Meditation
3 Easiest Ways to Meditate for Beginners
How to begin getting the benefits of meditation
Meditation has become popular today because of its mental and health benefits, here we will discuss the easiest ways to meditate, these meditation techniques are simple to follow and practice on your own at home.
Before we dive into the simple techniques of meditation, let’s define some terms so that we are on the same grounds.
What is Meditation
Meditation is simply a mental method or a technique used to enhance or elevate one’s awareness or attention.
For these reasons, there are many meditation techniques but they produce the same result. However, there are other advanced levels of meditation for spiritual growth on which I won’t discuss in this article.
When your attention is elevated, you gain more focus, with focus you become more productive, by becoming more productive you become successful on whatever you focus on, this is the first and foremost importance of meditation.
The Purpose of Meditation
As I have stated above, the basic purpose of meditation is to raise your level of alertness. When you begin to practice meditation, in less than a week you will notice that the mental fog is gone, you will become attentive, and start noticing little details that you never paid attention to.
There are many other benefits of meditation that I have listed in my other article down below.
The Principles of Meditation
During meditation, it is good to understand what you are doing so that you can have a guide to know if you are doing it the right way.
Meditation is a mental technique, someone was asking, “How can I stop my thoughts”, this is because of not understanding the actual mechanics behind meditation.
Your thoughts are like a river, they flow wherever you focus your attention on, so if you focus your attention on stopping your thoughts more thoughts will come so that you can stop them. But if you don’t focus at all, then you are transcending, it is like a floating boat, your attention is not focused on anything but the present moment. This is the basic principle of meditation. Here are three key points to reach a meditative state.
- Meditation does not involve focus or concentration, a lot of people believe that willpower will lead to better levels of relaxation, this is incorrect because the purpose of meditation is to be aware without focusing on anything.
- Relaxation can lead to more relaxation, one my early stages of learning meditation, I used to count from 10 to 1, on every count, I relaxed deeper and deeper. What I realized is that you have to let your body relax so that you can relax more, you just need a little push before the slop can take over.
- The fewer mental activities the more relaxation. Visualization and Imagination are not important during meditation. Don’t confuse visualization techniques with meditation, remember we are trying to stay above mental activities so that we can gain more awareness.
3 Easy Ways to Meditate for Beginners
In addition to that, especially for beginners, it is important to find a location or a room with these conditions.
- A place where you can sit comfortably either down or on a chair/sofa.
- Comfortable clothes, though it’s not necessary, loose and comfortable clothing are recommended for meditation exercises.
- A place out of interference, or let people know not to disturb you during your meditation.
- A room or studio that is not is either soundproof or away from loud places.
- Leave or turn off your phone during your meditation.
- Find a timer, meditation requires a certain level of discipline, the recommended time for meditation is 20 minutes, when you time yourself, you will feel a sense of accomplishment. I recommend timing yourself.
Now you know what you are doing, let’s dive into the three easiest techniques of meditation:
The breathing technique
This is a very simple meditation technique especially for beginners, here are the steps.
- Sit down comfortably.
- Close your eyes and relax, take three deep breaths, and feel relaxed.
- Become aware of your breathing, here you are not interfering with your breathing pattern but just become aware of it.
- During meditation, ideas will surface in your mind, the moment you become aware of this, just put your awareness back to your breathing. repeat the same process for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, stay with closed eyes for few seconds, then exit meditation.
The heartbeats technique.
This method is very similar to the breathing technique, the main difference is you are paying attention to your heartbeat, and the fact that you can’t interfere with your heartbeats as opposed to your breathing.
- Again sit down comfortably.
- Close your eyes and relax.-
- Become aware of your heartbeats, and lock your awareness on your heartbeats, thoughts will surface on your mind, it’s ok you will automatically remember that your main purpose is to put your awareness on your heartbeats, so simply go back to paying attention to your heartbeats, repeat the same procedure for 20 minutes.
- Once you are done, wait for few seconds before you open your eyes, then exit meditation.
Mindful technique,
This meditation technique is similar to two of the ones above, the main difference with this is you put your awareness on the present moment. These are the steps for a mindful meditation technique.
- Sit down comfortably.
- Relax. As for this technique, it is recommended not to close your eyes on this technique because it is easy to fall asleep.
- Just let thoughts flow in your mind without becoming involved with them, just become an observer, if you find yourself stuck in your thoughts simply come back to this present moment and just observe as moments pass by. On this technique it is recommended to do it for 20 minutes, you can exit without cooling down.
Conclusion:
As you see the main purpose of meditation is to gain more attention on the present moment, to gain more focus, though these techniques are different the underlying principle and mechanics are the same.
I hope this will bring a lot of changes and improvements to your daily activities.
Meditation
3 Easiest Ways to Meditate for Beginners
How to begin getting the benefits of meditation
Meditation has become popular today because of its mental and health benefits, here we will discuss the easiest ways to meditate, these meditation techniques are simple to follow and practice on your own at home.
Before we dive into the simple techniques of meditation, let’s define some terms so that we are on the same grounds.
What is Meditation
Meditation is simply a mental method or a technique used to enhance or elevate one’s awareness or attention.
For these reasons, there are many meditation techniques but they produce the same result. However, there are other advanced levels of meditation for spiritual growth on which I won’t discuss in this article.
When your attention is elevated, you gain more focus, with focus you become more productive, by becoming more productive you become successful on whatever you focus on, this is the first and foremost importance of meditation.
The Purpose of Meditation
As I have stated above, the basic purpose of meditation is to raise your level of alertness. When you begin to practice meditation, in less than a week you will notice that the mental fog is gone, you will become attentive, and start noticing little details that you never paid attention to.
There are many other benefits of meditation that I have listed in my other article down below.
The Principles of Meditation
During meditation, it is good to understand what you are doing so that you can have a guide to know if you are doing it the right way.
Meditation is a mental technique, someone was asking, “How can I stop my thoughts”, this is because of not understanding the actual mechanics behind meditation.
Your thoughts are like a river, they flow wherever you focus your attention on, so if you focus your attention on stopping your thoughts more thoughts will come so that you can stop them. But if you don’t focus at all, then you are transcending, it is like a floating boat, your attention is not focused on anything but the present moment. This is the basic principle of meditation. Here are three key points to reach a meditative state.
- Meditation does not involve focus or concentration, a lot of people believe that willpower will lead to better levels of relaxation, this is incorrect because the purpose of meditation is to be aware without focusing on anything.
- Relaxation can lead to more relaxation, one my early stages of learning meditation, I used to count from 10 to 1, on every count, I relaxed deeper and deeper. What I realized is that you have to let your body relax so that you can relax more, you just need a little push before the slop can take over.
- The fewer mental activities the more relaxation. Visualization and Imagination are not important during meditation. Don’t confuse visualization techniques with meditation, remember we are trying to stay above mental activities so that we can gain more awareness.
3 Easy Ways to Meditate for Beginners
In addition to that, especially for beginners, it is important to find a location or a room with these conditions.
- A place where you can sit comfortably either down or on a chair/sofa.
- Comfortable clothes, though it’s not necessary, loose and comfortable clothing are recommended for meditation exercises.
- A place out of interference, or let people know not to disturb you during your meditation.
- A room or studio that is not is either soundproof or away from loud places.
- Leave or turn off your phone during your meditation.
- Find a timer, meditation requires a certain level of discipline, the recommended time for meditation is 20 minutes, when you time yourself, you will feel a sense of accomplishment. I recommend timing yourself.
Now you know what you are doing, let’s dive into the three easiest techniques of meditation:
The breathing technique
This is a very simple meditation technique especially for beginners, here are the steps.
- Sit down comfortably.
- Close your eyes and relax, take three deep breaths, and feel relaxed.
- Become aware of your breathing, here you are not interfering with your breathing pattern but just become aware of it.
- During meditation, ideas will surface in your mind, the moment you become aware of this, just put your awareness back to your breathing. repeat the same process for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, stay with closed eyes for few seconds, then exit meditation.
The heartbeats technique.
This method is very similar to the breathing technique, the main difference is you are paying attention to your heartbeat, and the fact that you can’t interfere with your heartbeats as opposed to your breathing.
- Again sit down comfortably.
- Close your eyes and relax.-
- Become aware of your heartbeats, and lock your awareness on your heartbeats, thoughts will surface on your mind, it’s ok you will automatically remember that your main purpose is to put your awareness on your heartbeats, so simply go back to paying attention to your heartbeats, repeat the same procedure for 20 minutes.
- Once you are done, wait for few seconds before you open your eyes, then exit meditation.
Mindful technique,
This meditation technique is similar to two of the ones above, the main difference with this is you put your awareness on the present moment. These are the steps for a mindful meditation technique.
- Sit down comfortably.
- Relax. As for this technique, it is recommended not to close your eyes on this technique because it is easy to fall asleep.
- Just let thoughts flow in your mind without becoming involved with them, just become an observer, if you find yourself stuck in your thoughts simply come back to this present moment and just observe as moments pass by. On this technique it is recommended to do it for 20 minutes, you can exit without cooling down.
Conclusion:
As you see the main purpose of meditation is to gain more attention on the present moment, to gain more focus, though these techniques are different the underlying principle and mechanics are the same.
I hope this will bring a lot of changes and improvements to your daily activities.
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