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Get Meditation Benefits Fast — 4 Easy Tips

October 27th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Want to get the benefits of meditation fast? You can, and it can be simpler than you imagine. In this article we provide four tips which will help.

Firstly, let’s look at what some common benefits of meditation are. They can include stress relief, enhanced memory, happiness, better sleep, and pain relief.

If you’re using pain relief and other medication, meditation may help you to reduce your dose, or even to forgo the medication entirely as your health improves — but be advised by your doctor.

You get these benefits whether or not you meditate “correctly.”

Here’s how to get the benefits of meditation fast.

1. Count Your Breaths — an Easy Meditation for Beginners

You’ll get the benefits quickly if you meditate every day. Start off with just five minutes, and as you enjoy your sessions, increase the time you spend to 20 minutes per day. Let your own experience be the guide.

The easiest meditation for beginners is breath counting. Count your inhalations, from one to four, and then start at one again.

2. Release Your Expectations: Yes, You’re Doing It Right

It’s important that you release your expectations for the results of meditation. You’ll get the benefits, but just treat your meditation sessions as being some time you spend with yourself.

Novice meditators sometimes feel as if their mind becomes more stressed and active when they meditate, but that’s not so. You just become aware of how stressed you are. Let your thoughts about success or failure go, and just go back to counting your breaths.

3. Use the Extra Energy to Make Changes in Your Life — Follow Your Instincts

One of the first benefits of regular meditation is increased energy. You’ll also find that you get more hunches about what you should be doing. These intuitive impulses are emotion free (this is one way to distinguish them from wishful thinking). They’re gentle nudges, and if you ignore them, they’ll return.

4. Meditate Anywhere

Our final tip is to remember that you can meditate anywhere, with your eyes open. Just start counting your breaths. When you focus on your breathing, you can get instant stress relief. You’ll find that situations which formerly would upset you, no longer do, and you’re much more effective in your life.

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One-Minute Meditations You Can Do Anytime

October 22nd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Want an easy way to get stress relief any time you wish? You may know that meditation is a great way to relax, but feel it’s too difficult for you. Here are some great, easy one-minute meditations which work anywhere.

Firstly, let’s discover what meditation actually is. Meditation is just being — it’s not thinking about anything, or doing anything. It begins with a form of relaxed concentration. As you focus on something, stress drops away.

Here are four three simple one-minute meditations.

1. Breath Counting — Easy

You can do this anywhere, with your eyes open or closed. Just breathe, and count your breaths in this way. Inhale deeply (without straining), counting ONE. Exhale. Inhale again, counting TWO, exhale. Inhale again, counting THREE, exhale. Inhale again, counting FOUR. Exhale. Repeat, inhaling and exhaling, starting your count again at ONE.

2. Choose a Sanskrit Mantra Which Appeals to You

Sanskrit mantras are powerful. They’ve been used for thousands of years to change lives of people who use them.

Repeat “Om Shanti Om” or just “Om”, which is pronounced “Aaaummm”, for a few minutes, with your eyes open or closed, and you’ll feel much more relaxed. If you’re going into a stressful situation, just keep repeating the mantra to yourself.

3. Photo Meditation from Your Favorite Vacation Location

If you’ve been on a relaxing vacation, look through your photos. If you have one photo which brings the ease of the vacation back to you, use the photo as a focus of a one-minute meditation.

Look at the photo, and imagine yourself in the scene.

4. Belly-Breathing at Traffic Lights

Driving becomes more enjoyable when you use traffic lights as a way to relax.

When you’re stopped at a traffic light, start belly-breathing. This is similar to breath counting, but you’re focused on your tummy area, around two inches below your navel.

Your belly expands with each inhale, and relaxes with each exhalation.

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Stress relief with relaxation meditation

August 3rd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

This remarkably easy and relaxing meditation makes use of a little-known secret about the eyes. It’s idea for almost instant stress relief.

Allowing the eyes to rest in a soft downward gaze has an instant, automatic relaxing effect.

Relaxation meditation provides a great deal of stress reduction and can be used as a quick 2 minute relax and refresh break almost anywhere. You will also realize a heightened sense of alertness.

Sit comfortably with your spine reasonably straight.

Allow your eyes to rest comfortably downward, gazing softly, but not focused on anything.

Without closing your eyes completely, let your eyelids drop to a level that feels most comfortable.

Continue gazing downward… the act of gazing is your primary focus (rather than the area at which you are gazing). You may notice your breathing becoming more rhythmic.

It’s ok to let your attention drift a bit. If your eyes become very heavy, it’s ok to let them close. If you notice you’ve come out of your relaxed space, simply bring your attention back to your relaxed downward gaze.

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