How Much Should You Meditate

Posted on July 10, 2012 by admin

Meditation is such an awesome tool in the mental health arena as it helps you focus your mind, your thoughts and your direction. The challenge though in knowing how much you should meditate is really dependent on how you feel each day and the purpose in which you are using the meditation.

At the very least, it is recommended that you commit to at least one meditation session of at least 20 minutes a day to help bring your mind to focus but to also help relax you. The best time to do your meditation session is in the morning prior to the rush of the day.

The core reason in doing it early is so that you can relax the mind before the pressure of the day and it will help keep you in a state of calm. The morning session will also help prepare you deal with things you may not have been expecting.

You should always remember that you should meditate at any time when you feel stressed or out of control. Meditating at this point will help you bring yourself back under control and into a state of calm, allowing you to deal with the situation more effectively.

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The Role of Guided Meditation?

Posted on June 10, 2012 by admin

The purpose and essence of Meditation is to assist you in developing an inner peace, calmness, a sense of tranquillity. Meditation is about guiding you in the direction to grow. Way too often people have this perception that meditation as a hippy thing, or only something those people from the 60′s psychedelic duds do however meditation is about helping you with your mind and the way in which your mind influences your life.

The role of guided meditation is about someone guiding you through the process of meditation. It should help you to achieve an outcome of some description. Most people associate meditation with simply sitting on the floor with your eyes closed going Hummm. Humm. Whilst in a Tibetan Monestary this may certainly be the manner in which meditation is done is this day and age this is not the outcome we are looking for and would in essence be totally useless.

Meditation must have a clear purpose.

For example, what is the purpose of getting a job?

Well essentially the purpose of getting a job is to help you gain money so that you can buy a house or car, get food to eat or go on a holiday. If you did not have a purpose for a job, why would you work? You would not!

Meditation is exactly the same. You need to have a purpose when you meditate. The purpose for meditation can be varied for example you could meditate to -

#1. Find Inner Peace
#2. To Bring About Focus
#3. To Relax
#4. To Help You Change Your State of Mind
#5. Improve Creativity and Learning
#6. Help Build Your Confidence and Self-Esteem
#7. To Focus on Self-Healing
#8. To Help Control Internal and External Pain
#9. Meditate to Overcome Your Fears

There really are unlimited reasons for why you would want to meditate. The objective of guided meditation is to help you take the right meditation path to achieve those objectives.

Choosing a Meditation Guide is really an important step you need to make. For example different meditation experts and practitioners will have different techniques and will guide you through different paths depending on what you are trying to achieve.

The majority of meditation practitioners will teach you deep breathing meditations when you first start because if you do not know how to relax and maintain focus, then the other meditation paths will certainly not work. Remember one thing, every meditation guide will be different and I recommend that before paying a meditation guide to help you, try to see if they will give you a free lesson.

What I have found in the past is that every meditation practitioner is different and I have even found the meditation practitioners from the one meditation centre can vary dramatically in the guiding process, so you need to find the guide who best works for you. Let me give an example of what I mean. I am always on the lookout for new ideas and thoughts when it comes to meditation and I recently purchased a Chakra meditation cd which included a guided meditation program. I put the cdrom into my computer and within the first five minutes of listening to it, I burst out laughing simply because the voice was digitally altered and was totally unreal. For me this guided meditation tool was never going to work as I could not take it seriously. Now for some people this particular meditation cd may have worked and they may think totally differently about the meditation cd. For me it did not work.

There are many different style of guided meditation. If you goto your local bookstore or check out the internet you will find an abundance of guided meditation cd’s, dvd’s and videos. Before you rush out and buy them, I strongly encourage you to see if there is sample of what they offer just to see if their guided meditation is what you are after. Any good quality meditation programs, will offer you some sort of limited look at their products so that you can see if they will work for you. If you are going to a health retreat or meditation centre for a guided meditation experience, find out if they offer a Free Introductory CDROM of their program. Always try these out first because there is nothing worse to go to a meditation retreat only to find out it does not suit you.

One thing I recommend to everyone is to try out meditation before you goto to any of these retreats even if you just try out the Deep Breathing Meditation exercises. Meditation does take practice and the more practice you do the better you will get at it. Some people when they first go to guided meditation programs do not get the outcomes they expect, not because the programs do not work, but simply because they do not realise it does take practice to master meditation.

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Meditations – Trusting Your Own Inner Instincts and Your Innerself

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

Meditations have a funny way of bringing out your own inner beliefs and values during a meditation session. For example, one belief you have had for ten years can be literally wiped away when you first start to meditate. Often your own inner messenger will bring new meaning to your life and it is important that you use these inner instincts to help you become a better person.

There are some simple meditations that will help you to bring out that inner messenger. The first step in this meditation is to find a quiet place to meditate. Sit on the floor and cross your legs if you can. (This meditation is better undertaken sitting on the floor). I should note that this meditation should not be undertaken with meditation music, it is best done in a silent room.

The next step is to close your eyes, your back should be straight and your shoulders straight, and finally your head should also be upright. Now, the next step is to start breathing lightly but smoothly. Continue the light breathing and slowly make it deeper. The breathing meditation should be undertaken for five minutes until your mind is clear and focused.

To unleash your inner instincts we must now follow the inner messenger visualization process. In your mind visualize a small corridor painted white from the floor, roof and side walls. See the corridor in front of you. Walk down the brilliant white corridor till you come to an opening on your left side. Walk through the opening into a beautiful white room and sit on the floor in this glowing white room. Whilst you are in this room you will feel safe and secure.

You are alone in this room and you will hear no sound. After you have spent a few moments in that room you will feel a presence come into the room. This presence is in fact a part of you, it is your inner messenger. Your inner messenger will sit with you. This is your opportunity to ask questions of your inner self. When you ask each question, stop and wait for the answer. You will be surprised with the answers and be aware they may take a little while to come but keep your mind open and focused. Feel free to ask yourself any questions at all, the answers your innerself may share may surprise you but always maintain focus.

When you are finished with your innerself, simply walk out the room and turn to the right up the brilliant hall way. This meditation can take as long or as short as you like. Remember to take a little time after this meditation to simply relax and reflect on the information your innerself has shared with you.

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