Quiet the mind - #1 series on Meditation:

We hear a lot about meditation techniques, breathing; the main thing is when you first learn to meditate and I have been practicing meditation for over 30 years; the main thing is to learn to quiet the mind. This is key no matter which type of meditation you practice.

Whether it be guided meditation when you are listening to someone speak, or music, or you are relaxing. You need to quiet your mind. Look at thoughts as being clouds passing by.
Don’t get involved with your thoughts; that’s key. And this will help you quiet your mind.

So when you first sit you want to be sitting erect.
You can sit on the floor; you can sit in a chair. You can lie down but you may fall asleep. So especially in the beginning you want to try and sit in a position you wouldn’t normally sleep in. And you want to maybe sit in a chair or on a pillow or something and keep your spine erect; close your eyes; gently watch your breathing and look toward the point between the eyes by turning your eyes upward.

Later you won’t have to focus so much on this but you want to quiet your breathing and this will help quiet your mind. As the thoughts come up let them go, because until you actively engage in a thought it has no power.

Relax
Let the breathing be natural, gently breathing in and out.
Let go.
Let go of all the tensions of the day.
All the worries; this is your time to relax.

Here is some relaxing music to get you started.

When I first started meditating I meditated for 5 minutes at a time once a day. Because in the beginning before I ever started meditating I would worry all the time and if I ever found myself not worrying I would worry because I wasn’t worrying.

Really that is a tough way to live and I always wanted to learn to meditate so I started out with guided meditation. And I still do some of those today because I may what to visualize something I am looking to do at another time.

You can actually give yourself space, peace, and become a calmer happier person. When I feel myself getting tangled up in the world I always resort back to meditation. You can too by closing your eyes, turning them upward and observing your breathing.

We will continue this series and later go over guided meditation with some suggestions for healing, relaxing, and letting go.

We are one and if I am helping you I am helping myself.

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Namaste’
Rebecca Be

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