Where to start?
Starting meditation is actually very simple. To begin ask yourself why you want to start so you can view your goals and act upon those goals to transform your life, because of course you can change any aspect of your life (even weight loss!).
How hard is it?
Meditation is hard for the first few weeks or even months of practice, learning to calm your mind takes time and even some monks today can't fully complete this.
What to do?
In this post im going to show you the most basic meditation for grounding yourself (controlling your thoughts) which alone can be an effective tool to become more aware. First take away all distractions from the room you are in so nothing will bother you during your meditation, then close your eyes and breathe deeply and sort of focus or observe your breath and let all other thoughts clear from your mind. You may catch yourself drifting to other thoughts so just come back to observing your breath. this takes time to do it without drifting off and once you do it is very rewarding and relaxing. Practice this daily so you can effectively ground yourself.
Namaste.
(picture taken at beaver lake, Kelowna)
