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How to Know If You Are Meditating Correctly
I often tell people that meditation is both the easiest and most difficult spiritual practice to master. It is easy in that any one can learn the techniques to meditate. There are also many tools available that will guide your through a meditation session.
Although I enjoy listening to guided meditation CDs at times, I spend the majority of time meditating in silence or with soft music playing in the background. Because I am a Christian, I use meditation as a way to spend quiet time with God as well as for the mental health benefits. Psalms 46:10 says "be still and know that I am God." I believe that it is during these quiet times with God that my spirit is transformed as well as renewed. Other additional benefits for meditation include stress relief, maintaining peace of mind, and controlling negative thinking.
Unlike a guided meditation, during silent meditation you don't have any prompts telling you how to relax your body or a descriptive narrative telling you what to do. It's pretty much up to you to guide yourself, but that is the easy part.
As I said earlier, meditation is easy because anyone can practice it. However, meditation is very difficult because most of us have a hard time quieting our thoughts and keeping our mind from wandering off. Because of this, some people give up prematurely believing that they can't meditate or it is to hard. But let me give you an analogy of what meditation is like, even what you might consider a "bad" meditation.
Have you ever burnt food in a pot? I have on many occasions. This is one of the worst things about cooking. Well, if you are like me you probably fill the pot with water in an effort to soften the burnt food. Later you come back to the pot with a scrub brush in hand and begin to scrub and scrub until you can start to see the bottom of the pan again. It may take you 20, 40, or 60 scrubs with the brush before you get all that debris off. However, with each scrub you are taking off a little bit more until finally, you have a clean pot again.
That is what meditation is like. Each time your mind wanders off and you bring it back to the present by focusing on your breathing, a sacred word or phrase, it is like one scrub of that brush and little by little you learn to quiet your mind and free it from negative and destructive thinking patterns. With continual practice you can learn to control your mind instead of allowing it to control you.
Therefore, you can't meditate incorrectly unless you give up and don't do it at all.
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Permalink Reply by Brad Dunn on -
Meditation is always right, hard to do wrong, whatever technique you use. I've meditated for 15 years and found that a mantra based meditation suits me best. My teacher has taught over 11,000 people to meditate and he gave me a "mantra or secret phrase." This is repeated silently, mentally, as faint as one can think it, and at whatever pace it wants to be repeated at. I have been a meditation teach now for 5 years.
We can actively resist meditating, that is why a CD or mantra meditations help so much. The repetition or other influence keeps things rolling and the mind relaxes, the physiology relaxes, the mind relaxes, the physiology relaxes etc etc and it gets so quiet you may loose time. Do this enough and you do meet God, within your own experience. It's awesome.
Further to what Angel Sereyael has said above; when you find you're of thinking thoughts and seemingly not doing your program, that's still meditation and "great success"... however when you catch yourself out there in thoughts, smile at yourself, then cordially come back to your mantra, be delicate, don't rush, know everything; thoughts, lots of thoughts, mantra/phrase, nothingness, quietness, etc are all apart of successful meditation.
My teacher on his perspective is below, it's very universal:
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Permalink Reply by Star Gazer ~ Cheryl on -
I would like to meditate to tap in to my inner mind, so that more things can be revealed to me......unfortunately, I seem to fall asleep before anything comes through. Admittedly, its late at night when the kids have all gone to bed before I can try to meditate. But, what am I doing wrong? Or is it just an inappropriate time for me to try?
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Permalink Reply by Sirius Star Goddess on -
it would be nice to have a springboard for meditative experiences, no? encouragement, inspiration?
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Admin TeamPermalink Reply by לאדיYshatar (Anunnaki Hybrid) on -
The best time to meditate is when your in a relaxed and clam state, usually after a good nights rest in the morning, that's when I do it, for some reason it works for me, but like said above there is no wrong way to do it really, it's all about silencing yourself and just spending time with your spirit. Even if you fall asleep I am sure you have achieved what you needed by simply being still.
Star Gazer ~ Cheryl said:I would like to meditate to tap in to my inner mind, so that more things can be revealed to me......unfortunately, I seem to fall asleep before anything comes through. Admittedly, its late at night when the kids have all gone to bed before I can try to meditate. But, what am I doing wrong? Or is it just an inappropriate time for me to try?
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Admin TeamPermalink Reply by לאדיYshatar (Anunnaki Hybrid) on -
agreed :)
Sirius Star Goddess said:it would be nice to have a springboard for meditative experiences, no? encouragement, inspiration?
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