Meditation: The Seven Easy How To's!

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August 16, 2007

A great way to seeking your path into enlightenment is through meditation. According to Dictionary.com, meditation is the religious practice of “devout religious contemplation or spiritual introspection”.  It is when you relax, breathe, and take a look at your inner self and being. It is said to be very calming and helps out with stress. 


First thing you should understand is how meditation works. In the article, Learn Meditation in 7 amazingly Easy Steps it tells you how meditation works within your brain and how it is proven through science to benefit you. Meditation works in the brain. You have two hemispheres in your brain; a right and a left. Researchers have claimed that when you meditate the two hemispheres of the brain come together to create a connection.  When this connection is created the waves between the brain are far more stronger than even the most relaxing stages of sleep.

To ready you further, you need to know that there is countless way to meditate. There is so many different techniques, musics, classes, teachings, tutorials, and passages about how to meditate. This will be simple, I promise.

A great tip for when you meditate is how to control your breathing. Controlling your breathing when you meditate is highly important. You will need to concentrate on a rhythmic style of breathing. Which will come in through the nose and out of your mouth. This type of breathing will help with your meditation.

To begin:

Step one: Everyday set aside at least 10-25 minutes once or twice to meditate.

Step two: Find a nice quiet place where you are unlikely to be bothered. Like a private room or somewhere off. It is important to be comfortable, so a comfy place and comfortable clothing would be preferred. You can sit, no need to sit indian style or uncomfortably.

Step three: To keep track of time, set an alarm. While in the middle of meditating you don’t want the alarm to disturb you so I suggest putting the alarm in another room or keeping the volume low, but loud enough to hear.

Step four: Now it’s time to start meditating. Start with slow rhythmic  breaths, while you slowly relax your feet, legs, arms, back, and all of your muscles. By this, your muscles should be loose and relaxed.

Step five: To help yourself concentrate choose a simple but soothing word to repeat, The word “om” is most commonly used. Or a better tactic would be to use a word that you hope to achieve during your meditation. For example; happiness, peace, calm, and etc. Another way to concentrate while meditating, is counting your breathing. Count each breath from 0 to 10.

Side tip: If any thoughts attempt to sneak their way into your head, shoo them out!

Step six:  When your time is up and your alarm rings give yourself time to slowly rise from your meditation. There’s no need to rush to the end. It’ll help you re-enter the world relaxed.

Step seven: When you’re fully relaxed and “awakened” from your meditation begin to stretch and stand up. Slowly but surely you’ll return to your normal pace, but for that twenty or so minutes you were emerged in peace.

I hope this little “How To” helped out a bit. I myself am new to meditation so this was a  first for me. But to help with your future meditation,down below I have embedded a Guided Meditation video. I found it very calming and it surely helped me. Hope you like it!