Meditate - It is easier than you think

Meditation is that time when you should empty your mind, stop all thoughts and be mindless.

Or should you?

Meditation is a much misunderstood subject. Associated with esoteric, impossible to achieve goals, most people tune out.

Even the thought of just sitting is too much, leave alone having no thoughts.

So allow me to make a case for why it is simpler than you might think. So simple that everyone should do it.

Every day, distractions flood our senses. Media, noise, conversations, television, people. Our mind and body actively process everything we are exposed to.

The simplest form of meditation is to pause, sit, or stand, and just reflect on your thoughts. Yes, reflection is also meditation. You do not need to analyze, decide, or react.

Just acknowledge you feel this way. That you are thinking these things.

Next, focus your attention on something. Anything really. Flowers, music, even a book. Reading is also meditation. Allow yourself to soak in the experience without distraction.

If you are comfortable, move to the next step. Slow down or shut down your senses. Start with your eyes, and focus on something. A thought, your breath. A body part.

You are telling your body that it is fine to stop paying attention to the outside world and focus inward.

Move on when you are comfortable. Shut your senses and work to create a gap between your thoughts and you. Observe your thoughts as the individual experiencing these thoughts instead of being the thought.

Slow your thinking down.

This will occur when you are able to dispassionately process thoughts without reacting to it. Realizing that your thoughts and you are not the same thing.

There is no hurry.

The process can take a few months or a few years. But isnt the whole point of meditation to stop constantly running on the treadmill?

You are moving too fast. Slow down. That is meditation.

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