Simple Meditation Techniques For Everyday Life
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More and more people are reaping the benefits of meditation. Science has shown that meditation can actually reduce stress, ease depression, lower anxiety and reduce heart disease. Meditation is one of those activities that anyone of any age or ability level can enjoy. Two especially easy meditation techniques to learn are grounding meditation and walking meditation.
Grounding meditation brings you back into the here and now if you are feeling out-of-sorts, unable to concentrate and easily distracted. Unlike other meditation techniques, grounding meditation will boost your energy and able to concentrate easily.
Visualization and your imagination are the only two things you will need in order to do a grounding meditation. First, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Next think about a golden chain that runs through your body up to the ends of the universe and down to the center of the Earth.
Now, go back to the place where this golden string emerges from the top of your head. In your imagination see it traveling out past the stars, past the sun and out of our galaxy till it goes beyond the border of all space. It ends up in a great bright white light. The golden string blends with the light and is safely rooted there. It becomes one with the light.
Follow the thread back down through your head and down through the Earth’s crust, deeper and deeper, until it reaches the center of the Earth. There you see the source of Earth’s energy: a deep yellow-orange core of light. The thread merges with the light and becomes one with it. You feel pulled toward the center of the Earth and grounded.
Next notice your breathing, notice your feet planted firmly on the ground. As you emerge from your meditation, you feel fantastically energetic, clear-headed and renewed.
One of the easiest meditations to learn is a walking meditation. Walking meditation is great exercise and you get all the good things from meditation, all in one package. It is very simple to fit into any schedule and can be beneficial in even short snippets of time. Leave your dog at home when you do walking meditation, though. Trying to do both is an exercise in futility.
Start your meditation by just walking at a pace that feels right to you. Notice that your feet hit the ground and how that feels in your body. Feel your breath coming into and out of your lungs. Hear the rustle of leaves. Just focus on the present moment. If your mind starts to wander off, let the thought go without any stress whatsoever.
Some people find it helpful to listen to calm music during their walking meditation. Others prefer focusing on saying a mantra, phrase or prayer in their head. Or, just focus on body sensations. Once you are finished walking you should be feeling rest and ready to go.
As you can see, meditation is not really all that esoteric. It can be one of the most practical, life-affirming things you do in a given day. Any activity or household chore that is repetitive (such as vacuuming, mowing the lawn or planting a garden) can be meditative. With so many different meditation techniques available, you are bound to find one that you find most helpful to you.
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