Author: Daniel Matthews / Source: Lifehack
The woman in yoga pants sitting in a lotus position atop a rocky cliff, overlooking a valley draped in fog — this is the glamorized version of meditation you’ll come across as you search. Yet if you’re seeking meditation to calm your mind, a fantastic setting with no distractions is rarely available.
So how to do meditation?
The truth about meditation is it’s an everyday practice for anybody. You could be a mountain climber or you could be an accountant — either way, your home is just as good a place for meditation as any.
Are you seeking to corral your racing thoughts and relieve a sense of unease, awkwardness, or uncertainty? Look to home meditation to cultivate a laid-back, creative, confident, and organized frame of mind. According to extensive scientific research, meditation relieves stress and anxiety, decreases blood pressure, improves sleep, and improves your ability to pay attention. [1]
From start to finish, this article will give you quick, easy steps to follow so that you can meditate at home regularly. You’ll begin by assessing, identifying and altering things that need to change in your home environment. You’ll end by understanding the basics of meditation so that you can let yourself do what you already know how to do deep down in the hidden reality of your mind.
You’re ready to let your mind be, and just be, in your own home — let’s begin.
1. Find the Right Space in Your Home
Where is your right space for meditation at home? Is it in your basement, your bedroom, your living room, or your study?
The right space will be one with the least distractions built in to its purpose. In that case, it may be your bedroom. If you’ve set up your bedroom to be a place for sleep and only sleep, it will lend itself well to meditation.
The right space will also be a reasonably spacious one. Although comfort is not your goal, you need room to sit. Choose a space that is private, spacious, and quiet. If you don’t have a space in your home like this, create one. Free it from clutter and get it ready for you to meditate there any time.
Ultimately, your right space is one you feel comfortable meditating in, the space you can enter with no other expectations.
2. Improve the Feng Shui in Your Home and Meditation Space
Feng shui means “wind and water.” It’s the ancient Chinese art of placement.[2]
Feng shui improves harmony with nature. Adherents to the principles of feng shui believe all things have energy (chi). The focus of feng shui is to send negative chi (sha) out of the space and attract positive chi (yun).
Here’s the truth about feng shui: it’s not complicated or hard. The following will influence feng shui positively in your home and meditation space:
- Living things, such as plants
- Beautiful objects, such as sculptures or even a well-polished piece of driftwood
- Mirrors in symmetrical placement with the lines in a room
- Mellifluous sounds, such as trickling water or wind chimes
- Furniture away from walls
- A centerpiece, such as a small table with books or an ornate lamp on it
- Incense or something else that smells good
- A lack of clutter and an attention to organization that emphasizes the usefulness, purpose, and essential being of each item in your house
Given that feng shui is connected to Taoism and Buddhism, it will complement the meditative atmosphere you want to cultivate in your home.
3. Eliminate Pervasive Distractions That Can Harm Your Wellbeing
In part, meditation is about accepting the existence of distractions. When you meditate, you don’t judge and assign a positive or a negative value to distractions — the ticking of a clock, an itch, the barking of a dog — you let them occur and let them dissipate like waves.
However, in the same way that feng shui removes objects that attract negative chi, there are certain types…
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