Meditation – Starting the Right Place

Do you wish to start to meditate and improve your health and find your spirituality? There are a number of great reasons why to practice meditation, and when you start to do meditation exercises on a regular basis, you will also start to feel some of the lovely benefits with meditation.

Meditation Benefits

When you meditate regularly, you will start to feel stress freer and more at peace. Small things that would normally infuriate you will no longer have that same affect on you, and you will be able to feel grounded and centered throughout the day.

Practicing Meditation is also able to lower your heart rate and blood pressure over time, and will teach you to really relax and still your mind. Meditation helps you to concentrate and teaches you to focus for longer periods of time on just one thing without being distracted.

Meditation also helps you in your spiritual work and makes it easier for you to receive guidance from your Higher Self and intuition.

Where to Start?

So if you have decided that you are going to start your practice but do not know where to start, you first need to decide what you want to accomplish from your meditation work. So if your wanted end result is to get a feeling of balance and control your focus will be very different than from those who want to work on their spirituality.

Here are some types of meditation for different goals

Stress Reducing Meditation Techniques:

• Breathing Exercise

• Visualization Technique

• Mindfulness Meditation

• Body Scan

Spiritual Focus:

• Angel Meditation

• Third Eye Meditation

• Chakra Work

• Healing Meditation

Balancing the Mind:

• Self Hypnosis

• Positive Affirmations

• Chakra Balancing

Despite of what your goal is, it is a quite good idea to start with an easy breathing meditation, since this will be the foundation for any type of meditation. So start by practicing the breathing meditation for some time to start with. You can follow this short meditation exercise

Breathing Meditation

Step 1

Find a quiet place to do your meditation. Find a comfortable posture and then take a short time to settle before you go on.

Step 2

Close your eyes and take a deep cleansing breath to let go of stress and anxiety from your mind and body. Now continue to breathe deeply and picture that you are breathing in a blue wind of healing air that enters your stomach and fills every part of your body, making it shine with positive energy. Now exhale the air and visualize it as a dark heavy cloud of drained energy and tension leaving your body, making you feel a lot more relaxed.

Step 3

Continue to breathe in the healing air and let it fill your body and make you feel relaxed and free of anger. Whenever thoughts enter your mind, just return your focus to your breathing and continue with the meditation exercise.

Do this breathing meditation for as long as you need. If you are a beginner, you probably want to start with just a couple minutes meditation as you will have to get used to sitting still and focused for long periods of time.

So start your meditation practice the correct way for you and enjoy the great journey.