Meditation is a specific approach to training the mind, similar to how fitness approaches the training of the body. But there are so many different meditation techniques - how do you learn to do it, right? In the Buddhist tradition, the word "meditation" is the equivalent of the word "sport" in the Western world. This is a whole group of specific activities and not just one. And different meditation practices require different mental skills. It is challenging for a beginner to sit for hours in one position and not think about anything, or, as they say, have a "pure mind."
There are many specialized tools, for example, meditations explicitly designed for beginners or even devices like sensory headbands. Their goal is to help you in this process when you do not have your own experience. In general, it can be said that the easiest way to start meditating is by focusing on breathing. It serves as an example of one of the most common approaches to meditation - through concentration.
Concentration meditation
Meditation on concentration means focusing on one point. This may be followed by a proposal to monitor your breathing, repeat a word or mantra, watch, without stopping, at the flame of a candle, or listen to a repeating gong sound. Focusing on the mind is not an easy task, it may be enough for a beginner to meditate, literally, for several minutes, and then, over time, increase the duration.
With this form of meditation, you simply switch the focus of attention to the object of your choice each time you notice how your mind is distracted. Instead of clinging to random thoughts, you just let them go. Through this process, your ability to concentrate improves.
Mindfulness meditations
Mindfulness meditations challenge to observe wandering thoughts as they flow through your mind. The intention here is not to immerse yourself in these thoughts or evaluate them, you just need to be aware of every mental movement as they appear. Through mindfulness meditation, you will be able to see how your thoughts and emotions replace each other following familiar patterns. Over time, you will begin to notice a better human tendency to immediately evaluate an event as good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant.
The benefits of meditation
Even though relaxation is not the immediate goal of meditation, it often becomes its result. The relaxation reaction is a spontaneous, uncontrolled reaction, leading to a decrease in the sympathetic nervous system's activity with the following short-term benefits:
From Buddhist philosophy, the maximum benefit that meditation can bring is the liberation of the mind from devotion to things outside its sphere of control, such as external circumstances or strong internal emotions. A person who has attained liberation or enlightenment no longer follows his desires unnecessarily and does not focus on a specific experience. He merely consistently maintains a state of a calm mind and a sense of inner harmony.
How to meditate - a simple guide for beginners
This meditation exercise is a great way to get to know the techniques of meditation:
We can strive for our own peace consciously or unconsciously, but the inner world really often acts as a motivator of our actions. We are always drawn to do what gives us pleasure and makes life easier. Even if we are talking about very destructive behavior, still the goal with us, as a rule, is "to make us feel better."
Try to imagine inner peace as a spiritual savings account. Every time you come across precisely what you felt you should have done already, be sure to pay attention to this; if put off for later, these seemingly insignificant questions subconsciously deprive you of spiritual energy. And when you do realize what seems necessary to you, an increase in personal peace of mind is observed every time.
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Dream on! Do not look back at anyone! No matter how small your dream may be, it is yours. Realize it, and vision it. Significant for you. Dream after dream! Dream after dream!
Remember what you dreamed about. After all, you once dreamed! Everybody dreamed that he would grow up and achieve success. You will become someone important, significant. You will be a scientist, artist, doctor, famous athlete, an astronaut at last. You dreamed of travelling around the world, making a bunch of discoveries, creating a masterpiece, leaving a memory about yourself, or simply not knowing how yet, but dreamed that you would definitely be happy. And then, for some reason, you stopped. You became an adult.
It is not "universal law of life, the universe and all that", but it provides an excellent frame for understanding why some communications work, and others do not, and why building a community sometimes does not work out ... Or it comes out, but it falls apart although people have a shared experience and ideology, and even everyone is familiar with everyone.
Did you ever wonder what the contrasts are between chakras and aura? Or how do they work together? The concept of aura - the luminous energy shell of a person - was introduced by the ancient Indian sages. They believed that the aura could tell about a person's sensual or spiritual thoughts and say about his state of health and that all beliefs are imprinted on his shell. The aura was represented as a field of energy - information that everyone has and through which is a connection with the outside world.
The child's familiarization with the world of adults, with their activities, with the world of feelings and emotions, that is, with all that society lives on. It is a task that humankind has been solving since it became necessary to pass on the previous generation's experience. The child gains the first social experience in the family. The content and nature of this social experience depend on the spiritual wealth of the parents, on the moral and life values of the whole family, on the understanding by the parents of the responsibility to the baby for the "quality of socialization" that they will provide him.
We often hear the phrase "All diseases from the nerves." Most people do not take it seriously. But is it worth it to be so frivolous and skeptical about its meaning? Perhaps this particular postulate is the key to understanding the causes of various diseases?
The soul of a person does not just put on his body, but they become one. The soul is not in the body, like a person in clothes. No! Soul and body, this one - living flesh. Only our consciousness divides them into two. That means that everything, literally all the organs of the body correspond to the spiritual organs of the soul. The body organs do not just correspond to the organs of the soul; they are united with them by a fantastic complete unity, which is not in the physical world.
Sometimes even the biggest sceptics are faced with something that cannot be explained by anything other than magic.
When miracles are happening in our life, then we fundamentally changing our fate. As befits miracles, they arrived when you least expect them. Well, or when you realize that only magic can help you.
Next to friends, we learn to show attention and support, and we get it in return. Each person has different ideas about friendship.
For some, friendly communication is limited by common interests, for example, friends go fishing together, and girlfriends go shopping. Usually, friends spend birthdays together, share news, and always keep in touch. Sometimes, when friends are far apart, they just call back or chat. Others believe that friendship is a concept around the clock, and if you called a friend in the middle of the night and did not help you, this is not a reliable friend at all.
And yet, there are general parameters by which you can judge whether your relationship is friendship.
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