Meditation for a Russian person is a strange concept, not always clear. Few people consider meditation as a cleansing and energizing. Someone considers it a ritual to attract love, money, we alth and other things. Someone associates meditation with religious teachings and sects, withdrawal from social life. Finally, some find it difficult, boring, and useless. In fact, meditation is a simple exercise in controlling your attention.
Cleansing meditation - releasing negative energy and filling with positive energy by focusing and relaxing at the same time. Meditation helps you take the time to understand yourself and understand your body and mind. It will also help you find the answer to the banal question: “what do I want”, and understand your place in the world.
Meditation is a salvation for a modern person who experiences constant stress, suffers from restless sleep, always feels tired and even complains aboutlack of time. A person feels that meditation is necessary for him to cleanse himself of stress, tension, negativity. What you need to restore strength and clarity of mind. Meditation is the art of achieving inner harmony and tranquility, a powerful way to reset the psyche. Just a few minutes of meditation a day helps to heal the entire human body, normalize its life rhythms.
Many are surprised, but meditation can be practiced absolutely anywhere. The main thing is to be able to immerse yourself in a state of calm and tranquility, regardless of the world around you.
Tips for beginners
If you need meditation to clear your energy, we recommend you start by reading the following rules:
- Don't meditate after workouts and during severe physical fatigue. The best time to meditate is after sleep.
- Don't meditate while sleepy - wake up first. Take a cold shower, exercise, do some yoga.
- It is better to meditate on an empty stomach. In the morning or 2-3 hours after eating.
- Nothing should distract from the process. Turn off your phone. Ask people around you not to touch you.
- It is better to start meditation with breathing exercises.
Clothes should be loose so as not to interfere with breathing. Remove accessories.
Purification Meditation Techniques
Method is based on concentration. You need to carefully monitor the movement of air during inhalation and exhalation, their duration.
If attention suddenly switched to something else, just move it back. At first, in order not to be distracted, you can count the inhalations and exhalations. Do not control your breath, focus on the sensations. Set aside extraneous thoughts for later.
Chanting mantras
Mantra is a saying or sound, a word that has a psychological and spiritual impact. Used in many religions. The most famous mantras are “Om, amen” and “Om mani padme hum” (“Treasure in the lotus”). Alternatively, you can use the word "peace". The mantra must be repeated, synchronized with the breath, out loud or silently.
Visualization
This method requires the development of inner vision. Look at a simple geometric figure. Close your eyes. Try to imagine her. Over time, you can move on to more intricate figures, the so-called mandalas and yantras. Other images can be used, representing various places close to the heart.
Metta bhavana
With the help of metta bhavana, one can develop not only concentration, but also a feeling of love for all living things. You need to start with love for yourself, then for loved ones, strangers, enemies, all living beings. Focus on your breath and repeat to yourself: “May I be happy,” “May I be calm,” “May I be free from suffering.” Then go to a person close to you with the words: "May you be happy", "May you be free from suffering." Then think about strangers, those with whom it is difficult for you to communicate, who hurt. Then wish all the bestthe world.
Vipassana
Meditation focuses on sensations, not emotions. Performed sitting for an hour. Close your eyes, don't move, observe your sensations. Focus on the areas of the most vivid sensations, but do not close yourself from the world: pay attention to new smells, sounds, wind blows. All thoughts should pass you by, do not focus on them.
Vedanta Meditation
Method of self-study through questions. A thought came to you - ask to whom it came, who asks this question, why did it come to you. From each question, a new thought will arise, to which you will also need to ask a question. As a result, you must move away from yourself and come to your oneness with the world.
Meditation in motion
Great for those who can't sit still. Can be used while walking or doing yoga. Breathe in and out as you move. Keep in mind that this is not an additional exercise, but an opportunity to focus more.
Meditation to clear negative thoughts
It is better to spend it in the evening, before going to bed. Close your eyes. Inhale (through your nose), exhale (through your mouth). Try to see your thoughts. Then gradually start putting them in the trash bag. Then imagine how the garbage truck arrives and takes away this garbage. Then imagine a light energy that completely fills you. As soon as all the cleared space is filled, inhale and open your eyes as you exhale.
If you decide to start meditating, it is important to understand that after the first time the effect will be invisible. The result can be observed in one and a half to two weeks.
