Meditation and how to incorporate it in your life
To make better decisions in our life, we need to connect with our soul. For that, we need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of. Because in silence, we can hear the truth and find the solutions. — Deepak Chopra
As a yoga teacher, one of the topics I am often asked about is meditation: where to start and how to make it beneficial in our daily lives.
When we sit in meditation, the mind gets quiet, and we can hear our inner voice, which is always guiding us. Meditation is a practice to train the mind and align with our inner guidance, making us more aware of our thoughts and feelings. Knowing that we are more than our thoughts and physical body reduces the unnecessary clutter of the mind. We create our own thoughts and feelings, and our thoughts and feelings create our future.
Meditation practice is used for calming the mind, increasing focus, deepening our connection with the universe, experiencing a sense of oneness with the higher power, and altering the brain waves.
Finding the best meditation technique is essential. Like every other skill, it needs time and energy. Be patient with yourself and celebrate every step you take towards connecting with your true essence as a human being, which is infinite awareness. Remember that there is no right or wrong way to do it. Just practice to deepen your connection with higher consciousness, increase your frequency in the present moment, and make clear decisions and reactions towards life.
Some Types of Meditation
Guided Meditation
A guiding voice leads you towards visualization. You can use audios from different instructors or YouTube videos. There are many available for increasing frequency, manifestation, and releasing limiting beliefs and thoughts.
Mantra Meditation
Silently repeating calming words or phrases to prevent distracting thoughts can reduce stress and anxiety, increase focus, and aid in manifestation. You can use audios and choose one mantra, like OM or a short affirmation, and use it with your breathing anytime during the day and before sleep.
Mindfulness Meditation
Being mindful or having an increased awareness and acceptance of being in the present moment. It mostly involves observing what you are experiencing during meditation. Mindfulness is a big part of meditation, and many research studies in this field have been changing the world of human psychology.
Being an observer of our own thoughts and emotions and getting better at noticing them won't happen overnight. When you get in touch with the feeling of oneness with source energy, many of the circumstances life brings on your journey won’t trigger you anymore, and your reactions will be clearer and calmer.
Knowing You Are One with Source Energy
Meditations that include relaxation, physical activity, and breathing practices, like tai chi and yoga (which is more a physical meditation than being called an exercise), are beneficial. There are factors required to increase your overall frequency, thereby making changes in our physical world, like enough quality sleep, a clean diet, physical movement, a healthy clean environment, our habits, and consistency. Meditation is a tool that can enhance all these factors.
How to Incorporate Meditation Into Your Life
To sum up the meditative process, you have to break the habit of being yourself and reinvent a new self. Lose your mind and create a new one. Un-memorize past emotions and recondition the body to a new mind and emotions. Let go of the past and create a new future. — Dr. Joe Dispenza
Meditation creates more peace, focus, and appreciation towards life. It helps you understand your mind.
- Start by doing it for even 2 minutes every day first thing in the morning.
- Don’t get caught up in how; just do it.
- Enter your meditation by checking in with your feelings.
- Place attention on your breath. You can count your breaths.
- When you notice your mind wandering, smile and simply return to your breath. Your mind will wander; come back when you notice it wandering. There is no problem with that.
You might feel a little frustration, but it's perfectly okay not to stay focused. Start over. This is a practice; you might not be good at it for a while. Develop a loving attitude towards your practice. When you notice thoughts and feelings arising during meditation, look at them with a friendly attitude. Observe whatever comes up and let them pass.
Don’t worry too much about whether you are doing it wrong. There is no perfect way; just be happy with showing up and doing your best. Don’t worry about clearing the mind. The goal is not to clear your mind or stop your thoughts; just keep your focus on your attention point. Stay with whatever arises and get to know yourself. By giving yourself space for sitting with yourself, you learn a lot about how your mind works. Once you get better at following your breath, practice body scans, focusing your attention on one body part at a time.
Meditation isn’t always easy or peaceful. What is important is that you continue to show up because in the showing up, something begins to happen. The way forward starts with an intention.
