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Meditation

How To Meditate Like a Monk - Even If It’s Your First Time

by baLooT on April 29, 2008

How To Meditate Like a Monk - Even If It’s Your First TimeMeditation involves reaching a state where your body and mind are consciously relaxed and focused. What you get from it is an increased awareness, a more intense level of focus and concentration, and a positive, much more upbeat outlook on life. It’s a gift from the heavens… and it’s readily available to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

But for most of us in the West, meditation is usually associated with monks and mystics and anyone seeking spiritual enlightenment or answers from above. To an outsider like me, the practice of meditation was something that seemed to take years and years to master.

But you don’t have to be a monk or mystic to enjoy the profound benefits of meditation. In fact, you could go from zero to a full-flight meditation in just minutes, once you know the basics. It’s very easy to do. But the experience can be so profound, that it’s something you’ll want to do for the rest of your life. [click to continue…]

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Beginning Meditation - Five Steps

by baLooT on April 18, 2008

Meditation is a key to inner peace and deepening intuition. When we think of learning how to meditate, we view it as difficult and mysterious. As a result, most people don’t make the effort. They believe that meditation is the absence of thought. This is not true.

Step one: Find a specific location inside your home that you will dedicate to meditation. Decide what you need to put there to encourage yourself to sit. You can use a small table to place special photographs, statues, candles, and other meaningful objects that will connect this space in your mind with meditation. [click to continue…]

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