Learn To Meditate Today

It isn't that difficult to learn to meditate. The more difficult part is to practice regularly. Two ways to meditate follow, and the second one can even make your practice easy enough that motivation to practice comes naturally.

Learn To Meditate - A Simple Exercise

The simplest form of meditation is basic breath-watching. You can do this sitting, laying down, or even standing up. Sitting with legs crossed is the most common way perhaps, because laying down can cause some people to fall asleep. I personally like to do this one standing up outside, usually in front of a mountain, a lake or in some other beautiful setting. In any case, this is a great way to clear your mind, and become a bit more self-aware.

Once you choose a comfortable position, close your eyes and let the tension run out of your muscles as much as possible. This gets easier with practice, and if there is a resistant area, you might find that tensing it up and then releasing it helps you relax.

Begin to breath deeply and slowly through your nose, while paying attention to the breath coming and going. As your mind wanders (it will), just keep bring your attention back to your breath. Continue in this way for about ten to twenty minutes, although if it is difficult, you can start with a five-minute session.

In addition to feeling relaxed when finished, you may find that when you open your eyes you have a new appreciation for the beauty around you. Things may even look a little different. This latter effect may be due to the clearing of your mind. We tend to see things through a mental idea of what they should look like. In any case, it is a very pleasant effect, and this is a very easy way to learn to meditate.

Learn To Meditate
With Brainwave Entrainment

An even easier way to meditate is to simply put a meditation CD that uses brainwave entrainment technology into your player, put on the headphones and hit "play." If you haven't tried these before, my recommendation for the best ones are below. These products use embedded beats (sometimes called "binaural beats") to alter your brainwaves, and so bring them down to the alpha range (8 to 14 hertz, or cycles per second) or the theta range (4 to 8 hertz).

The science is real, and having tried six or more different meditation CDs, I can tell you that these are powerful tools for meditation (I use them for power-naps too). Sit and listen - it doesn't get any easier than that.