Meditation is an exercise that promotes relaxation, freeing the mind from everyday problems and worries. If you learn to meditate correctly, it will help you in the fight against stress and bad habits, reveal hidden potential, strengthen will, improve memory and intellect.
How to learn meditation?
Meditation is not magic or magic that opens the "third" eye, it is an exercise that helps to restore the mental and physical health of a person. Any person can learn to meditate at home - there would be a desire, time and place.
Many people use meditation without even knowing it, for example, when they "count the sheep" when they try to fall asleep. Why does this exercise work? When you "count lambs" you focus on their image, and all thoughts that can prevent you from falling asleep, leave you. Further calms and lulls the monotony of the appearance of images.
How do you learn how to meditate on your own?
If you want to learn meditation on your own, but more seriously, first, take the time to exercise. It is best to meditate for 15-20 minutes twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. This should become your daily habit, bringing satisfaction and giving energy.
An excellent place for meditation at home is a quiet and comfortable room, but preferably not the one where you sleep. People practicing meditation are advised to apply these exercises even on the road - in the train or bus. And although in such conditions it will not be possible to completely relax, meditation will help restore strength and rest. However, one should practice this only with the experience - the beginner will not be able to relax with a large crowd of people.
To take the right position for meditation, you do not have to sit in the lotus position, you can just cross your legs "in Turkish." The most important is that your spine be perpendicular to the surface on which you are sitting. This position is necessary for deeper breathing and preservation of awareness, because meditation involves a border state. An additional bonus of training will be that your back will eventually become stronger and stop ache.
Learning to relax for meditation is difficult. If you do not get it - leave it at that, in time you can completely relax the body. The next step is to turn off thinking. As soon as you start to think about something, return attention to the point from which you started to concentrate.
What to concentrate on during meditation?
- Breathing . Watch your breathing, track the movement of air inside you.
- Mantra or prayer . Any phrase that you constantly repeat, loses its meaning and helps to clear the mind.
- Visualization . You can imagine yourself in an abstract cloud or a balloon, move into an imaginary setting, giving peace and tranquility.
Concentrating on the mantra or breathing helps to disable thinking , but the brain will not stop functioning. During meditation, the brain begins to process the information received during the day, which you did not have time to think about. And you are only watching this process from the outside.
Tips for beginners
If you want to learn how to meditate properly, do not wait for an instant result and do not give up classes. Sometimes it takes several months for the practice of meditation to begin to bear fruit, but if you do not work on yourself, nothing will come of it. Before meditation, one should not eat tightly, because this process slows the digestion of food. But the hungry should not be engaged, tk. thoughts about food will distract you, eat something easy.
If you suffer from depression, panic attacks, nervousness, at first you can feel the deterioration of your condition. The guru of meditation believes that in this way all the accumulated negativity comes out. This state will pass and it will become easier.