How to Use Meditation
Meditation can be a powerful tool to provide yourself with emotional healing or guide you through the challenges of life. You can use meditation in a number of ways by setting an intention for what direction you want energy to flow, either in your own life or into another person’s life. Here is how to use meditation.
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Things You'll Need
- Time set aside for meditation
- Intention (where you want the energy to flow)
Instructions
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Understand what meditation is. Meditation is a way to silence your inner chatter so you can open up your spirit to connect with the flow of energy that feeds all life. As you sit in silence and choose to cease your endless stream of thoughts, your open yourself up to “hearing” your intuition, which can make your life much deeper and richer.
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Set an intention. Decide where you want to direct the energy that you are connecting with so you can make positive changes in your life or the life of someone else. By silencing your mind and setting your intention, you free energy to begin its healing work.
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Relax your body’s tension. You can use meditation to release the tension that your body holds from the day-to-day stresses of life. As you “feed” your spirit with energy, your body lets go of tension and relaxes.
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Manage your physical pain. Meditation can provide pain relief from many physical ailments. You can also use meditation to push through psychological factors that might be contributing to chronic pain.
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Heal your emotional wounds. You can use meditation to comfort emotional wounds that you have not been able to heal. By tapping into an unending source of love through meditation, you can access the love you need to comfort and heal your emotional pain.
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Change your situation. You can use meditation to visualize what things you want to change in your life and direct energy toward making it happen. For example, if you are having trouble losing weight, visualize yourself living in a healthier body while you meditate. Let yourself enjoy how wonderful you would feel if your life moved in that direction and you will direct energy toward meeting that goal.
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Send energy to help another person. If someone you love is hurting, you can direct healing energy his way by using meditation. You can visualize that person during meditation and “see” energy flowing into that person’s life, providing healing.
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Tips & Warnings
Many people use yoga as a way of silencing their inner mental chatter as a lead-in to meditation. If you have trouble silencing your mental chatter, consider incorporating yoga into your routine as part of your meditation practice.
