is arising in you. Whatever emotion is arising - sadness, anxiety, fear, joy - do not want it to stay in your mind, and also do not want it to go away, just be at one with that emotion as a non-attached witness.

LOVING-KINDNESS


This meditation is about how far you can gently soften towards yourself, accepting yourself as you are, without any notion of what you should become.

Learn to accept yourself as you are, and learn to accept others as they are, without an image of how you or they should be. Keep this thought in mind for everyone, every time: May all beings be well and happy; may all beings overcome the suffering that they create themselves.

 If you are serious about meditation, you should start by meditating 15 minutes twice a day, then increase that time to 30 minutes, then 45 minutes, and eventually 1 hour twice a day. You should also meditate with a teacher of meditation as often as you can.

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