Read my guide: http://www.dreamviews.com/meditation...appy-free.html
I am far from an expert on meditation, I originally started doing it because I suffered from overactive thoughts and self-pitty. But when I found peace through meditation and realized that it does alot more for your life than just achieving a peace of mind, I just enjoyed to share my truth.
Anyway, most of it is covered in my guide. But my main point in the guide is that it doesn't really matter WHAT you do for meditation, you can visualize, focus on your breath a mantra, pray, focus on the light of a flame from a candle, the importance is not on what kind of meditation you do. I used to sit on a chair and feel frustrated because I got so bored and my thoughts was all over the place and I saw no point in just sitting there doing nothing, I also had the reocurring problem of falling asleep. But when I had been exposed to alot of good mindsets from reading and had just decided to accept all my thoughts and just sit on the chair for 20 min and starijng into the wall I finally understood what was missing.
I accepted everything, I said "Fine it's ok if I get bored, have thoughts, fall asleep or whatever problem that arise, I don't care I am going to sit here for 20 min even how stupid it might feel."
Even my friends went in and wondered what was wrong with me, but I accepted that as well, I just said trust me there is something to this, it has been done for thousands of years after all... Then one day it just happened, my mind was clear, I realized what my overactive thoughts had done to my mind and I cried in happiness because I was finally free from my self created prison.
But again it's not WHAT I did, it's HOW I did it. I practised being deeply focused and accepting everything instead of being frustrated, and when I let go of everything all that was left was my pure awareness and default state of mind. I felt like a kid again happy for NO reason what so ever, just because I was aware of the now. It can't be explained fully in words, it has to be experienced.
I realized that the thing people do to get self-esteem these days are freaking crazy. Adult people base their self-esteem on circumstances and external and material things like clothes, likes on facebook, followers on instagram, view on youtube and the latest of the latest. When I was a kid I was happy just by looking at a tree because it was beautiful, I was happy by just jumping on a sidewalk because my creativity and non-judgement allowed me to play. I also had a better vision because I was fully in the now.
The day I learned what meditation was about, I found the internal happiness in me that had been missing since I was a kid, and is sadly missing in most adults today.
Anyway what I did was to simply focus on my breath and staring into a white wall while sitting on a chair.
Isn't it ironic that people pursuit their happiness from without when it has always been within. It's what our consumer culture is based on, although I am not against it, we need consumers for a healthy economy, but it's not healthy for our minds. People want quick fixes and magic pills, instead of adventurous journeys and processes.
I think I have to stop here, I got carried away...
Anyway this is why I meditate
But remember it's the mindset not the type of action that changes it all.
If you are a beginner I would suggest that you look on Youtube and search for "One moment meditation", practise that and then prolong the time from 1 min to 5 to 10 to 20. I use an alarm on my iphone.
Just like for any activity it takes a little time to get into the flow while doing it. There is no exact answer but for me it took around 17 minutes to achieve that complete deep focus for the first time. With time and practise you can shorten this byy being more focused and present in general.
I hope this helped you to get the gist of what meditation is about.
Peace
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