Meditation Techniques For Beginners

In our stress-filled world meditation comes as a great tool to ease our mind. This technique of bringing mind/soul into perfect balance with your body has been around for thousands of years. Meditation has provided humans a way to learn how to co-exist and face the difficulties in this world. Meditation is an art and a wonderful technique to keep you focused, free of stress and in good health and spirit.

Everyone would like to achieve peace in life and keep away stress/sorrowful thoughts. Meditation is the best way to improve one’s physical and mental condition. The person becomes more conscious about his health, well being, and good things in society and harnesses the positive energy. It increases creativity, eliminates negative thoughts and helps to gain confidence. This can be done through easy yet powerful excercises – and you don’t have to be an expert to do so! You only have to find the right source! For starters, why don’t you check out these Free Meditation Videos?

Meditation has spiritual physical values too. People who meditate properly have been found to have lower cholesterol level, good blood pressure, healthier heart, better physical condition and simply just mentally stronger. Beside the physical benefits of meditation (reduced heart beat, better hand-eye coordination, weight stabilization, lessened menstrual pains) there are mental benefits as well:

• Stronger ability to learn, retain what you have learned
• Decreased levels of anxiety and stress
• Decreased irrirtation and mood swings
• Increased productivity
• Increased self-confidence
• More developed feelings of compassion, gratitude and love

Meditation is not only important to individuals but also to society. Modern scholars and sociologists say that meditation is a must for the present world where people are so busy and are under extreme stress. It will actually help not only overcoming the physical and mental difficulties but also in building a happier and stress-free society where there is less crime and more hapiness.

Meditation techniques for beginners

If you are new to meditation there are plenty of good resources to start with. The problem with most of them that they are either too complicated or too expensive. Finding the best source can be a chore, but it’s definitely worth the effort! Once you experienced the wonderful world of meditation and yoga, you won’t believe how you could live without it. But to do so, you have to learn the proper techniques; otherwise you would be simply wasting your time and energy! What is more, if you start off with the wrong techniques you might do more harm than good!

Mindfulness of Breathing. This technique helps you to relax your body and release the pain and stress. Just concentrate on your breathing, in and out, in and out. Don’t think, just focus on the physical existence and the essential part of it: breathing. The goal is to not to think – just ease your mind and let go the problems. Do not think.

Visualization. This is one of the easiest techniques. You simply have to think of a physical object in your mind. Visualize it, just look at it and admire it. Stop thinking about other things just dedicate all your attention to this chosen object. You will be able to enter a state where you become one with the world around you – you are the object!

Concentration. Concentrating means being at the centre, focusing only on a single point. All you have to do is shut off your thoughts apart from the one that you are focusing on. When you do that properly you don’t sense time – because time doesn’t exist. Only you and your chosen point. To practise concentration all you have to do is to look at a physical scene then close your eyes and recreate the picture mentally. See every little detail, feel every move! Exclude all other thoughts just live in the picture! This technique will help you to develop mental imagery and you will be more focused. Try to practice this every day for at least a few minutes!

Transcendental meditation. This type of meditation is an ancient Vedic technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh yogi in 1958. This is a simple yet powerful process – just sit comfortably with eyes closed and look inward. In this silent and peaceful level of consciousness your body gains deep rest and gives you inner energy.

As you can see these techniques are easy to do, even for those who have never practised meditation or yoga. What tends to be difficult though is making the time to actually do it. But knowing the proper techniques is essential since chasing wrong methods can lead to a state where you do more harm than good! Find a good and reliable source!

The human body is a biological internal combustion engine which enables us to perceive the physical universe and to take actions driven by our thoughts. For example now that I’m writing I’m using my fingers to type and also my eyes to see the screen. We can say that the body is an interlink between the “inner us” and the “outer world”.

What is the proper body like?

A proper body works and functions in a way that one doesn’t really notice. It doesn’t create a problem for its owner (in the form of sickness), it doesn’t go off (injury) and it lasts for a long-long time. Basically it helps us so that we can do our own things in this world and don’t have to pay attention to it. But still we need to take good care of it if we want it to work properly. Plus a beautiful body brings some aesthetics into the world.

What do you need for this?

So we have to take good care of the body and we have to provide everything that it needs. We need to
please it by giving it everything that it needs. And by everything we mean everything it needs not what we think it needs. There is a big difference here. Unfortunately there are a lot of misconceptions about this topic. The human body is fairly resistant but if we don’t give it what it needs then it starts to do funny things then it breaks down and we can’t use it anymore. Plus it gets ugly!

What are the needs of the body?

The body has a lot of needs. We almost deal with it the whole day – whether we want to or not. Sleeping, resting, excercising, eating… We spend 2/3 of our life in bed. Apart from the fact that we need spiritual freshness we also have to provide enough rest for our body. When we don’t feed it or dress it, we go to work to make money in order to buy more “fuel” or clothes, to build a home so that it can rest.

What do you need to have a proper body?

Over the past few years I came to realize that the most important thing is to understand the needs of the body. And also to understand what it doesn’t need. This is not an easy job since our world is full of different concepts and misconceptions – who knows what is best? Well the bad news is that you actually have to find it out for yourself. Of course there are certain things that are essential (healthy food, vitamins, excercise, sleeping) – but are you willing to provide these for your body? I suggest to start digging on the internet to find out what is good for you and just stick to it! It’s your life it’s your body.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects) once said, “Man, in order to escape his conflicts, has invented many forms of meditation. These have been based on desire, will, and the urge for achievement, and imply conflict and a struggle to arrive. This conscious, deliberate striving is always within the limits of a conditioned mind, and in this there is no freedom. All effort to meditate is the denial of meditation. Meditation is the ending of thought. It is only then that there is a different dimension which is beyond time.”

So you have heard about meditation. But what is meditation exactly? Why is it good?

- Meditation can cease psychosomatic illnesses
- It can resolve the mental barricade that is responsible for sorrow and unhappiness
- Meditation creates harmony, brings balance to your life and gives inner peace
- It can increase your awareness about life, goals, other people and happiness
- Makes you look younger
- Lowers blood pressure

What is the goal of meditation?

- Releasing stress
- Easing the mind
- Creating a state where you are free and happy

The advantage of meditation
The biggest advantage of meditation – especially breathing meditation – that you can do it anytime, anywhere. Even at your workplace, before an important meeting, on the street, in a traffic jam, etc.

Physiological effect
If you live a stressful and busy life your brain produces more electrical tension – the problem of our era: the headache arises. Meditation reduces significantly the electrical tension in our brain, so it can rest for a few minutes and heal itself. You will feel much more alive, clean and fresh after a few minutes of relaxation.

Research shows that during sleeping and meditation metabolism also slows down. Metabolism indicates the inner balance of your body. If it’s slow then it needs more time to convert food into energy therefore using less oxygen.

The deep and real relaxation activates the healing power of the body which starts certain processes that make you look younger. The metabolism slows down so the body can focus on healing and renewing itself.

During sleep our metabolism slows down by 8% after 4-5 hours. When you meditate it slows down by 20% in just half an hour therefore it gives you quality rest. Warning: meditation cannot be a substitute for sleep!

Stress contracts the vein walls and that causes high blood pressure. Meditation eases up the veins and creates a better way for the blood flow.