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.
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, 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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