Top 8 Meditation Tips to Help You If You Get Stuck
As I’m sure you are well aware, there are tons of wonderful benefits when it comes to meditation. Your life can improve so much through regular meditation – from feeling more relaxed and less anxious, to being able to concentrate more and experience more creativity.
If you’re having trouble getting started or maintaining your focus, then the following meditation tips can help you out!
Tip #1: Start small. Meditate for small increments of time, just 5-10 minutes and then build up from there.
Tip #2: Be consistent. With this meditation tip, you want to turn your meditation into a regular habit that you perform every day at around the same time each day.
Tip #3: Take enjoyment out of it! You need to feel some kind of reward or benefit from your meditation. If you’re not enjoying it, try experimenting with different techniques until you find the method that works best for you.
Tip #4: Don’t be too hard on yourself. If you do miss a session or you can’t hold your focus, don’t judge yourself. You’re only human and even meditation gurus have trouble from time to time.
Tip #5: Keep your meditation simple. Don’t try overly complicated techniques or using too many different meditation objects, just try focusing on your breath and going from there.
Tip #6: Sit in a comfortable position. Keep your spine straight but make sure that your body feels good. You don’t have to be able to twist yourself into a pretzel in order to practice effective meditation.
Tip #7: Accept whatever thoughts and feelings come your way. This meditation tip goes along with #4. When you meditate, try not to assign any feelings, positive or negative, to the thoughts that come into your head. Simply allow them to be whatever it is that they are.
Tip #8: Close your eyes. Many people, especially meditation neophytes, find that they are able to concentrate with greater ease if they keep their eyes closed.
Meditation is a practice that pretty much anyone can do. It doesn’t require any start up materials and you can perform it in the comfort of your own home. Plus, there are tons of meditation tips out there that can help you along the way, should you get stuck or encounter any road blocks.
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Rachel, the owner of Your Best Meditation.com, is a traveler, marketer, and lover of adventure. She started meditating a few years ago, while living in Brazil, and has REALLY enjoyed the benefits of meditation since then. With regular meditation, Rachel reports feeling more calm, at peace, relaxed… and having a greater sense of “knowing”. That being said, she doesn’t always remember to meditate… … and is working on practicing more often. She finds that guided meditations help a lot, though. It can be really difficult to get still yourself, so having someone point you in the direction you want to take is priceless. When not meditating, Rachel has several other passions. Her interests range from reading, traveling, belly dancing, psychology, yoga, Toastmasters, and everything in between.Subscribe
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