Psychic Source presents Meditation for the Non-Meditator

2nd January, 2009 - Posted by Paige x7868

The holiday season is over and the New Year’s resolutions are made and perhaps some were even broken already! If this is the case, don’t despair. This is a time to start fresh; look upon this New Year as an opportunity to create your heart’s desire and focus on what it is you really want in life.

With the strain of the economy coupled with the concerns of the job market and world affairs, we’re all looking for ways to relax and keep our minds clear of stress and anxiety. Meditation is a great way to calm the mind and create a sense of solace and peace. In fact, more and more physicians are strongly suggesting meditation and yoga as a tool to reduce, prevent and control pain associated with chronic illnesses. The mind is a tool which allows us to process our day-to-day affairs and creates a vehicle of expression when communicating with others. However, sometimes the mind has a tendency to over analyze our day-to-day activities and produce drama and trauma that can wreak havoc and upset on our daily routines. Meditation can help you manage your mindset and approach to life.

To become a meditator, you need not own crystals, live on the West Coast or subscribe to New Age magazines. Meditation is “a mental bubble bath”. In fact, most of us have experienced meditation without even knowing it. How many times have we had that “special feeling” of oneness with our surroundings? Maybe it was a beautiful sunset, or watching ocean waves, feeling every motion, every sound as if we were part of the wave. Both are mesmerizing and rejuvenating. This illustrates that there is no one approved method of meditation. Just trust yourself and learn to discover a method best suited to your personality and life goals. All you need is a sincere desire to meditate and understand the value of centering to produce incredible results.

Meditation doesn’t require burning incense or contorting our bodies! As Westerners we did not learn to sit in lotus pose or even cross-legged for that matter. There are many other positions and alternatives that are quite acceptable for meditation. You could sit (in a chair or on the floor), stand, walk or lay down. Perhaps your approach involves movement of the whole body, fingers, or arms, walking, dancing, or chanting and the use of a mantra. Many forms of meditation are based upon the awareness of breath. Through your practice of meditation and the different forms and styles, you will find the one right for you.

Now all that is left to do is set time aside each day to reflect, relax and meditate. By creating a daily practice, you can expect to achieve greater clarity in your life. If you are finding it difficult to squeeze in some time each day, consider this, if you can sit for at least 8 minutes, after all, that is the television viewing time for a program, before a commercial comes on the air, you will be amazed by life changing results meditation offers.

If you would like to learn more about the art of yoga and meditation or for an insightful psychic reading, I’d love to hear from you. Click here to visit my bio page and view my schedule.

Psychic Source presents… A brief history of Meditation.

No one knows when meditation really began, it has no certified origin but it is believed it was practiced by the hunter-gatherers thousands of years ago.

In 3000-2000 B.C. in the Vedic Tradition, meditation is described in the ancient Hindu texts and has been a part of Hinduism and its many offshoots ever since.

588 B.C. Prince Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment after meditating under a banyan tree. As a result Buddhism in all its many forms exists today.

2nd Century A.D. – Christian Meditation, the Desert Fathers, a group of early Christian monks retreated from the world to live in simplicity. Meditation by the Desert Fathers was used to get closer to God for more than 1,000 years afterwards. As a result, meditation would become an important part of Christian practice.

More than 10 million North Americans practice mediation on a regular basis, twice the number a decade ago. Meditation is becoming more mainstream and the non-mediators are becoming the minority.

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