A Simple Guide To Meditation

This is a simple guide to meditation for people who have not had much experience with meditation or think it may be too difficult for them. In this guide, I want to show you how simple it can be, and how we can use the anchor of focusing on our breath to help direct your attention away from your thoughts and mind chatter.

Transcript

Welcome to this simple guide to meditation. I'd like to invite you to find a comfortable position that you can maintain for the next five minutes, So seated or lying down and then start to bring your awareness to your breath. So start to notice your next inhale and then followed by an exhale notice the next exhale. So for this meditation we are going to bring attention to the breath and use the breath as an anchor. So keep focusing on your inhale and an exhale. Meditation is not about not thinking or stopping your thoughts. In fact the practice is acknowledging your thoughts and then letting go of them and bringing the attention back to the breath in this instance or the mantra or the sensations but for this practice we will use the breath. Often termed as the monkey mind or the movie of the mind the practice is about bringing your attention away from thoughts and back to the next inhale and then the exhale will follow and then the next inhale will follow, The next exhale will follow. So let's go ahead and practice a few minutes of this. Just observe your next inhale followed by the next exhale. Don't try to over complicate or over analyze the breath just observing we're just witnessing. We're not criticizing or critiquing. Start with your next inhale follow with your next exhale inhale and exhale If a thought arises acknowledge it let go of it bring your attention to the next inhale followed by an exhale. Another thoughts already entered the brain that's okay acknowledge it let go of it bring your attention to the next inhale exhale Inhale exhale focusing just on the breath just on the inhale and exhale no matter how many times you have to let go of thoughts and bring the attention back always the next anchor is your inhale followed by an exhale As we bring the meditation practice to a close I'd like to thank you for joining me