Meditation...Eliminate Stress - Increase Focus

Be still and know God is true in every sense of the word. It means to quiet your mind in order to commune with God. And although you might say it's impossible for you to quiet your mind...I bet you do it more often than you think.

Quiet Moments

Have you ever had quiet moments, when you were alone...sitting and staring into space? Nothing special going on in your mind. In fact, your mind was totally blank. You were breathing slowly and evenly. Not thinking about anything. Just staring into space.

When you do become aware of what you're doing and where you are...it comes as a surprise that you were so out-of-it! Or someone comes up and disturbs you. It's like being wakened from a nap.

But amazingly--you find yourself fully relaxed, tension gone, more focused, feeling really good and ready to continue on with your day. Well guess what! you've just done a session of stillness meditation.

Relax - Align - Meditate

This meditation helps you to be more productive, creative and insightful. It also gives you a sense of well-being, peacefulness, energy, improved health and a spiritual awareness...while eliminating disturbances of any kind.

When you want to release tension from your body. So, should you use meditation music? It's entirely up to you.

It's One Of The Best Meditations To Use

This meditation is just wonderful! It also induces a state of mental relaxation and a reduction of anxiety. Which is a good thing, because doctors now believe too much anxiety hinders your immune system. I discovered the other day...that the stillness meditation is now being used as a healing and preventive health measure.

Here are more benefits to the stillness meditation. You will have a clear, calm and more lucid mind...which can help propel you toward your goals. So let meditating become a part of your life.

Start Your Meditation

Begin the stillness meditation by finding a quiet place to sit. You can sit on either the floor or a chair...whichever is more comfortable for you.

Close your eyes...focus breathing in and out...relax your muscles...and quiet your mind.

Don't move your body when you relax your muscles. Remain completely still. If your mind races around--let it, but come back to your quiet state.

Relax And Be At Peace

Your mind will always race around after your thoughts, but practice will quiet your mind faster.

Let your mine float away into the stillness and quiet. Let go of the outside world and all the turmoil.

Relax, breath and enjoy your sense of peace and tranquility.

Do this meditation 10 to 15 minutes everyday. It can also be used with the breathing meditation...as a prelude to other types of meditation.

Control Your Thoughts

The Stillness Style Meditation technique is one of the simplest techniques to actually master. It is also a fantastic meditation style that can be used with or without meditation music. The Stillness Style Meditation is one of the first meditation techniques taught when you learn the Buddhist way of life.

Stillness meditation is the technique used to help you get control of your thoughts when you are starting out to learn how to meditate. What most people find the first time they try to meditate is that they cannot stop thinking? This is one of the greatest challenges you face in meditation, trying to clear your mind and keep it clear.

However, one point to note, the more you meditate, the easier it becomes to control the thoughts in your mind. I can tell you that from experience.

Get Comfortable

The first step in the Stillness meditation style is to find a comfortable place to meditate, ensuring that it is relatively quiet, safe and comfortable. Before you start the meditation simply do a few stretching exercises.

Sit down on the floor or on a chair, which ever is more comfortable. Now close your eyes and as you inhale a breath, tense all the muscles in your body including your feet, legs, arms, face, neck, hands and fingers and then release them with an exhaling breath.

During this exercise do not in any way control your breath or withhold it, simply let it flow naturally as you inhale and then exhale. As you are following these exercises and breathing out, simply clear your mind of all your thought. Imagine the clearing of the thoughts in your mind as water going down the drain.

Focus On Stillness

Each time you tense up and then release, focus on stillness. Do not make any rapid movements; simply release the tension of your muscles under your skin with no movement of your body at all.

During each exhalation, make sure you take a moment to pause and feel the energy as it rushes out of your body and you feel that sense of calm. If as you are doing this, you have a tendency to let thoughts from the day, past or of the future into your mind, simply let them float away and bring your mind back to the moment.

When you are first starting out, only do this exercise for 10 minutes per day. Generally, work on the basis of one cycle each minute but most people will do two per minute till they become more experienced. The core reason for doing this exercise is to help you break the cycle of stress or the buzz that most people have when they are first trying to learn to meditation. The more you practice this exercise the sooner you will be able to achieve a sense of calm and move onto other more complex and fulfilling meditation techniques.

Your Core Meditation

This technique is usually the first one people start off with during a meditation session and then they move to a deep breathing meditation session as their core meditation technique. However it is totally up to you as to whether you want to use this as the starting meditation technique for all your meditation sessions.

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