Mind Health Secrets High Plr Ebook

Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1:
Why Meditate

Chapter 2:
How To Begin

Chapter 3:
Your Breath

Chapter 4:
The Here and Now

Chapter 5:
Things That Might Happen

Wrapping Up

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Synopsis

Release whatever expectations about what will occur as you meditate. Don’t think that you’ll have some experience of nirvana…Heaven. Don’t think that you’ll have a void mind. Don’t think that you’ll stop thought today. Don’t think anything. If you’re attached in anyhow to the thought that you’re going to “acquire” something from sitting now, let it go. If you’re concerned about getting something each time or whatever time you meditate you’ll be frustrated. If you’re frustrated you’ll not continue.

Get Ready

Discover a place that’s quiet. A place where you can’t hear a television or music or dogs barking or individuals talking or autos driving by is best. This may be really hard for you.

You might need to go someplace to discover a place to meditate. You might need to discover a meditation group listed in your local newspaper that meets in a quiet place on a regular basis.

Discovering a quiet place is really important as many distractions may prove too much to manage and you might stop meditation as soon as you begin.

You’ll need a place that has a pleasant temperature – not too hot – not too cold. Air blowing directly on you isn’t contributing to meditation.
Discover a place free of or comparatively free of insects that will be flying by, landing on you, biting you, and so forth. Initially these things may greatly distract you.

When you’ve discovered a quiet place that you are able to sit undisturbed for up to 60 minutes you’ll have to find a comfortable place to sit. You’ll be sitting from 5to 50 minutes (maybe, again up to you) so you’ll have to discover a posture that works for you.

The simplest for me was to sit cross-legged with my right foot on top of the crease produced by my left calf and thigh. There’s no reason to sit anymore than 60 minutes.

Your back ought to be straight. Put your hands in your lap. Your fingers will naturally curl inwards if you’re relaxed so simply let them do that. You’re trying to find a comfy posture in which you are able to stay alert, not get sleepy, and not fall over when you’re relaxed… and yet you ought to be as unstrained as possible.

You won’t find a painless position initially, though you are able to attempt if you wish. You may sit on a pillow or meditation cushion.

You may lean back against a wall, a sofa, a bed, anything to help support your back if you’ve back pain. If you’re limber you may wish to attempt the full lotus or the half-lotus poses as they’re really stable and a few individuals may meditate for hours without too much irritation.

There will be a lot of things going on in your brain… in your body. Your body will be attempting to adapt to the position that it is in. You might feel pain. You might feel hot. You might feel cold. Your breathing might be fast. Or it might be slow. Your brain might be filled with thoughts.

So many thoughts that you can’t possibly center on any single thought particularly. You might feel an emotion. You might have questions forming.

View all the turmoil your body and brain is going through even as you unwind sitting in one spot with your eyes shut. Why is there turmoil when you’re doing nothing truly, just sitting down?

As you watch it you’ll observe a lot of things. You can view feelings. Physical senses. Dread. Affection. Thoughts. You might be watching your thoughts, hearing them for the first time and in another way.

Don’t participate… Simply watch and center the assorted things. Discover how your “attention” to something may isolate it from everything else happening.

Also discover how things link together. One thought supplies a jumping-off point for a chain of linked thoughts that may wind up going completely away from the original guessed. It’s this attention that you’ll use to center on breathing as you watch it come into and leave the body.

Consider yourself as a scientist or a pupil. You’re a student of your awareness. Of your body and brain. You’re going to see what makes you tick.

You’re going to learn a great deal about yourself. If you feel inclined – maintain a short journal following each meditation session about what you experienced.

Synopsis

There are a couple physical matters going on in your body all the time – one is the breath. It’s an excellent subject to centre on and the basis of meditation.

Crucial

When you observe the breath there are a lot of things to observe… The pace of taking a breath… the consistency of the tempo of breathing-does it always remain same as you sit?

The smoothness of the breath – or the abnormality of it…

The depth or shallowness of breath… and, does it alter over time or is each breath a carbon copy of the last? Where do you sense the breath? Your nose? Your throat? Your mouth? Your lungs? Your tummy? Do you observe your diaphragm muscle beneath your ribs contracting and decompressing to enable you to breathe?

Commonly individuals keep their mouths closed and breath through the nose – but if you’ve a cold or a nasal condition that forbids you from doing so then breathing through the mouth is all right… But, your mouth might become really dry with sitting a while.

So observe your breath… at what point does it enter and leave the body? What physical sense does it produce? Where precisely is that sensation? A few of us feel it at the tip of the nose… a few further up the nose… where do you feel it? The breath is the center meditation.

Truly, only 2 things are required for excellent changes to happen inside your brain… a focus on the breath and mindfulness during the day when not meditating.

Begin your common sitting session with getting comfy in your sitting posture and watch all the matters going on with your body and brain… attempt to unwind and calm the brain down…
Observe the physical sensations happening…

Observe the breath.
Watch the breath.

Observe where the breath enters and exits the body at the nose.

Attempt to narrow your focus to simply a small place in the nose where the breath may be felt entering and exiting the body. It’s this tiny area of centering that’s crucial to meditation. Once you discover the spot to center on, do so.

Your brain will likely still be filled up with additional thoughts and you do occasionally feel your body crying for attention – a cramp, a little back pain, a little foot pain, muscle pain…And that’s what is going to occur… it’s supposed to occur… so you’ll know that, at this point, you’re on the correct trail.

You’re doing what you have to be doing…center on the breath at that little point in your nose. Watch that spot for the whole in-breath and the whole out-breath.

As you observe that the attention of your brain has shifted from the breath to whatever other thought disturbed, re-focus on the breath at that little spot in your nose. That’s all… that’s the major effort of meditation in this style. Center on the breath – your whole attention is on the breath for the in- and out- breaths.