5 Successful Meditation Strategies

Posted by admin on October 26, 2009

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We all know how difficult meditation can be.  Be it the beginner or the seasoned guru, getting started, staying focused and being successful can sometimes pose a challenge. Consider these tested strategies before throwing in the towel. Remember, meditation takes practice and time.

1. Guided meditation - I had my first successful meditation using a guided meditation cd by a world renowned psychic medium. The undeniable experiences I had changed my life forever.

Before I found guided meditation,  I read all kinds of books and tried to follow all the steps and breathing and it got me nowhere. I suppose if I had  gotten somewhere I wouldn’t of known what to expect anyway.

One book would say , “calmness, tranquility and peace is what you will find” while another would say, “you should be out of your body flying around and experiencing bliss.”

BLAHHH! It was all to complicated and meditation should not be complicated. Let me recommend to you the very tool that landed me one of the most amazing experiences that I have ever had, experiences that continue today while I’m not meditating, and occasionally while I am awake and asleep.

Again, This tool set me on my path  and has changed my life forever. This tool really works and shortly, when I am done writing the post, I’ll explain to you how it works and why. I’ll also tell you why I think you should go to amazon and spend the 20 bucks and get it for you or for someone who needs a gift.

2. Follow your wandering mind: A lot of people starting out have problems quieting their mind. This can be as frustrating as trying to harness your breathing.

Tell me you haven’t been down this road before.

You lie there in bed, trying like mad to keep a completely thoughtless mind only to catch yourself thinking about trying not to think.

Try this next time, let your thoughts flow on their own. Don’t constrain your minds attempt to purge the days thoughts. Simply let the thoughts flow and let them melt away as quickly as they appear, especially the stress related ones. I like to think of meditation as nourishment for the mind. When you lay down and prepare to meditate, your subconscious chimes in and triggers a very necessary thought purge. I see no reason to stop your mind from purging this energy. Just make a conscious attempt to acknowledge the thought and move on to a new thought. End your meditation on a peaceful thought, not a bad thought.

3. Breath your way not theirs: I had the hardest time with breathing. Even the guided meditation from step one attempted to force you to breath a certain way. “Breath in 1…2..3…4..5…6….Hold.1..2…3…Breath out…1..2….3..4…5..6”

Oh forget it!! Find your own rhythm and stick to that. Play by the rules though, the goal is develop good pranic breathing, which means it needs to be steady and consistent. Eventually you’ll find yourself on autopilot and not out of breath.

4. Create your own guided walk through This is a fun project that anyone with a computer can do and I hope to expand on this down the road. The idea is to create your own 30 minute guided meditation. Since we won’t be selling these guided meditations or giving them away, we can probably get away with finding a good track from iTunes or something, creating a personal script and then combining the two together using you a microphone and your computers sound card.

I started doing this when I found that other meditation cd’s and guided meditations simply did not last long enough. Most meditation cd’s last about seventy five minutes and finding a decent guided meditation that lasts seventy five minutes are far and few between.

Believe it or not, you may find yourself meditating (not sleeping) for well over two hours at any given time someday if you don’t already. How about that? If you are like me and you like the guided meditations, then you’ll have to eventually create your own.

5. Reduce your meditation time - I would rather have fifteen minutes of good meditation time than two hours of bad meditation time. If you find yourself having trouble, with the time, then start small and work your way up. Think about five minutes of simply relaxing and taking in the moment rather than trying to achieve the moment through forced breathing, forced relaxation techniques and trying to shut up your inner voice. When its time to meditate again, give yourself 10 minutes to relax and take in the moment, try not to fall asleep.

Meditation is like body building. It takes time to develop and it probably won’t happen over night.