meditation-for-beginners

Meditation should be on the same list as brushing your teeth, sleeping and eating. Meditation is an addition to your routine, not a final goal to accomplish. Once meditation is in your routine, then your mind will feel fuzzy if you don__ meditate, in the same way that your teeth feel fuzzy when you don__ brush.

Meditation is a state, often defined as deep dreamless sleep awake. But, in the same way that you cannot sleep on demand, you cannot meditate on demand__hat is, you can__ reach the state instantly in the same way that you can raise your right hand. The practices preceding meditation are relaxation, stillness and mental focus. Those are all things you can do. They are the preparation. Then, if you the circumstances are right, you can transition from the waking to the meditative state.

Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase that honors your belief system can be the linchpin you need for your mediation practice, providing both motivation and philosophical coherency.

If people think they can __o_ meditation, then they become frustrated every time they don__ achieve the state. In the same way that making more of an effort to fall asleep__rying to force yourself to sleep__ften backfires, the meditative state becomes more elusive the more you try. On the other hand, if people understand that meditation is a state, then their only job is to create the right circumstances. They focus on what they can do__elax, sit still, concentrate__nd then sometimes the state comes, while sometimes it does not. Either one is fine.

Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is coming out of the loops of memories, patterns,fears, dreams and anger.

Meditation is a spiritual human activity like mourning, fasting, or praying, and is not limited to one religious group while remaining unavailable to others. (103)

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.

Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.

Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA