How to start meditating

How to start meditating

In life, things often escape our grasp and there are times when it is impossible for us to regain control. Many reasons can explain such situations, even those we are not aware of. Meditation makes it possible to find these reasons, to see things clearly, and to act as best as we can.

Tear the veil of illusion apart!

From the start (birth) to finish (death), life is a great adventure. We can’t know any of its stages or outcomes in advance.

Life often tosses us about. We find ourselves facing events we have no control over. We often get the impression that we can’t get a grip on certain events, that we are the puppets of chance. But reality is different. This impression is but an illusion.

In fact, we get this impression because we are ignorant of the reasons why some things happen to us. When pleasant things happen, no harm can be done. But, when we are faced with failures, things become more serious.

That’s when we need to learn from our mistakes or faults so as to avoid reproducing the same negative situations leading to failure.

This is easier said than done because we do not always know the reasons lying behind our actions because they are sometimes buried deep down within our subconscious. Meditation brings them back to the surface.

I offer you to discover a particular but simple form of meditation below, one that can enable you to find all the reasons lying behind your actions so you can act consciously and really take charge of your life.

Letting yourself go

• Sit down comfortably, with your back straight, in a room where no one can disturb you for fifteen minutes.
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• Place your arms on your legs, your palm up and open.
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• Close your eyes and take deep breaths.
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• Once you have started taking deep breaths and that you have reached an adequate level of relaxation, notice all your thoughts flowing.
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• Try not to stop any of them, and let your thoughts flow in your mind without focusing on any of them. This is the key to meditation.
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• Proceed this way for five minutes at the beginning. Then gradually move on to fifteen minutes.
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• The most important thing – especially at the beginning – is to practice regularly: 5 minutes each day will be enough to bring you some sort of well-being!

The benefits of meditation

Practicing meditation will help you relax, clear your mind, find solutions to your problems, and make the right decisions more quickly.

Letting your thoughts flow prevents you from focusing on any of them. Therefore you do not run the risk of letting any of them become a focal point entrapping you in their negativity.

Focusing too much on any of them may have negative repercussions, not only on your mind – as they turn into obsessions – but also on your body – since we often adopt an inadequate behavior when under their influence.

Properly-performed meditation acts as a piece of cloth on a dirty window. It enables you to see reality beyond appearances.

This meditation will have a beneficial influence both on your body and your mind since they are interdependent and closely related, provided that you put it into practice on a regular basis.

A few thoughts to meditate on...

• Meditation is the best way to transform your mind without having to go through a long psychological or psychanalytic process.
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• Meditation grants you access to the depths of your subconscious, your unexploited resources, and your hidden skills.
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• The positive effects of meditation on the mind and the body have been demonstrated by numerous studies, and by regular practice.
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• Put the kind of meditation that suits you into practice. By doing so you will always derive benefits, provided that you meditate on a regular basis.