There is growing interest in Meditation and concentration exercises. Anybody can practise meditation; you don’t need any specific training or education. In fact exercises require no intellectual understanding. It is often the simplicity of meditation that people find confusing!
If possible find a group of people to meditate with, this will definitely help. However, if you want to start meditating on your own, these exercises will help.
1. Focusing on a Candle.
A candle is a good object for meditation. It embodies light and the tip of a candle flame provide an excellent object for our concentration. When concentrating we want to be focusing on something smaller than the smallest. To start the exercise, we can focus on the candle; we should try to ignore everything else in the room but just be aware of the candle. We can keep our eyes half open, but they should not be strained. As we focus on the candle, we can feel that the candle flame is in our heart. We are trying to identify completely with the candle. After a while, we can narrow our focus to the small tip of the candle flame. By doing this exercise we will improve our concentration and one pointedness; this is essential to meditation.
2. Breathing Exercise.
Breathing exercises are a simple but effective form of meditation. If we breathe in naturally and slowly it will automatically help to slowdown our active mind. In this exercise we want to be very conscious of our incoming and [Read more...]
