Meditation is an age-old practice that helps give you clear focus, sense of purpose and deep inner peace. With daily practice, meditations can have a profound impact on your life. One often realizes over time a special sense of peace and calm you feel during meditation and which you carry over into your everyday life at home, at work or while in traffic. With greater levels of inner peace and calm, meditation keeps you more grounded and centered throughout the day. So how do you get started? Choose a quiet spot and try out these meditation postures.
Kneeling Meditation
This technique of meditation was popular ancient Egypt and is still practiced in Japan where it is called seiza. To meditate on a kneeling position you will need some cushioning to help ease pressure on the knees. Sit upon your heels, while keeping your trunk, neck and head straight.
Keep your knees together with the hands resting on both knees’ A great advantage of being on the floor with this position usually is the more “grounded” feeling that makes it easier to calm the mind.
This is another position you can use for your meditation. He sitting position is comfortable to most people. The trick is usually to position your buttocks a little bit higher than your knees, keeping your back straight. Your typical kitchen chair or office chair will work perfectly for this kind of meditation.
Try placing a small cushion on the seat to make you comfortable and to avoid any slumping. If you sit and your legs dangle above the floor place a cushion or a folded blanket underneath your feet so that you have a stronger self-supporting posture.
Cross-legged Meditation
Meditating while sitting cross-legged is need lots of flexibility. If the cross-legged posture is too uncomfortable for you, then it is advisable not to do it for long periods. However, if you are flexible enough, then you will find the cross-legged position a much more stable and grounded posture.
This cross-legged posture involves one sitting on a cushion on the floor. In the seated position, carefully place the right foot onto the left thigh. Then take hold of the left foot and carefully place it on the right thigh. Finally place your hands in front of you, each of them resting on the knee areas of your legs.
Let the Meditation Begin
Now that you are in your quiet spot and in a comfortable position, close your eyes and focus on the point between the eyebrows. Stay alert and then choose a focal point such as your breathing, or a feeling, a sound or repeat a short mantra as your point of focus. Choose your point of focus and stick with it. If you choose your breath as your focal point, count your breaths to help you keep focus. Do this for ten to fifteen minutes a day for a week and begin to feel the inner benefits of meditation.
Have fun and enjoy your meditation sessions in these new learned meditation postures!
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