What is Meditation?
Meditation can be thought of as greatly directed concentration, but a portion of the population whom meditate practice clearing their thoughts from exterior disruptive or hindering ideas. When beginning meditation this is a proper focus to start with and you will greatly benefit if you occasionally continue this method even after you have mastered the basics. After doing this for a while you are ready to begin sharpening your skills with visualization.
Visualization is when you can see what you are thinking about. The more you practice this the more crisp the images will be. Many times I remember where I placed something by “seeing” where I put it but this is only one advantage and just the tip of the ice berg of things you can accomplish with visualization. Also this can extend to all your senses.
Looking within for answers
You should start looking towards your inner self for resolutions. When you question others for solutions to your dilemmas, they aren’t nearly as interested in producing a worthy answer as you are in receiving one.
As you begin to get more proficient with clearing your mind of external distractions you will become more able to listen to your inner mind for suggestions to specific questions you ask of it. Whether you believe it or not you remember being born and every experience you ever had and all of the situations you have ever dealt with.
OK so this probably is not on a conscious level but that information is still there and ready for your subconscious to draw from to produce answers with. It not only utilizes these memories but calculates information more quickly and effective than the conscious is capable of.
Ever forget the phone number of a relative or old friend, and then after a bit of time it just sprung back into your mind? this was your unconscious mind bring those digits to the surface of your mind for you. and this is just one way your subconscious is able to produce answers for you.
One Method to get you started:
Find a place free of noise and other distractions, assume a comfortable position, close your eyes and begin breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth hold your breath for two seconds (or comfortable time frame) between inhale and exhale, this is going to get a little more oxygen to your brain and also help you get into a rhythm.
Continuously breathe in this fashion throughout the meditation. Now start to visualize a powered of monitor screen no blinking led, no pretty graphics filling the screen. With continued practice you should be able to keep images from filling the screen. now start paying attention to the weight of your body and start easing your muscles.
Every time you exhale relax everything a little more. If you find you have problems relaxing your body parts, tense them for a moment, but not too much you don’t want to cause any cramping, and then release that tension while paying attention to the sensation of letting it go.
Good now you should be able to allow yourself to relax a little more with each exhale. When you feel like you are almost floating or swaying, you have reached self guided light meditation.
Now continue this for a predetermined amount of time (use a cook timer if needed the ticking won’t hurt anything) and you when you have finished you will have just taken your first voyage into meditation.
You should practice this at least three times a week for a month and then begin changing the focus to some other random object . When the visualization become razor sharp you’re now ready to begin Deep Meditation where you use it for a purpose.
If you begin trying to recall stuff or grasp new ideas that seem to flee from you, allow yourself some time and the solutions will materialize suddenly when you expect it the least, so long as your urge continues for a solution.
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