Meditation for Beginners

Meditation for beginners

Well done on being here. You definitely did not chance upon this, oh wait, do you think this was already part of your journey that you are here reading this? Only you will know, maybe now, later, when you're ready. Many of us are always searching for that deep sense of belonging towards peace and happiness. Few of us find it. This is because of what we choose to condition ourselves with, consciously or unconsciously. If you are looking for/ to:

• Tranquility(peace and calmness) in your life
• To manage stress
• Increase of productivity at work
• Improvements in physical wellbeing
• Having a higher awareness of your self 
• Improvements in the quality of life experiences
• Increased focus
• Decreasing pain
• Improvements of your mental wellbeing
• To improve your relationships with family or partner 
• To have more empathy 
• Be more responsible
• Recover faster from injury/ muscle soreness 
• Increase oxygen uptake
• Higher vibrational frequency 
• A higher state of mind(Enlightenment)

and so much more, then you sure can use meditation as it's simple and you don't need any expensive set up for this. All you need is to learn how and where to shift your awareness to. 

Setting up for Meditation

• Set yourself up in a space that allows the least amount of disturbances, which is the most important part of meditation especially when you're just beginning.
• Make sure you are wearing something comfortable, nothing too tight that your mind keeps on being aware of it. 
• Lying or sitting positions don't matter for now as long as you are comfortable position. If you are sitting up, sit upright and find a relaxed position where your upper back isn't hunched forward(keep your upper back upright, look straight then close your eyes) If you're lying down, have your palms facing upwards, feet slightly apart from each other and just relax.

Sitting meditation

Lying meditation

Duration 
Start of with whatever you can afford or want to. It can be as short as a minute and you can work up to however long you wish to after as you progress and find time.

Breath
Simple as it is, the art of meditation starts and end with the breath. There is no secret to this(well it was a secret but now you know it!). When we are sad, we breath a certain way, happy a certain way, angry a certain way which we already know how and etc. Breath says a lot but is very subtle and if you know when to be aware of it ,many things change. Start by learning to practice shifting your awareness to your breath. As you read this i want you to already do it as we go with your eyes open and then practise it with your eyes closed. As you take a deep inhale, be aware of every air that goes in through your nose, imagine you can see clouds of smoke going into your nostrils, and as you exhale, exhale slower than you inhale and be aware of the clouds of smoke going out. Now take your time and close your eyes to practice one to two cycle of breath doing that. 

Now slowly increase that practise from two breath to a few more moment of time without counting the breath or taking time into consideration, whatever feels right, then you open your eyes(make a conscious decision when you actually want to open your eyes). That's it, your'e done for meditation session! The mind will try and take you places of trauma, joy, imagination and such things as it's the mind, it doesn't want to stop. Most of us aren't comfortable with sitting quite due to us not being conscious enough to actually separate our minds and our self. Ask yourself, does your mind belong to you, or you belong to your mind. If it belongs to you, start being aware of the breath and see how it changes your environment and life experiences.

"When in doubt observe your breath, when in need observe your breath". 

All the best. 

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