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How to Meditate For A healthy Mind And Body

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Learning how to meditate is the same practice among many various cultures and religions. This stays true in every aspect of practicing meditation, from learning how to breathe properly, proper posture, when to meditate, picking the correct environment, planning your meditation and understanding our thoughts and emotions. When you are just learning how to meditate don’t worry too much about every little thing. Before you can begin to unwrap the many years of programming you will have to create within yourself a great desire and sense of urgency to want to change. It is necessary that you learn how to meditate the right way to get the most from your meditation experience.

Pick Your Environment

Find a room that is quiet and free from distractions and noise. Find a comfortable area that gives you a feeling of peace and serenity. The room you choose will begin to absorb the energy you create during your meditations so if at first you don’t have a perfect spot don’t fret you will be programing the spot you choose. This will help you to reach a deeper state of meditation in a shorter amount of time as you continue to program your meditation area

When Should You Meditate

It’s a good idea to pick a consistent time each day to meditate. A good time to meditate would be in the morning before you’ve been bombarded with the stresses and demands of your day. Our daily responsibilities put us under a lot of stress and the demands make it harder for us to have a good meditation when we try to meditate and relax. Be consistent with yourdaily morning ritual and you will notice that your day will unfold in a much different joyful pattern.

A Meditation Plan

You must choose your meditation plan when you are just beginning. You must be in the right frame of mind to have a productive meditation. Don’t meditate as soon as you get home from a long day because you will wind up spending too much time trying to relax your mind and body. A good idea would be to take a short walk to decompress from the demands of your day. If you are tired than maybe you can take a cool shower or even an energizing fresh fruit drink. It is very important to approach your meditations with the best mindset and will help you get the most out of your meditations.

Best Position

There are many different positions you can use when you are meditating but when you are just learning how to meditate it is best if you were in a seated position. Sit on the floor on a cushion or in a chair that has a straight back. Picture the energy traveling from the ground through your body and out through your head. Envision an invisible string attached to your head, which is pulling your body upright. This will give the energy a free flowing channel to travel through

Gently place your hands on your lap with your fingers relaxed and spread apart slightly. Tuck you chin down and begin to relax you jaw and your tongue. With your mouth open slightly put your tongue against the roof of your mouth. With half open eyes look out and relax your vision by seeing but not really focusing on anything. Focus you awareness and picture yourself in a trance-like state. Do the same thing with any sounds you hear, you notice the sounds but you don’t give them any importance. They become a background symphony for the experience of the meditation, having no more importance than the background noises we hear and ignore all day long.

The Breath

When you begin to learn how to meditate you will notice that your mind is jumping rapidly from thought to thought as our minds struggle to gain control once more. You must learn to let go of these thoughts and focus your attention on your breath. To stay focused on your meditation it is a good idea to count your breaths. As you breathe deep into your belly and then breathe out consider this a count of one. Begin by counting a series of 15 to 20 breaths, this will be long enough to help you to quiet your monkey mind. Breath in prana energy and breath out stress and anxiety. Pranic energy is the all pervasive universal energy. Using the picture of prana we are conditioning our minds to tap into the universal power,which gives us life.

Experience the Benefits Of Meditation.

You’re starting to find that place inside yourself where you are in control and your thoughts and are guided by your intentions. That place within where the mind is no longer the master of your destiny and controller of your fate. You are beginning to relax and experience what it means to be in a basic state of goodness and joy, a boundless place of deep understanding and serenity. A level of multi-dimensional consciousness that shows you once and for all that you are more than what you see on the surface. All your former illusions of self are now breaking down and you are on a journey to discover the truly divine being you are.

Become all that you were meant to be by learning how to meditate and let go of the self defeating beliefs you have built up over the years.

Use these meditation techniques everyday for the best possible results.

After meditating for many years I can tell you that the benefits of meditation can’t be denied. It is my opinion and the opinion of many studies that we all will live a longer stress free life if we just learn how to meditate .
Start meditating today using the above meditation techniques . It may save your life……

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Are You Your Own Worse Enemy? Overcoming Analysis Paralysis

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Analysis paralysis is a symptom of self-doubt. Analysis paralysis is when you have an idea or a goal that will improve your life, but self-doubt causes you to hesitate initiating the steps towards achieving the goal because you want to make sure that it’s going to work or that everything is in place before you start.

This hesitation shows itself in different ways. Some people take endless courses, which makes them feel like they are immersed in the activity they are trying to improve in. For instance, someone takes sales course after sales course as a way of avoiding going out and actually making a sale.

The character Zonker Harris in the comic strip Doonsbury was a professional student who remained in college for as long as possible to avoid having to go out into the real world.

Others never take the first step because they are entrenched in their comfort zone and would rather avoid trying something new than to try something new and fail or fall short.

“The known devil is better than the unknown devil” is their mind-set and strategy for living. Rather than improving his or her skills to get a better job or to walk away from a bad relationship, he or she stays because he or she is afraid that things will only get worse. This is another example of short-term gain for long-term pain.

These people will talk and complain about their situation, but never take the action to improve it. They will say things like, “It’s too late for me…” “What am I going to do? I’m 46 years old!” “He’s a friend. He doesn’t have the money to give me a raise…” They will come up with all kinds of excuses to justify their lack of action. The truth, as Mark Twain said is that, “You can have a thousand good excuses but not one good reason.”

Here is a great strategy that has worked for me for years. Fire-Ready-Aim is meant to help you kick-start your progress. It’s designed to create a sense of urgency from idea to implementation. The traditional process of Ready-Aim-Fire is a process of preparation (Ready) specific direction (Aim) and then implementation (Fire). The problem with this strategy is that it’s easy to get stuck in the Ready and Aim segments. As I described above, many people seem to spend their entire adult lives “getting ready.”

Here is the reality. Any goal worth reaching will not be achieved without encountering some kind of speed bumps along the way. You can prepare as much as you like, but once you pull the trigger you will start to get feedback that will help you stay on course. The sooner you begin to get feedback, the quicker you can make your course adjustments. Preparation doesn’t give you real time feedback. It gives you theories of what may happen. Theories don’t move your forward. Action does.

Fire – Ready – Aim reverses the traditional process to jump-start your progress and the feedback process. The idea is to “make the mess and clean it up later.” Get on with it. Go! Go! Go! Pull the trigger on the project first and make the adjustments as you go. Develop a sense of urgency in everything you do.

There is an obvious caution that I have to issue regarding this strategy. If your goal is to become an airline pilot, fly-ready-aim would not be a smart strategy. There are plenty of projects and goals where it makes sense to get the skills required to not kill yourself and others.

But, in my experience, the vast majority of projects and goals that people set would be far more easily reached by pulling the trigger before getting caught in analysis paralysis.

Pulling the trigger may well be taking a course of study, but not to avoid the actual activity with endless training programs. I don’t want to diminish the importance of self-education. I attribute my success to what I’ve learned through reading books like this, listening to audio programs and attending courses. But here is a good rule. If you spend three days at a course, spend the next nine days doing what you learned. Spend three times as much time doing rather then learning.

Here are some examples from my life. After my divorce, I was 45, semi-bald, still being sued by my biggest fan and “out there” for the first time in over a decade. One of the key strategies I learned in how to meet women is the three-second rule. The three-second rule is that as soon as you see someone who attracts you, you must approach her within three seconds. This is classic Fire-Ready-Aim. Most guys have approach anxiety, I certainly do. This strategy eliminates the Ready-Aim because the anxiety of making the approach would create self-doubt, which typically would lead you to talk yourself out of doing it. The three-second rule forces you out of your comfort zone and into the arena.

It’s a great strategy and it works like a charm.

John Graden is the author of The Impostor Syndrome. The Impostor Syndrome is the feeling you’re not as smart, talented, or skilled as others think you are. It’s the feeling you’ve been faking it and are about to be found out. Learn more about the book at:

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