How do you meditate?
There are thousands of ways.
The important thing is to not try. Trying stops the process of relaxing. Allow instead.
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. Sigh. 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!