meditation: finding your center
there's lots of sorts of meditation and it might not be easy to find how to do it at first.
I recommend you use this file to meditate on at first
Confidence
It says it's hypnosis but actually it's some sort of guided meditation. I tried it and the promised effects didn't work, but it was helpful to learn me how to meditate.
Once you get familiar with the relaxing of the body, i recommend to stop using "guided meditation/self hypnosis cd's" because they limit you and are boring.
I recommend to meditate on some very slow music in which they do not sing (like didgeridoo).
How to meditate?
It is important not to drink coffee or cola, because these make it more difficult to relax. Caffeine is a stimulant and makes your heart go boom-boom.
STEP 1
-lay on your bed comfortably, with no clothes that feel tight.
-make sure nothing can bother you for at least 40/60 minutes, turn your cellphone off.
-make sure you are in a silent room/place.
-breath in deep at normal speed. your belly must become larger when breathing in (this is a healthy and relaxing technique, breathing through the belly instead breathing through the chest)
-breath out very slowly and now your belly becomes small again.
-repeat this step 2 times.
(if your breathing doesn't become more relaxed, repeat this 3x breaths step another 1 or 2 times with a small pause in between)
STEP 2
After about 10/25 minutes after beginning the process of step 1, you will feel your body has calmed down and feel kind of heavy. Lots of people don't go further than this stage, so they just use meditation as a relaxation tool.
Meditation can actually expand your consciousness and make you sort of take a trip inside yourself. This is what is needed to be able to locate the "core of your being" or your "center".
So after 10/25 minutes i recommend you start watching your thoughts, and understand that you are not your thoughts. The ego always thinks and finds reasons to think, but the aim of step 2 is to stop this...
Instead of giving energy to your ego (giving it attention) you must let it go. This might take a 1-5 meditations, until you realise how to do this but i am sure that every one can.
You can not stop giving your ego attention by thinking "i need to quiet my thoughts" because that's just another form of think. Instead you must focus your attention on your breathing, and on relaxing. Just let it go, it is like falling asleep... let the energy pull you higher higher...
So sooner or later with this easy technique you will experience feelings in your body that you have never noticed before because you were too busy thinking. You will experience energy and different kind of sensations, and your mind will a lot of the time get you out of concentration again and start demanding energy.
But everytime you meditate it will become easier, and everytime you will learn more and more about yourself (the center of your being)
I recommend to meditate at least 1 time per day.