Meditation In Love

Meditation - Quiet Your Mind, Get Abundance in Your Life

Pascal said "All of humanity's problems stem from man's in ability to sit quietly in a room alone". Some people may think this is too simplistic, but I certainly agree that a quiet mind is the foundation or garden of inner peace. And inner peace is something quite attainable, converts into outer peace. Starting with your surroundings and radiating outwardly.There are many techniques for quieting the mind, some can even be overwhelming at first, remember we think over 50,000 thoughts a day, techniques such as reflection, deep breathing, visualization and contemplation.The one I use regularly and that is most universally accepted is meditation.In just five or ten minutes a day, you can train your mind to be quiet and still.Once you have realized this stillness it can be utilized in your daily life. By making you less reactive and irritable, your awareness is more responsive, giving you greater perspective to see and feel things as little occurrences instead of crisis. This is were the pursuit of abundance is enhanced.Meditation will teach you how wonderful it is to be calm by giving you the gift of total relaxation. In short, it teaches you to be at peace.There are a great many variations and different forms of meditation, (subjects for up coming articles of mine)Simply, mediation requires you to empty your mind. Meditation can be done alone in a quiet environment, your surroundings keep distraction minimized. All you have to do is sit down comfortably, close your eyes and focus or pay attention to your breathing, in and out, in and out. Now as thoughts enter your mind you gently think " that's nice", and allow then to go, bringing your focus back to your breath. Continue to do this over and over again. You will train yourself, over time, to keep your focus on your breath as you release your thoughts.This is not as easy as it sounds, remember those 50,000 thoughts a day, thoughts will be sneaking when one is released to try to full the stillness.Rare is the beginner who is able to focus full attention for more then a few seconds. The gift is to become an effective mediator by being gentle on yourself and to be very consistent. Don't be discouraged or doubtful either. You see a few minutes each day will give you abundant benefits, over time.I use variations of traditional meditation to make meditation more fun and more effective for me, you can learn these too, if you like.I don't know very many people that I would consider to be at peace with themselves and their lives, and that are not successful in their lives, who have not spent at least a little time every day in meditation.