How Exactly Do I Meditate?
I will explain to you how to go about a basic meditation practice.
The first thing that you need to do is find a nice clean and quite area to sit.
The traditional way to sit is in a cross legged position, but you can sit in a chair if it's more comfortable.
The most important thing is to keep your back straight.
Keep your hands folded in front of you on your lap.
Next you want to close your eyes, but not all the way.
Close them about ¾ or the way.
You don't want to fall asleep.
The goal now is to focus on your breathing and to quiet your mind.
You want to pay attention to your breaths, following them in and out.
It's important not to change your breathing habits.
Some people have the misconception that they should be taking deep breaths.
This is not a stress management therapy, those are great too, but that's not what we are doing here.
This is a traditional meditation practice and will be much more powerful than anything else once you master it.
While sitting quietly and still, just focus your attention on each breath as it comes in and as it goes out meanwhile quieting your mind from all your busy thoughts and distractions.
Do this for about 1 or 2 minutes until the busyness of your mind settles a little bit.
The next step while still focusing on each breath and not changing your breathing patterns is to imagine all your busy and distracting thoughts turn in to black smoke, then breathing that black smoke out through your nose if possible.
Repeat this for a few minutes and most of your remaining thoughts will dissipate.
Next you want to imagine on the in breath that you are breathing in bright white cleansing light that is purifying your mind and your thoughts.
Now, while focusing on breathing out your busy, negative and distracting thoughts in the form of black smoke and breathing in pure bright white light that is purifying your mind, simply repeat this as long as your mind can remain focused on these 2 things.
If your mind starts to wonder, just simply return your thoughts to your breathing.
5-10 minutes is a good amount of time to start with if you are a beginner.
Even after becoming more advanced with your meditation practice, it's still only recommended that you practice for no longer than 20 minutes.
It's very hard to keep your mind focused that long.
If you can get in to a deep meditative state for a few of those minutes you will make great progress.
If you would like to practice more, then it is recommended that you do multiple sessions in one day and keep them shorter as it's more beneficial and you want to get the most out of it.
For example: 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening or at whatever times work best for you.
Although this breathing meditation that I walked you through is a basic form of meditation, it can be VERY powerful and you can get some amazing realizations from it's practice, especially in multiple sessions.
This practice alone can bring a great deal of mental peace.
As you get more comfortable with this meditation and it starts to become more clear, it may then be time to move on to some more advanced techniques which usually include meditating of virtuous objects.
Have more questions about meditation? Ask me at [http://www.
AskPatKing.
com] and get my new ebook absolutely FREE!
The first thing that you need to do is find a nice clean and quite area to sit.
The traditional way to sit is in a cross legged position, but you can sit in a chair if it's more comfortable.
The most important thing is to keep your back straight.
Keep your hands folded in front of you on your lap.
Next you want to close your eyes, but not all the way.
Close them about ¾ or the way.
You don't want to fall asleep.
The goal now is to focus on your breathing and to quiet your mind.
You want to pay attention to your breaths, following them in and out.
It's important not to change your breathing habits.
Some people have the misconception that they should be taking deep breaths.
This is not a stress management therapy, those are great too, but that's not what we are doing here.
This is a traditional meditation practice and will be much more powerful than anything else once you master it.
While sitting quietly and still, just focus your attention on each breath as it comes in and as it goes out meanwhile quieting your mind from all your busy thoughts and distractions.
Do this for about 1 or 2 minutes until the busyness of your mind settles a little bit.
The next step while still focusing on each breath and not changing your breathing patterns is to imagine all your busy and distracting thoughts turn in to black smoke, then breathing that black smoke out through your nose if possible.
Repeat this for a few minutes and most of your remaining thoughts will dissipate.
Next you want to imagine on the in breath that you are breathing in bright white cleansing light that is purifying your mind and your thoughts.
Now, while focusing on breathing out your busy, negative and distracting thoughts in the form of black smoke and breathing in pure bright white light that is purifying your mind, simply repeat this as long as your mind can remain focused on these 2 things.
If your mind starts to wonder, just simply return your thoughts to your breathing.
5-10 minutes is a good amount of time to start with if you are a beginner.
Even after becoming more advanced with your meditation practice, it's still only recommended that you practice for no longer than 20 minutes.
It's very hard to keep your mind focused that long.
If you can get in to a deep meditative state for a few of those minutes you will make great progress.
If you would like to practice more, then it is recommended that you do multiple sessions in one day and keep them shorter as it's more beneficial and you want to get the most out of it.
For example: 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening or at whatever times work best for you.
Although this breathing meditation that I walked you through is a basic form of meditation, it can be VERY powerful and you can get some amazing realizations from it's practice, especially in multiple sessions.
This practice alone can bring a great deal of mental peace.
As you get more comfortable with this meditation and it starts to become more clear, it may then be time to move on to some more advanced techniques which usually include meditating of virtuous objects.
Have more questions about meditation? Ask me at [http://www.
AskPatKing.
com] and get my new ebook absolutely FREE!
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