Easy Meditation Techniques -
Tips on How To Meditate and Still The Mind

Contents List for Easy Meditation Techniques:

• A Common Spiritual Pitfall When Learning Meditation 

• Make Learning Meditation Fun and Rewarding
• Meet The Thoughts: I Am No Good At Meditating. I Can't Meditate

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• Watch the Breath
• Repeat A Mantra

• See Thoughts As Clouds Meditation
• Buy Guided Meditations - Let Someone Help you Meditate
• A Poem about Meditation
• Sitting In Silence is Already Good - The Benefits of Silence
• Words to take you into silence
  

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A Common Spiritual Pitfall When Learning Meditation

There is a common spiritual pitfall when learning meditation: we tell ourselves we are not meditating the right way.

Actually that thought really is fine. It’s the next thought that's a problem. The one where we add guilt or self-condemnation, or hopelessness - I can't meditate!

Great! What is the fastest way to make yourself stop wanting to persevere in learning meditation? – Make the experience of learning unpleasant for yourself, tell yourself you can't do it.

We can be rather good at doing this can't we. :-)

Here are some easy meditation techniques to help you to be kind to yourself.

If you are a total beginner, follow the link below to Eoin’s site for more instructions on learning meditation.
The tips for meditation below will help you to move forward in your practice

Easy Meditation Techniques, Number 1:

Identify what you are doing well in learning meditation and focus on that:

If you find it hard to find something you are doing well, imagine what you would say to someone else you wanted to encourage in learning meditation.

For example...

• Wow, you are setting aside time for a spiritual practice. That’s great.


• You believe there is an experience of Oneness/Connection with God/Presence that you can access through this practice. What a great belief to explore and work with.


• Perhaps it is more than belief for you. How great to know yourself as part of All That Is.


• You are taking a time to be silent and to be still. That is so valuable.


• How lovely that you are interested in learning something new.


• How great to learn a skill that nurtures you, energises you, increases your creativity, your vitality, your depth of spiritual connection. What a loving thing to do for yourself.


• How fantastic to learn a skill that helps you to remain more centred and resourced for other people in your life. I’m sure it will help them too.

Easy Meditation Techniques, Number 2:

You may know how it is. We sit down to meditate. Our thoughts go to something else and we say: I’m just no good at meditating, I can't meditate.

What can you do to bring the mind back to silence?

Notice the thought.
Step back from it in your mind.
Replace the thought gently with the thought:
“I am good at meditating and getting better all the time.”

Then return your focus to the breath, the mantra, the candle, the flower, or whatever means you using to still your thoughts.

This can be a easy meditation technique to regain our sense of humour and bring us back to our meditation.

To give you some more easy meditation techniques, I am sharing this extract from an article by Eoin Meegan. I love the way it expresses a very human, compassionate and patient approach to learning meditation.

With Eoin’s kind permission, there are a few minor changes. You can see the full, original version at unscripted-self.com.

Back to Katherine Owen:
Thank you so much to Eoin for sharing his spiritual wisdom.

Easy Meditation Techniques, Number 6:

Instead of learning the discipline of meditating alone, you can use guided meditations to get the same benefits and allow someone else to guide you.

When I was living with severe CFS/ME I had to find ways to live in silence and stillness.
I relied on guided meditations.
They allowed me to escape my body and explore a rich inner world.

Easy Meditation Techniques, Number 7:

Even if you end up sitting in silence listening to a chattering mind, you have still achieved something.

You are not adding to the noise in your mind.

Many people live such busy and such noisy lives, they don't even hear the chatter.
There can be gifts in the chatter too.

If, for now, you find you are not a great meditator (what is a great meditator?), remember that it can be compassionate to simply give yourself time to catch up on the thoughts that come into your mind when you stop external noise for a moment.

How about setting aside 15 minutes a little while before your designated meditation time.

Sit in silence.
Any time you think of something you need to do or think about, jot it down on paper.
Now close your eyes and return to the silence.

If you end up going into meditation, then great.

If not, then stop when it feels right.

When you meditate a little later on, you may find that you have cleared your mind of many of those things that would bring distraction to your meditation.

Here is one of my poems on meditating badly!

Easy Meditation Techniques, Number 7:

Words to take you into silence

Articles related to easy meditation techniques:

• Finding peace – Spiritual Relaxation Techniques. These can be a good preparation for a time of meditation. Spiritual quotes on rest, silence and stillness help you accept your thoughts, accept your life as it is, and bring yourself into the present moment.
  
• The Serenity Prayer – a prayer of acceptance
  

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