Read The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. It will answer all your questions about meditation, how and why it works, what method is the best for you, etc. You can buy it here.
You can meditate while driving your car or while walking or doing anything else. All you need is keeping your back straight and being concentrated on some object or objects like people around you, sounds you hear, your own breath, etc. It really works and no one will even understand that you are meditating.
Try to sing one of your favourite songs while meditating. It doesn't need to be a mantra or something religious that people usually use for meditation. If you love David Bowie, for example, you can sing Heroes and it will give you just the same effect.
It's a great method for loving yourself and for understanding that all people, just like you, want to be happy and want to escape the pain. So it will make you more open to others. If you have hard feelings to someone or even hate them, it will definitely help you.
Here you can read a good and easy description of this method.
If you want someone professional to teach you this method, just find some meditation teachers or groups in your area.
Take a piece of paper and a pencil (or anything else you like to use for drawing). Relax your mind and begin slowly moving your pencil on the paper, don't stop to analyse or evaluate it, just keep drawing for 10 minutes. If you practice regularly, you will be able to meditate this way for an hour or even longer.
The point of such meditation method is experience, not the picture you have in the end.
OM means orgasmic meditation. You can try practising it if you want better sexual life for you and your partner. More here.
Try each method of meditation you are interested in for a minute or two and choose the one that you like the most today.
You can change meditation method every time you feel bored from the one you practice now. They all give the same result, there are so much of them just because people are different.
You can try dynamic meditations, especially if you love dancing or if you get bored quickly while sitting in a meditative pose. For example, Osho kundalini, it's one of the most popular.
You can practice it alone or with a group, there are a lot of the dynamic meditation classes, find one in your area.
This method works for everyone, even if you are always busy, it won't take any extra minute from you, because you take a shower every day anyway. So just concentrate on the feel of the water upon your skin and imagine how it washes away all your negative thoughts and fears. That easy, but works amazingly!
Concentrate on the feelings in your body. Start with a very small area (nose tip, for example) and then move on through whole your body. No evaluation needed, just realise what each part of your body feels.
In some time of such practice, you will feel that your body in much more relaxed.
You can practice this method of meditation on the go if needed.
Colouring books are amazing for meditation. Just relax your mind and use a nice colouring book. Ones of the best on Amazon: Enchanted Forest, Color Me Mindful: Underwater, Keep Calm and Color On.
You can do it while the dinner time at work if you don't have much time for meditation.
It's a method that many people and even celebrities (Moby, David Lynch, Paul McCartney) like. Choose your country here and read more about it.
Breathing meditation is great for people with any level of experience in meditation (or no experience at all) as it's very easy to understand and works as good as other methods. Also, it is wonderful because you always breathe, so you have this object of meditation with you everywhere.
Just focus on feelings of your inhale and exhale, don't try to control your breathing, just feel it. You can do it on the go if you don't have time for formal meditation.
You can find someone who is experienced in a meditation method you've never tried. This person can teach you online or you can go to their classes of group meditation or individual lessons.
Just try to google yoga and meditation centres in your area and find the teacher you like there. After some lessons, you will be able to practice alone if you want.
Buy a membership in a meditation or yoga centre with different classes of meditation, choose the one in your area. You can also go for individual classes with different teachers in that centre if you don't like to practice in a group.
Just try as many meditation teachers as you want and find something interesting for yourself.
Try to sing religious songs that you like while meditation (mantras, prayers or other). Just relax your mind and sing. It will give you amazing feelings, especially if you think how many people and for how many years have sung those songs while meditation.
You can also do it in a group or with a professional teacher, just find the right one in your area.
It can be everything: barking dog, laughing children, loud TV, etc. Just concentrate on all the sounds you can hear without any evaluation. In some time you will feel calmer in noisy places.
You can do it on the go as well as while the formal meditation.
If you have too many thoughts in your head or even obsessive thoughts, observe them without any evaluations. They can amazingly help you with your meditation. And in some time you will realise that your thoughts come and go and they are not as huge as you thought.
You can use this method on the go if you don't have time for a formal meditation.
You can find special meditation for women classes in your area or you can just find a teacher who will give you individual lessons.
Also, you can try to practice it yourself with this book.
If you are too tired for sitting in a meditative pose, you can lay on your back and meditate, just keep your back straight and relax your body. Most of the meditation methods will work so.
In some days of such practice, you will feel more energy and you will be able to sit in a usual meditative pose.
You can meditate on your sleepy state if you feel sleepy while meditating. Even if you fall asleep it will work, maybe you will even have some lucid dreams as a bonus.
Make short sessions of meditation. If you practice regularly, you will see soon that you become calmer and it's easier for you to sit in a meditative pose for longer.
You can change methods every day if you get bored from one. You can meditate alone or with a group of people. Just relax and enjoy it without waiting for any huge results. In some time you will feel the difference between you before and now.
Try to meditate before sleep (you can do it right in your bad, just lay down with your back straight and relax) and while doing this think to yourself "I will be conscious while sleeping". In some time of practice, it will work and you will see the most beautiful dreams ever.
Just concentrate on the taste in your mouth while you are eating. Don't make any evaluations to the taste (good or bad, sweet or spicy), just open your mind and feel it. It is hard to concentrate on the taste for a long time first, but after some time of such practice, all food will taste like it tasted in your childhood.
Watch this guy, he will explain you a lot of things about meditation and it's methods. Watch also his other videos. Then you can choose any method you like and practice it.
Try Zen of Seeing by Frederick Franck. Many people think it's the best books ever for drawing meditation, it will open your mind and make you more relaxed, you will see the world around you in a new spectacular way.
Each method of meditation is good for making it easier for you if you have mental problems, and they can even help you with your practice.
Use your obsessive thoughts or hard emotions as objects of meditation. Just watch them without any evaluation and in some time you will understand that your thoughts and emotions are not that powerful and you can control them.
You can always use this method on the go as well.
Concentrate on your negative emotion while meditating and soon you will understand that you can't concentrate on it for too long and it often happens that you start thinking about your laundry or something like this. This way you will understand that all your feelings and emotions are not that powerful and you can control them if you watch them. You can use this method on the go if you are too busy for formal meditation.
Try to meditate on a picture of the holy person you like. Just put the picture in front of your eyes and try to concentrate on the imagine. After a few minutes of looking at the picture just relax your mind for a minute or even less and then again concentrate on the picture and so on. You will feel very relaxed and cheerful after it.
If your back hurts while meditation or you have headaches often or something else, you can use your pain as an object of meditation.
When you try to ignore something you feel, it comes up all the time, but if you are not afraid to sense it, in some time it disappears. Just slightly turn your attention to the pain and try to concentrate on it for some time without thinking that pain is bad, it's just pain that you feel.
Use this method only if you are sure that your pain is not dangerous, in some time you will stand any kind of pain easier.
If you don't have time for a formal meditation, use this method on the go.
All methods give the same result in the end. You just need to choose every day the one that you like the most. This way you won't get bored with meditation and will be glad to practice different methods every day.
Meditation works slowly but amazingly. There is no method that would give you huge results in a week of practice. But they all will give you amazing effect if you practice regularly for a long time.
Find a class near you or just some people who like to meet for meditation. If you like a company or if you need someone experienced to explain to you how it works, it will be great for you to meditate in a group.
If you feel sleepy, raise your eyes and look up for some time. It will activate your mind. Then you can meditate any method.
Look down while preparing to the meditation, it will make your mind calmer. Then you can be more concentrated for any method of meditation you want to practice today.
If you have a question for yourself, just ask it while meditation and then just calm down your mind and meditate. After some time of silence in your mind, the answer will come. It is a wonderful thing because you know all the answers for yourself already, it's just because your mind is always noisy, you can't hear them.
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