MEDITATION FOR BEGINNERS
How to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, and Return to a State of Inner Peace and Happiness
Yesenia Chavan
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Thank you for downloading my book! Also, congratulations for being proactive about applying the life-changing benefits of meditation to your life!
With Meditation for Beginners youre going to learn exactly how to meditate, how to use meditation techniques to calm your mind, and how to practice meditation daily.
Learning how to meditate and developing a regular meditation practice doesnt have to be difficult. Yes, meditation can seem difficult at first and learning how to take control of your mind can be a challenge, but meditating for only a few minutes a day can help you significantly reduce stress, improve your physical and mental health, maximize your ability to focus, and increase productivity.
Buddhism teaches that taking control of your mind through meditation is the only real antidote to stress, anxiety, and depression. Scientific studies have validated this and offer proof that meditation CAN in fact change brain chemistry and alter brain waves.
If your meditation efforts have been frustrating, dont worry. Meditation for Beginners will help you overcome the common obstacles to developing a long term meditation habit.
Meditation is simply a skill that you need to develop. Its like riding a bike. Yes, you fall at first, but eventually your ability to meditate becomes second nature and your meditation practice becomes the most enjoyable, most refreshing and life-giving part of your day.
People who meditate regularly experience less worry, anxiety, and stress, and are more positive, happy, healthy, productive, and successful.
You too can experience the amazing life-changing benefits of meditation by patiently implementing the principles outlined in this book!
Chapter 1 - What is Meditation?
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking,
merging finitude in infinity.
- Voltaire
In order to understand what meditation is, it is first necessary to look at life from the standpoint of what we as human beings can control. Do we have complete control over every aspect of our lives or is our control limited?
At first you might be tempted to say that you do have complete control over every aspect of your life, but when you dig a little deeper you will find that the only two things that you can completely control in life are your thoughts and actions. Thats it. Most things are simply beyond your control.
Fortunately, the power to take responsibility for your personal state of mind is something you have control over. Therefore, you have the ability to change your state of mind for the better.
According to Buddhism this is an important thing that you can and should do for yourself. In fact, Buddhism believes that taking complete control of your state of mind is the only real antidote to worry, anxiety, fear, confusion, stress, and frustration.
Meditation is a way of transforming your mind. By using techniques that encourage and promote concentration, positive feelings, clarity, a relaxed state, and a calm way of seeing the truth in all things, you can improve your mental and physical well being.
Meditation also provides an opportunity to get in touch with your mind on an intricate spiritual level in order to discover its habits and patterns. It is one of the most effective ways to cultivate new, positive, and fulfilling ways of being.
Meditation exists beyond the mind
Meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness. It is not about effort or doing, rather it is simply a state of awareness.
According to Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher Osho All that the mind is capable of doing and achieving is not relevant when it comes to meditation meditation is something beyond the mind. The mind is absolutely helpless when it comes to meditation.
Osho goes on to say that The mind cannot penetrate meditation; where mind ends, meditation begins.
You and I have been taught to believe that everything can be done with the mind. So, when it comes to meditation, our natural inclination is to start thinking in terms of techniques, methods, and what we can do to maximize our meditational experience.
It makes sense that we would think this way because so many things in life validate the use of the mind in getting what we want. We have been raised with the belief that if you just put your mind to it, you can do anything . There is truth to that, yet the only thing that the mind cannot do is meditate.
Meditation techniques will teach you how to take control of and connect with your mind, but the necessity of that control only pertains to the degree in which it allows you to free yourself from your mind.
Meditation is your true nature. It is your being. It is entirely you and it can only be entered into through the emptying of your mind. As Osho teaches Meditation is not an achievement it is something that already exists in you, it is your nature. It is there waiting for you just turn inward and it is available. You have been carrying it always.