Start your meditation journey today. Learn 10 easy tips to improve your mental fitness, career, and relationships with these simple techniques.
10 Easy Meditation Tips for Beginners: Your Guide to Mental Fitness
How to start meditation? It is a habit whose benefits you will see a lot in your career and your relationships. You will be calmer, and your mind will start working very fast. For physical fitness, you follow a fitness regimen; for mental fitness, you need to practice meditation.
Here are 10 quick points to keep in mind as you begin:
Getting Started: The Basics
Find your spot: Find a comfortable place in your house, like a chair or a bed. You can lean against the wall to be comfortable, but you must keep your back straight.
Traditional over casual: While a walk may be meditative, traditional meditation—sitting in a comfortable place with eyes closed for 20 minutes—directly trains your mind for greater focus and resilience.
Choose a focus: You have to focus on only one thing. This can be your breath or a short mantra from your religion that makes you feel positive.
Visualisation: If you want a different option, visualise yourself receiving a stream of positive light throughout your whole body.
Maintain positivity: Have a positive mindset. Feel the presence of whatever “Higher Power” or “Universe” means to you.
Building the Habit: Timing is key. Ideally, you should sit for 20 to 30 minutes to experience regular improvements in mental clarity and stress reduction. If you need to start with 15 minutes for the first week, that is fine.
The best time to meditate: It depends on your lifestyle, but many say the best time is the morning after a bath when your stomach is empty. If you have a busy day, do it before bed to help your mind calm down for powerful sleep.
Handling a wandering mind: It is normal for your mind to run here and there. When you realise your focus has drifted to things like “YouTube” or “Samosa,” simply bring it back to your breath or mantra. This “bringing back” is exactly how your concentration and mental fitness increase.
Going Deeper
Explore different techniques: There are thousands of meditation techniques, and every person is different. To reach the next level, I recommend reading books like The Autobiography of a Yogi or joining organisations such as Isha Foundation, YSS, or The Art of Living.
Spirituality is being a good person: Remember for life that meditation is spiritual growth, but spirituality is also how you talk to people and the decisions you make. The cleaner your heart is, the deeper you will be able to go in meditation.
Start the habit of meditation today. Whether it’s the first thing in the morning or just before sleeping on an empty stomach, commit to it as a habit for the rest of your life.
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