How to Meditate--rejuvenate your mind and body

Meditation is an effective way of treating stress and managing pain; meditation is an activity that calms the mind and keep it focused on the present. A mind in a meditative state is not clustered with thoughts or memories of the past or troubled by future events. There are two kinds of meditating technique which are concentrative and mindfulness meditation. In a concentrative meditation your attention is deep focused on a single sound, an object or one's breath which in turn brings you a calm, tranquil state of mind. While in mindful meditation, the mind becomes aware of but does not react to the wide variety of sensation, feelings, and images tied with a current activity. By sitting quietly and allowing the images of your surroundings to pass through your mind without reacting to  or becoming involved with them, you can attain a calm state of mind. Much research has been carried out in regards to Transcendental meditation (TM). TM brings about a state of deep relaxation in which the body is totally at rest, but the mind is highly alert. Studies show that meditation, especially transcendental meditation, is effective in controlling anxiety, enhancing the immune system, and reducing conditions such as high blood pressure. Meditation has been used successfully to treat chronic pain, control substance abuse and reduce stress.  The number one killer of beauty and long life is stress so please as much as you can get a good laugh and smile, watch more comedies and meditate. The steps below will help guide and teach you how to begin your first meditation.

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        Meditation - sitting still and doing nothing
                                                                                 Start your meditation by focusing attention on your breath, consciously make the breathing deeper.

Observe any thoughts that arise, try not to identify with the thoughts, remember that you are not your thoughts.

You are not the thinker either. You are the awareness, the presence in which thoughts arise.

You are that which is aware of the world of form, the world of thought. When you find yourself occupied by a thought, try to get to the space before that thought arose or the space after the thought goes.

Focus upon the space between thoughts, on the inner stillness.

Do this: Learn to relax your mind by redirecting your thoughts to a peaceful place. Visualize yourself sitting on a beach sand gazing across on to the blue water, gaze out into the night stars in the sky. Feel the air and water as though you are on the beach while sitting in your quiet room. let go, feel the water, air, see the birds and trees go with the flow. This is how you can heal your mind, you can hypnotize yourself by focusing on an image or place you love that brings you warmth and inner peace. Creation of harmony within yourself and your environment is the key to a healthier you. Keep in mind that our emotional, mental and physical state determines our immunity to diseases.
Click here for relaxation/Brain wave Cd's. If you're using an FIR or other sauna as an aid, as you get uncomfortable, which you quickly will, try not to resist the bodies detox process; just relax and let it happen. Be here and now, even if you'd rather be somewhere else. After the sauna you will feel very relaxed and energized. Take a shower, stay relaxed and alert, avoid focusing on any troubling thoughts.
Continue with the deeper breathing, maintain your attention on the breath and in your body and not on any thoughts. Perform mental relaxation, by 'switching off' of the mind (a state of no-mind or not identifying with any thought) while remaining very alert and present is the essence of meditation.
Click here for relaxation/Brain wave Cd's. You don't need to do anything else. 

Exercise for the mind to help you achieve mental clarity.

Going into the middle of year, the time is crunching down on your goals, most people every year about this time are struggling financially due to the poor economy and circumferential collapse. Most people begin to doubt their self and get stressed as though their fears are real but not always the case. When you get those red flags, inner voice, twitches, butterflies you think is a bad thing, not always the case so is change. Is a chance to grow, to tackle the perceived problem as an opportunity for a better horizon. Give a yourself a complete assessment.

Evaluate yourself:- What is the timing on your goals?                    
What is the merit of your idea? Rewards you picture.
What is your motivation? Can you tell the difference between your internal motivation and external motivation.
What are you most willing to commit to?

Be curious about your fear-what are you avoiding?
Note down: Red flags, Inner Voice, Twitches, Butterflies-the feeling that comes and goes- Realize it is the opportunities now that can help you succeed later. Check your emotional state, Are you depressed or stable, find solution to revive your mind and calm your body.

What are you willing to risk?
Jot down your boundaries, cravings.
What are you willing to risk? Are your relationships and savings/assets at risk. Try to stay clear and alert.

Meditate to find your strengths and limitations. Get to know what makes you unique- dreamer versus detail oriented. Reserved versus extroverted. Visualize your goal, do you picture yourself doing that happily?

Get involved in a goal now, tomorrow is now- prepare yourself and quit procrastinating. say it out load to yourself, get active. Get into it.
Look for partner to work with but at the same turn realize you are own. Be curious. Get perspective. Break out and talk with people you know well.
Avoid endless bumps and circle that goes no where, the stagnancy of mental gyrations.

Stress-Is inevitable, find out how to manage it.

To Consciously engage in futile habit is to let emotions and preconceived ideas (prejudice) get in the way of clear and conscious decisions- Avoid been attached to problem or people you can't help.

Keep the big picture in sight. The frame, the flash is not much if the insides are decayed. Don't get so caught up in overcoming the obstacle in front of you that you neglect the magnitude of what remains to be accomplished in the scene-Oops ! 

Save yourself the premature dilution, yes you can do it- remember the prepared mind given the tools can achieve substance/value. Do the best with what you have!

O.A