Simple Ways To Meditate Include Focusing On Your Breath

The point of meditation is to make our mind quiet and at peace

. It helps to stop all the stray thoughts which pass though our minds for a while and give it some rest. Ideally practicing simple ways to meditate should enable us to quiet our minds even in times when we are not meditating. It is not a simple thing to switch the mind off, but meditating helps a great deal.

Focusing on your breath and breathing is a meditation technique which can be mastered by anyone. Breathing is an involuntary action, so it is always there, it is rhythmic and this falls nicely in line with the theories on meditation. If you have ever been to an exercise or yoga class, or listened to guided meditation recordings, the lesson always starts by asking you to take a deep, or a few deep breaths.

Breathing, and deep breathing in particular is a super way to start any relaxation exercise. Deep breathing can calm you down immensely and you must have heard someone at sometime saying these words - "take a breather", it is for very good reason.

Much like yoga breathing, meditation exercise using the breath as a focus can release your troubles with every exhalation. For example you can breathe in through the nose or mount and visualize you are exhaling the breath through the soles of your feet or the tips of your fingers, even the top of your head. You have to imagine that your exhalation is taking with it all your worries and cares.

Making your breathing the sole focus of all your attention can be accomplished in many ways, and another good exercise is to breathe very softly, while imagining a very light object is in the way of your breath and you shouldn't disturb it. For example a feather or a thistle down! In this way you control your breath, and it becomes your only focus, breathing so gently that you don't disturb your imaginary object.

Meditation can be done at any time of the day, you don't need a special time or place to do this, just take five or ten minutes and focus on your breathing. If you are feeling stressed and you need a "breather" lock yourself in a cubicle in the ladies room wherever you may be.

by: Trevor Johnson..

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