Meditation Techniques
- Meditation can revitalize your mind, keep it calm and help you to control your mind, thoughts and life.
- Alpha waves that are activated during meditation can make your brain become more relaxed.
- Get into a comfortable place and relax your body. You should not be disturbed at all.
- Take some deep breaths.
- Close your eyes.
- Stay in an upright position, your spine should be in an upright position.
- You should not be tired or eat a big meal before meditation.
- Do it consistently every day, at the same time. The minimum amount of time is 5 minutes.
- Cross your legs and grasp your fingers.
- Your eyes must be closed, because eyes are the doors of the mind.
- Mind is nothing but a collection of thoughts.
Posture
- Loosen your muscles. Remember that you should not be tensed.
Breathing
- Focus on your breathing to stay concentrated during meditation. You can pay attention to the slight movements of your stomach during breathing.
- Focus on your exhales because your parasympathetic nervous system is activated during exhaling and you may feel relieved.
- Do not breathe consciously. Let inhalation and exhalation happen on their own. You are just the observer of your breaths and not their controller.
- When you are imminent to be distracted by different thoughts, just observe your breaths.
- After a while, you will reach a state labeled ‘no thought state’, in which your breaths will become really few, and you almost think about nothing and you will reach the no-thought state, which is receptive of cosmic energy.
- Suppose that you breathe in white air through your nose and breathe out dark and polluted air through your mouth, which shows that you are being purified.
- Don’t be judgmental of anything or anybody else, try to focus on your breaths and try to be forgiving.
- It should be long enough to be effective. Start this ritual for 5 minutes per day, and try to increase the length of this activity as time elapses.
- It’s good for human development.
- It’s a path of wisdom.
- It eradicates suffering.
- Listen to binaural music. You may sit before your stereo or wear headphones.
- Your ordinary life stops and you will be present.
- A perfect activity to practice mindfulness.
- Focus on the rising and falling of your belly during breathing to stay concentrated.
- Meditation gives rise to spirituality because it’s based on your breathing and spirit in Latin means breathing.
- Long-term meditation results in larger corpus callosum and hippocampi in both hemispheres and positive effects in the Default Mode Network.
- At the time of meditation, think that you are healing yourself, and you are being healed.
