Are you a beginner in mediation? Here are 15 Easy Tips and Techniques You Can Try

As this article is for beginners, I am going to give you a real deep and precise detailing so that while you read on this article you will get in touch with your inner self and your mind gets completely calm and focused while getting connected with your thoughts. Usually when people talk about meditation, we have a common reaction to the word which is closing your eyes and sitting silently going completely blank on mind. Well, that’s not true rather it’s much more than that.

Meditation is actually, a mechanism that helps you get in present, stay focused and get in connected with what you’re thinking and feeling. It helps you to take a pause before reacting to a situation so that you can make a response to it in more genuine way. When you meditate you need to create a void from the outside world to get yourself linked to the real world or you can say the universe. However meditation is a personal experience and there are different forms of meditation and one should feel encouraged to try which one’s suitable for you. Here are some simple, easy meditation tips and techniques for beginners to try.

1. Choose your own space

Choosing a designated space is the first crucial step towards mindful meditation. Your space has to be chaos free, devices free, more natural, uncluttered, comfortable and calm so that your transition into meditation would be easy.

2. Get yourself a comfortable seat

A comfortable seat will enhance your posture to enter easily into mediation world. Make sure your comfortable seat doesn’t make you fall asleep while meditating. 

3. Proper posture

Posture is the tool that helps you get into the transition. Your body has to be completely relaxed. Sit in a lotus position or position that keeps your backbone straight for a long moment or may be longer than that. Make sure there are spaces between your vertebrae to keep your spine tall like a string is connected from the sky to your head pulling up gently. You can keep your eyes shut or gaze downwards gently and focused.

4. Focus on your breathing

One of the easy meditation tips and techniques for beginners  is controlling your breathing. First you need to take a nice slow  deep breath , more deep from the ones you usually take in every day life to destress yourself. Hold your breath for few seconds and exhale. And while exhale make sure all air is leaving your body completely and that exhale lasts a little longer than you inhaled.

5. Connect with your feelings

When you take your first deep breath try to connect with what you feeling. How your body feels? How that air passing through your nostrils to your lungs and reverse? How your brain connects tour mind.

6. Distraction is normal

During this whole process it’s absolutely fine to get distracted. Your real life thoughts, worries, anxieties, nearby sounds and sensations might take over your brain and body, but that’s fine. The good news is your body is trying to get synched with the rhythm of the universe. You can again take control over your thoughts and feelings.

7. Be kind to yourself

Don’t judge yourself while you get distracted. Don’t get obsessed with it, just treat yourself with kindness and let your feelings flow.

8. Keep taking longer breaths

Take deep longer breaths, longer than the last one. Each time you do it, keep increasing the duration which makes it little harder for you. But that’s normal, you would get used to it the more you practice.

9. Practice without expectations

A key meditation tip and technique for beginners would be practicing the mechanism without expectations. Do not expect anything, any positive or negative result in the first place before you start trying out meditation. Just let yourself flow, let your mind flow in the rhythm of your breaths. 

10. Set a definite time

Meditation is the mechanism that your body and mind gets synched which means the time or the schedule you set to perform it plays a crucial role. When you set a definite time for meditating you must try to continue the exact timing so that your body and mind gets connected to the rhythm.

11. Don’t fidget too much

While meditating fidgeting could be little uncomfortable and distracting. However, feeling restless to change positions is totally normal. If you’re feeling really uncomfortable to handle or too much painful you can absolutely readjust to get back to the position. 

12. Be gentle with your gaze

When you complete your meditation time period and you’re ready to get back to your present gently open your eyes if your eyes were shut or gently lift your gaze towards your surroundings and environment. Take a moment, feel the air, warmth or cold, the wind, notice the sounds and see how it feels to your body. How your emotions are exactly the moment after and before the meditation?. How your thoughts are more stable, spreading into the vast universe for last few minutes or hours. Try to get the rhythm back to your body to sync it with your present.

13. Reintroduce your movements smoothly

After you’re done with connecting back to the present in a new rejuvenated way, move your body, hands, legs smoothly, gently and try to feel the physical world with bare feet, skin so that you would recognize different sensation yet in a magical and calmer way.

14. Feel post-meditation emotions

One of the key tip and techniques for beginners meditation is let yourself flooded with different forms of emotions such as happiness, curiosity, overwhelming-ness, calm yet relaxed mind with questions and doubts, may be sadness or contenting feeling whatever comes to your mind and heart just let it come and take a pause to feel them individually in a more deeper way. Try to live those feelings and see how you react or respond to them. 

15. Come back next day

Come back next day even if you don’t feel like it, because practice is going to be the key to your improved meditation. The more you practice, the more you feel connected to the universe in a magical and serene way. It not only helps you to destress yourself but also improves your wellbeing and helps you to take a better control of your life and situations it.

That’s it, keep practicing. And be kind to yourself. You’re going to excel in it oneday.