Author: Amanpreet Singh / Source: Lifehack
Do you meditate?
Negativity surrounds you in the form of people and situations. You react to every element and lose your conscious response. That repulsive reaction makes you a negative over-thinker!
Ever heard of tool to cut the chord of negativity and lead a blissful life?
It’s meditation.
The state of meditation is a fuel of your inner world for a pleasant sail in your outer world.
There are many reasons to meditate. Want to know the foremost?
A meditated mind enables you to create your karma consciously. When you do that, the sources say you achieve the ultimate purpose of life- To feel happy![1]
So yes, feeling happiness is the biggest reason to meditate!
To unlock the magical experience of meditation, you neither follow a thumb rule nor turn into an ascetic. Meditation is any means of creating a majestic experience.
So how do you meditate?
No one can tell you which meditation technique gives you the best experience. You need to find your own course. But don’t overburden your mind with tonnes of techniques.
Just start… How? When? For how much time? Leave them all.
Start with a mindset you’ll spend a little alone time to enjoy solitude. Until you find your best meditation technique, let me explain:
1. Mindfulness Meditation
This form of meditation creates wonders in mind. It is the tool to maximize the concentration; the secret to extracting mind’s fullest potential.
How to Do It
Mindfulness meditation practice couldn’t be simpler:
Take a good seat, pay attention to the breath, and when your attention wanders, return.[2]
Don’t be hard on yourself. More it is effortless, more blissful is your experience.
Not as easy as chewing a piece of gum!
Playing hide and seek, thoughts are turbulence reaching that mind-sate. But that is what the challenge is all about — to reduce the frequency and polish the quality of thoughts.
Don’t expect dramatic magic the first few days. Please be patient and don’t stop; this is where you’ll get the result.
You are always close reaching there. Do it every day to feel it one day. Once you taste the experience, trust me it’ll become as customary as eating food.
Come on! 15 minutes is what it asks.
2. Open Monitoring Meditation
This meditation technique is about perceiving everything the way it is, not as per your judgmental convenience. It is one of the best technique to learn the art of loving with detachment.
How to Do It
In “open monitoring meditation,” one begins to practice “awareness of thinking.” All we must do to practice this form of meditation is to be aware of our thoughts and feelings and observe them without attachment.[3]
Whether it’s a feeling from your inner world or a sound from the outer world, allow everything to free-flow without focusing on a particular thing.
Attachment is the root cause of suffering — Gautama Buddha
When you learn the art of detachment, you don’t stick to failures and loses. You move on.
My observation says… “Open monitoring meditation” is the perfect answer to “How to create awareness in the present moment?”.
3. Follow Compassion
It is one of the best meditation techniques to feel content and blissful.
If empathy is to feel the pain of others by stepping into their shoes, compassion is to walk wearing those shoes. It is the conversion of feelings into action, doing something to relieve the pain of others.[4]
‘Help’ is just a four-letter word, but its impact is beyond words. Not only it makes the recipient blissful but also the one offering help.
How to Do It
You don’t have to do anything extra for a start. Many help-seekers are around you.
Your emotional friend needs your moral advice and a beggar lying on street needs your financial help.
If you have a solution to any of their problems, please don’t walk away leaving them suffering.
Help them without expectations. Not only for them, do it for yourself.
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