Easy ways to learn to meditate – Part 1
Meditation is like having an orgasm. If you reach a meditative or orgasmic state, you definitely know it. And if you are not sure if you did, it is highly likely you haven’t. To try and describe what meditation or an orgasm feels likewell, you just know that it happened.
Meditation is the most valuable tool I have learned for well being. It is also the least understood. It is my hope that I can explain some practical benefits and ways to experience them for yourself.
Think of all the mental chatter that goes on in your head during a typical day. You wake up to a radio or alarm already intruding noises are interfering with your mental state. You (hopefully) spend some time with your mate and then check texts and voicemails from the night before. The mind starts churning based on that information. Perhaps you turn on one of those horrendous morning talk show programsmore mindless brain chatter ensues from the drivel the hosts are yapping about. The morning paper trumpets all sorts of horrible things that occurred the night before. This gets you thinking negatively without you even realizing it. On your commute you have radio djs, blabbing on your cell phone, or hopefully a book or music, but still, your mind is engaged in something. There is no time for your brain to relax or chill out, and you haven’t even started your workday yet!
Meditation offers many, many benefits. I often feel the new-agey way that meditation is described in magazine articles turns people off and weakens the message. Its most fundamental and easily understandable benefit is it gives your brain rest and recovery. There is something different and deeply refreshing about consciously resting your brain. I am not saying sleep may not help in the same way, but meditation is a different thing than sleeping and provides tangible feelings in your brain that you don’t feel when you wake up in the morning. You are more alert, you feel better, you are happier. There are other deeper metaphysical benefits but at a basic physical level that everyone can experience, you brain simply feels noticeably undeniably better than it did before you meditated.
The initial difficulty is, how does someone meditate? I remember reading “Focus on the one sound or word” or “Try to think of nothing”. The problem the advice “thinking of nothing” means you are thinking, because you are trying to focus on nothing. That defeats the purpose. It took me awhile to realize that learning
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