How do you meditate?
There are thousands of ways.
The important thing is to not try. Trying to meditate stops the process of relaxing. Allow the process to just happen!
For me, meditating took a looooong time of:
trying …
reading about it …
trying …
giving up for a while …
reading some more …
trying walking meditation …
(Felt silly to me, how can you meditate when you have to watch where you are going?)
giving up for a very long while again …
learning about guided meditation and self-hypnosis …
tried it nearly every day for a month …
and then one day, I got it.
I learned to really relax. To allow. To be okay when your mind starts to chatter (it could be messages that your guides are trying to get to you).
Then I remembered a past life where I taught a completely different kind of meditation. That day, I really got how it meditation worked. Finally.
The best advice I ever read was that you can meditate for one minute.
A minute is easy.
Here is how: Focus on your breath. (And since I like to give my brain something to do …) I say to myself, “Breathe in love, breathe out fear” as I inhale and exhale. Just start with one minute.
The cool part of this short meditation is that you can do it anywhere – waiting in line, waiting for the microwave to beep, etc.
Try it. Take a minute. Let me know how it goes.
(I hope your attempts at understanding meditation goes faster for you. It took me years.)
Thank you for inspiring this blog post Shree!