Meditation techniques for beginners are not as difficult as you may expect. While mastering the art of meditation is a life long journey, meditation is a wonderful experience that will change your life in so many different ways.  If you are new to meditation or struggling to silence your conscious mind and enter into complete relaxation, these meditation techniques for beginners will set you on the right path.

Meditation can help treat depression, stress and anxiety leaving you with inner peace without the use of dangerous drugs and treatment. Modern science has helped this ancient practice of meditation with the introduction of binaural beats and sounds.

Simple Meditation Techniques for Beginners

Focused Breathing: 

This exercise is one of the easiest meditation techniques for beginners to master.  This techniques is based on the sound and feeling of your breathing.  Find a quite place where you will not be distracted.  Lay down or sit on a chair, whatever is most comfortable for you and close your eyes.
Once you are completely comfortable starting focusing on the sound of your breathing. Try and keep your breathing at a constant pace.  Focus on the sound of your breathing and the air entering and leaving your body.  You may find that you will begin to have random thoughts pop into your head, don’t stress, simply brush them aside by returning your attention to your breathing.

Silencing your conscious mind from all the daily stress, worries and fears is your goal.  You may begin to notice that your body is becoming lighter, your muscles relaxing and feeling tingling sensations across your body, this is perfectly natural.  Let this relaxing feeling spread across your body until it takes you over completely.  If may feel strange but you may begin to feel slightly euphoric, a true sign you are entering deep into meditation.

The Best Meditation Techniques for Beginners:

Binaural Beats:

By far the most effective method to enter into deep meditation fast is using binaural beats.  Binaural beats are sounds that effect your brain waves that are responsible for relaxation. By listening to these sounds you can quickly get into a meditative state fast.

These meditation techniques for beginners have become the most popular and effective methods to remove the frustration and struggle most face when trying to meditate.

Simply put on the audio with a set of headphones and you will quickly enter into a state of complete relaxation and bliss.  Binaural beats are extremely effective and only require you to sit or lay in a quite place.

Download a FREE 10 minute demo that will leave you feeling mentally refreshed and psychically relaxed within minutes.

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Discover meditation techniques for beginners easily with the help of binaural beats and sounds.  Learn how to quickly melt away stress, anxiety and start feeling refreshed and rejuvenated within minutes today.

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The world is in turmoil. There is no denying it, no stuffing it under the bed and pretending it doesn’t exist. It’s time to face reality. People are starving, countries are on the verge of bankruptcy, cities are being completely levelled by natural disasters, people are going without food or water, losing their jobs, families are breaking apart and we are all struggling inside to survive, to find a safe place within our heart and soul to take refuge so that we can face what’s at hand and the challenges we may face a head.

It can be scary, I know. If you live a fear based life and don’t have faith that there is something beyond fear, beyond our attachments to a world in which we created based on a totally unsustainable model.

Will I be able to survive a change? Can I live life without all the material that I have grown attached to? What will life look like? How will I define myself?  How will I survive?

These are common questions that I hear from people who live in a fear based world. In a world controlled by mind virus’s passed on through the media and our unconscious friends who haven’t yet woken up to the possibility that we actually are the ones creating our lives, how  we experience them and how we facilitate life on our planet.

I challenge to you to sit where you are, eliminate all distractions; meaning shut off your phone, your Facebook, the music or whatever you have around you that may distract you, and get silent. It might be something you are unfamiliar with but I challenge you to take the first step towards creating the life you want and try.

You may or may not be aware that the world in which we have unconsciously created is unsustainable. That we and our planet, which in essence are all one, cannot survive for much longer on the current model. We can no longer sustain ourselves on this greedy, status based, material obsessed world. It is destroying us inside and out. You have heard the phrase our thoughts create our reality, well what kind of thoughts do we have about ourselves and the world to create what we have created…

What can YOU do to change it?

First things first you can stop, breathe, be silent and allow yourself to reconnect with the truth of who you are. We never stop, were always go, go, go! On to the next task without ever stopping to consciously visualize what it is that we really want to create. We are on auto pilot, programed by a mind virus that we picked up somewhere from birth to this present moment. We’ve become like puppets controlled by some invisible power that speaks through our computers, magazines, newspapers and TV’s. A power that tells us we need to be prettier, thinner, smarter, and wealthier and that we never have enough and always need more. You’ve seen them, the commercials for lotteries painting a picture of what life would look like if you were a millionaire or the ones for Botox making promises that you’ll feel healthier, brighter and more alive if you just inject a little of our overpriced poison in your face.

What you need to understand is that these are temporary fixes attempting to convince you that the solution comes from somewhere outside of you. That the more you have and the better you look, the happier you will be.  However these things, that are outside of yourself, do not and will never have the power to bring happiness to your life. The more you look outside of yourself the more suffering you will cause, within yourself and in the world. You become a participant in the spread of this mind virus which is the greatest contributer to your internal turmoil and the turmoil you are seeing on the planet as we speak.

Today take just  10-15 minutes to get silent and ask yourself. What do I truly want for myself and the planet? Ask yourself this question over and over again and then listen. Listen from the very depths of your heart and soul and you will find that answer, that connection to inner truth. What you may or may not be surprised to find is that what you truly want for yourself and others doesn’t come from a box, a bank or a needle. It’s a gift that you were born with and has been available to you all along… That gift is love, compassionate unbiased love.

You have a limitless supply of love that when tapped into has the ability to heal your life and when projected outwards, in unity, has the ability to work miracles. With love all things are possible.

If you want to create peace your life and the world remind yourself that every moment is a choice point and that in that moment you can choose the thoughts that create war or peace, love or fear and disaster or miracles. So stop, listen to your heart and be awakened to the power of unity with truth.

Namaste

Shayne

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When we are challenged in life by our fears, by adversity or by others the best thing for us to do is to retreat in silence. To be with ourselves and question our thoughts, not immediately react or combat. These immediate reactions come from a place of misunderstood thoughts and perceptions that are guided by Ego and eventually lead to war with ourselves and others. Silence allows us to work through Ego and connect to Spirit which is truth.  In truth there is pure clarity and freedom to remember who we are and always come from a place of Love, Peace & Joy – Shayne Traviss

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What is the meaning of silence?  Webster’s dictionary describes it as “the absence of any sound or noise; stillness.”

I wanted to know more about this stillness and began attending silent or weekend retreats over several years with various teachers such as Gangaji, Adyashaniti, Muni  or Pamela Wilson to investigate the depth of awareness and the gift of silence.  If you have never attended a silent retreat I highly encourage you to do so.  These amazing teachers have the ability from their own experience to point you to the silence that is always present.  You see,  I was of the belief that being silent was boring and that nothing happens in silence, but in reality it’s quite the contrary.

Most people are reluctant to enter silence for long periods of time, or for any period of time for that matter. I’ve actually had conversations with people who tell me they are scared of being silent and would do anything not to arrive at that place. And why might that be?  Perhaps there is the true knowing that when we enter into silence, we enter into a place where  there is nowhere to go but to meet  ourselves.  We are so conditioned to the external stimulation of voices, television, radio, our mobile phones and thoughts of what we should be doing, that we rarely experience ourseleves in a state of silence.  But when we eventually enter into silence with awareness, we enter into a place where we are meeting ourselves at a deeper level.

I love silence and it doesn’t mean that I have to be by myself to enter into it.  As human beings, many of us are not comfortable when a conversation lags and silence enters, there is a natural tendency to move towards speaking to fill the gap, but if you allow silence to be present in your exchange with another, you will notice that it can have a very powerful effect in the absence of conversation.

When we intentionally enter into silence we get to be with ourselves without any external  influence and  it helps provide perspective on the true simplicity of life.  Let me warn you though, the more you do this, the more you will want to hang out with your ‘self’ – what a concept!  Notice how nature is always in silence, the trees, the mountains, the ocean, the flowers, the sun, the moon, they all exist in silence, take a look at their beauty.  I would like to suggest you take one day and commit to ‘being’  in silence and take a walk out in nature and see for yourself, pay attention to the stillness .   If you’re in a relationship ask your partner to enter into silence with you for a day and become aware of you both notice without using the mind and words to communicate with each other.  Let your communication take place in the silence.  It truly is a beautiful way to be.

Adyashanti says “There is a great space in which this moment takes place. There is a great silence that is listening to the thoughts”. May you discover the gift of silence this holiday season and may you live your life in love always.

Honour your spirit and walk towards the journey your heart desires.

In  love,

Lorraine

VividLife.me Contributor

About Lorraine

Lorraine Wilson has been on a journey of self discovery for many years. She openly shares her experience with others and offers hope, inspiration and an invitation to “Keep Life Simple” through self inquiry.  She lives on the West Coast with her children.

Lorraine has been influenced and is incredibly grateful for the teachings of Gangaji, Adyashanti, Eckart Tolle, Pamela Wilson, Muni and His Holiness, The Dalai Lama.  She has worked in the field of communications and broadcasting for over 30 years and utilizes her communication skills as a program facilitator and provides one on one support to others who desire to investigate their life journey.

Stayed tuned for ‘Keeping Life Simple’ on VividLife Radio. The program will be an opportunity for everyone in the community to come together to discuss and be supported in the never ending discovery of who we truly are.

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