5 Tips For Powerful Meditations
Meditating is a powerful tool. It calms you, connects you with source, clears your mind and leaves you more centered. It helps you make better decisions, become healthier, change bad habits and negative thought patterns.
With all variations and levels of meditation, many people ask the question “Am I doing it right?”.
While there are no right or wrong ways to meditate, here are 5 pointers that will help you get the most out of your meditations.
1. Make it a habit – meditation, like any skill, takes practice. The more you put it into your routine and make it a daily habit, the more effective it will be. You will also see results quicker. The best would be to be meditate twice a day, before bed and in the morning.
2. Have a comfortable safe place to meditate – using the same place, where you will not be interrupted and one where you feel calm and safe will help you focus and concentrate. It will be easier to meditate if you are used to your surroundings so that nothing new distracts you.
3. Breathe Properly – Many of us don’t know it, but we do not breathe properly. To use your lungs to full capacity, its important to breathe from your diaphragm. When you take a deep breath in, your stomach should expand, and when you exhale, start from the bottom and push the air out with your diaphragm. If you find your shoulders moving up and down, you are breathing incorrectly.
4. Have a purpose – Meditation is an active practice. Its important to have a goal of each meditation, that way you know what to focus on. It can be as simple as relaxation, changing habits, realizing a goal or for more advanced meditators, you can use this time to delve into your subconscious and eliminate negative beliefs, find your purpose in life. The possibilities are endless.
5. Be sure to bring your mind back to focus when it wanders – its inevitable for beginners. Your mind will wander and thats ok. Just gently bring it back to focus and don’t be too hard on yourself. Over time it will become easier to meditate.