Learning Meditation Techniques - How to Meditate When Waiting

Health Articles | August 19, 2008

You can practice most meditation techniques anywhere, at any time. Do this on a train, in a waiting room or the back of a taxi. Especially do it if you find yourself getting irritated. As soon as you feel your blood pressure rising, take a breath and let your tension go with your exhalation. Stop your body, check your breathing and allow your mind to clear.

If, as you learn meditation, you can learn to actually enjoy waiting, then you will have gained a huge benefit from it. You will start to see periods of waiting as times of opportunity rather than frustration.

Part of what we learn from meditation is being able to let go of our egos, our expectations, our anxieties and just experience existing, just 'being' is hard, though. It takes practice.

Part of just 'being' is refraining from judging. Think about it and you will realize that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you spend a certain amount of energy assessing your surroundings, whether it's the people, the sounds, the objects or the smells. You're thinking 'that's nice, that's nasty; she looks capable, he's ugly; it's grey, it's blue'. Try just practicing being aware, but without making judgments,

Soften your gaze as you look at objects. Depending on your surroundings you can choose a smell, an object or a sound on which to focus. A smell can be an interesting subject for meditation: easy if you happen to be waiting next to a bakery; hard if you're standing at a bus stop next to a garbage truck.

How to Meditate With The Waiting Meditation Technique

1. Breathe, relax your body. Allow your eyes to go out of focus.

2. Start to notice the smells around you - and there will be some, both nice and nasty.

3. Notice the tip of your nose nostrils and beginning to float through your body like vapor. With each breath, inhale the smell until you are full of it. Now you and the smell surrounding you are one and the same.

4. If you start to think 'this is horrible' or 'this is lovely', allow the thought in and then let it drift off again.

5. When you're ready

, refocus your eyes.

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To learn meditation is the perfect way to relax, center yourself and calm down. It is something that you can wherever you are - on a train, sitting at your desk - or whenever the mood strikes you. By learning meditation techniques you will soon find that what was once a challenge and stressful becomes second nature and 'a walk in the park'.