How to Gain Peace of mind through meditation

Gain Peace of mind through meditation

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Meditation helps reduce stress, headaches, negative thinking, improves sleep. It unites the body with the mind, and teaches us to focus on the moment. It brings an all over sense of well being as well.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Patience
Place of serenity
Alone time
comfortable clothing

Step1

After a long day, change into something comfortable to wear. Prepare to relax. Light some candles, maybe turn the lights low. Find a comfortable place to sit, preferably on the floor using a meditation pillow, you can get this on any yoga site.
Make sure you turn your cell phone off, put the volume on your answering machine down, the last thing you want is to be disturbed when you are in a state of serenity.
Find a room in the house where you can be alone. Shut the door and prepare for your meditation.

Step2

Light an incense. I love to meditate while sage is burning The scent is clean and calming. Sit with your legs crossed. Draw your shoulders down away from your ears. Lift through the top of your head with your spine straight. Rest The back of your hands upon each knee. Close your eyes. Begin to focus on your breath.

A lot of people are not aware that the breath can be used as a tool for good health and over all well being. In addition to calming the mind, it helps to rid toxins and reduces anxiety.
As you breath in, allow the belly to rise, as if it were filling up like a balloon, as you exhale, draw the belly in. After a few deep breaths, just allow yourself to focus on the moment.

Step3

Meditation takes practice. Don't be discouraged if your find yourself thinking about something else. It's natural. We are conditioned to be distracted. When this happens, just go back to where you were when you first started. Try to find the begin of the breath and the end of your breath.

You will find that the stress seems to leave you, and now you should have allowed a good 20 minutes go by and have a lot more energy and as you feel less drained and ready for a good night's sleep.