Meditation Made Easy.

Meditation Made Easy.

While this is the classic image of meditation we tend to see it is easy to think meditation is a passive thing, or something difficult and even other-worldly.

Mediation is a process of thinking deliberately about somethings and excluding others, sometimes deepening into a state of thoughtlessness.

If that sounds impossible, I promise it is not and if I can teach TK I swear I can teach anyone!

It is far more important to meditate for short amount of time daily than try and achieve deep meditative states once a week.

3 and a half steps to success.  

If you follow these simple steps for a few minutes everyday the benefits of meditation (which are many and beginning to be documented scientifically) you too will be able to meditate. Firstly don't do too long when you first start, 5 to 10 minutes of a morning is the best way to stick at it.

Step 1 

You can't breathe in without first exhaling. I don't care how you sit or lie but a straight spine is useful and when you are first learning a quiet room is useful. Now you sharply and deeply exhale while drawing your bellybutton towards your spine. This sets you up to breathe deeply into your belly. Breathe deeply and try and focus only on breathing 5 deep belly breaths. 

Step 2

Your focus. This can be a great many things, even simply the darkness before your own closed eyes. I wrote a whole book about it (find it here it is really good) so there are thousands of different kinds. Let us start with a bowl of water. Place the bowl before you and focus on it, observe it to the exclusion of everything, including thoughts. Let your gaze soften so the rest of the room goes all blurry and smooshy. Close your eyes and try and "see" the bowl with your mind's eye. If you can't simply open your eyes and return to contemplating.

Step 3

Add in the word PEACE to your mind. Keep contemplating the bowl both inside and before you. Try and accept (with the breath is good) peace and as you exhale gently allow peace to radiate from you. This part can be tricky to start with but it does get easier after a couple of days.

And a half

This is the part most folks don't do terribly well. This is where for a couple of minutes everyday especially when your shoulders begin to rise, your hands and jaw get tight and you feel the stress creeping in, STOP. Go take an couple of minutes. On the loo, in the break room, outside, at your desk, where ever you are. Close your eyes. Exhale drawing your bellybutton to your spine and taking 3-5 deep breaths. Then remember the bowl of water before you. Remember radiating peace with your breath. How soft your face was. How soft your hands. 

In a pinch just do the breathing.

Health benefits

The health benefits for meditation are amazing. You don't need expensive tools or to be especially fit or mobile. Meditation changes the brain (there are some great new studies about this). Grey matter changes and new more efficient path ways are made within the brain. It can help to detangle unhealthy or traumatic thought or neuron path ways or even reduce parts of the brain that have grown bigger due to stress and trauma reduce in size and density. Check out about the Harvard study here.

I hope this has been helpful and you remember to check out the video on youtube here of this meditation 

Bright Blessings xx

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