Beginners Guide

Guidance for meditation will be given under two main methods. Beginners can start practicing using the both techniques. If one has time to spare even for a little while in the busy life, he or she can practice sound meditation and the other method, mindfulness. Mindfulness can be practiced at any time of the day while doing activities. However, if a person requires further assistance for improving meditation that can be done through quarries about any problem or difficulty in relation to the practice.

1. LISTENING TO SOUNDS

A person can find a time to sit somewhere very comfortably. The sitting posture and the place can be the person’s desire. Then he or she have to close eyes and listen to any sounds. There is no necessity to distinguish different sounds, trying to connect where the sounds are coming from or who is making sounds and why?. Sounds change all the time and therefore a person always hear new sounds which arise at the present moment during meditation. Sometimes past memories or future plans may come to the mind but that is the nature of the mind. But remember to return back to the practice as soon as the person realizes the mind has moved away from the meditation for a while.

2. MINDFULNESS

Anyone should be able to practice this meditation technique while attending to various activities in the day. There will be no special posture or place for this practice. Beginners can start the practice while he or she brushing teeth in the morning or at night. He or she may concentrate on brushing teeth but may also notice that various thought will also come into mind while brushing. The numerous thoughts that come to mind may not have any special use or importance at the time of brushing teeth. However, a person may continue this action mindfully as soon as he or she realize that the mind is drifted away. Similarly when you wash your face practice the same way and concentrate to washing face and feel the warmness or coldness of water. Then again when get different thoughts to mind, return back to the original action mindfully.

In the similar way, while bathing, it is the same practice, when water touch the body, may feel the sensation of softness, coldness etc. Other thoughts may also rush into the mind, time to time but have to keep the mind on feeling of bathing. One can repeat this every day and will see the change in him or her-self. At this point a person may discuss and get more guidance for further improvement.