Count Your Breaths

Every breath has a count to it.  If you inhale one breathe and exhale one that is a count.  What someone should do is count from one to twenty and twenty to one for a 10 minute meditation.  Increase as they get more comfortable.  1-50 and 50 -1 is about a fifteen minute meditation.  1-100 and 100-1 is about a half hour.  When you are able to do this, ideas will roll in and roll out.  Your job is not to resist them but allow those thoughts to take their natural course.  Then the thoughts that come in will start to formulate into solutions that you have been searching for.  Why, because you have let yourself get into a place to allow that energy flow to and through you without stress or restrictions. A better way to explain this is that our energy in our body is like a hose.  When the hose is clear, the water flows through easily and effortlessly.  When there is a kink in the hose, the water trickles.  Stress is like a kink in our hose and the energy cannot flow. Energy stops where we tense up tighten up.