“The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts, it's to stop letting your thoughts control you.”
HOW TO MEDITATE: SIMPLE MEDITATION practice FOR BEGINNERS
This meditation practice below is a beginners guide to meditation techniques.
1) Sit down in a chair or legs crossed on your yoga mat or lie comfortably.
2) Close your eyes.
3) Breathe in and our naturally, make no effort to control the breath.
4) Now you can focus your attention on the breath. How does the body move with each inhalation and exhalation? Put your awareness into the movement of your body as you breath in and out. If your mind wanders, return your focus back to your breath.
That’s it!
I would recommend you try to maintain this meditation practice for a few minutes to start, and then try it for longer periods. The work is to just keep doing it. Results will accrue.
Some of the benefits of meditation are:
~ Builds self confidence
~ Lower blood pressure
~ Increases serotonin which influences moods and behavior
~ Improved blood circulation
~ Deeper relaxation
~ Increases concentration and strengthens the mind
~ Lower heart rate
~ Less perspiration
~ Enhances strength, energy and vigor
~ Slower respiratory rate
~ Less anxiety
~ Lower blood cortisol levels
~ More feelings of well-being
~ Reduces stress and tension
~ Helps with weight loss
~ Creates a state of deep relaxation and general feeling of well-being
~ Helps reduce heart disease
During meditation you strengthen awareness in your consciousness: sensations, emotions, thoughts, urges, etc. By doing this, you develop the skill of noticing your thoughts without getting caught up in them. The goal of meditation is not to forcibly end or prevent thoughts and feelings to come to the surface. Instead, you accept and acknowledge all of it non -judgmentally.
Meditation is simply embracing whatever is happening in the present moment. It's important to note that meditation isn't analyzing your emotions or thoughts nor dwelling on them.
The reason we meditate is to STOP getting caught up in our minds. By doing this, we stop following our minds down the same limiting thought patterns, conditioned behaviors and habitual reactions.
By consistently practicing meditation, we are made aware of our own mind made activity. None of it is permanent- it comes and passes if we don't cling to it and make it something bigger than it is. Awareness creates the space that allows you to observe this process as it happens, instead of a thought leading to this emotion and action.
Meditation creates a new path that is not dictated by the next thought, emotion, feeling or urge that comes into our heads. Instead of being on "autopilot," the new path leads away from reacting to whatever happens in our minds.
Don't try to suppress your emotions, thoughts and feelings- meditation doesn't teach that. It also doesn't teach trying to stop or control your mind made activity.
What meditation does teach is to become aware and live in the present "now." It teaches you to notice your emotions and thoughts as they arise without getting caught up in them. By doing this, you let them be as they are: free from you and your attention.
Love & Light,
Namaste ~ Paulina
Hello, my name is Paulina. I went thru a spiritual awakening journey in 2018. I am in touch with my higher self and want to help you find yours. Until your higher self kicks in let me be your guide back home. Book 1:1 sessions with me: www.fromanotherealm.com
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