Article by Jessica T
Why Meditate? – Short Breathing Exercise
Do you want to begin your meditation practice and improve your health and connect with your spirituality? There are a number of good reasons why to work with meditation, and when you begin to do your meditation every day, you will also start to feel some of the lovely benefits with meditation.
How Meditation can Benefit You
When you practice meditation consistently, you will start to feel less strained and less frustrated. Small things that used to upset you will no longer have that same affect on you, and you will be able to keep a positive attitude and centered through the day.
Practicing Meditation is also able to lower your heart rate and blood pressure over time, and will teach you to completely relax and control your mind. Meditation helps you to concentrate and teaches you to focus for longer periods of time on just one object without being distracted.
Meditation also helps you in your spiritual development and makes it easier for you to receive support from your Higher Self and intuition.
Start Simple
So if you have decided that you are going to start your meditation practice but do not know where to start, you first need to consider what you want to achieve from your meditation work. So if your target is to improve your health your focus will be completely different than from those who wish to reconnect with their spirituality.
Here are some different types of exercises for different goals
Stress Reducing Meditation Techniques:- Breathing Meditation Exercise- Visualization Exercise- Mindful Meditation- Body Scan
Spiritual Meditation:- Angel Meditation- Third Eye Meditation- Chakra Meditation- Healing Meditation
Psychological Health:- Self Hypnosis- Positive Affirmations- Chakra Meditation
Regardless of what your goal is, it is a quite good idea to start with an easy breathing technique, since this will be the groundwork for about any type of meditation. So start by working with the breathing technique for some time to start with. You can do this quick meditation
Breathing Meditation
Step 1Find a good location to practice your exercise. Find a comfortable meditation position and then take a short moment to settle before you start.
Step 2Close your eyes and take a deep cleansing inhalation to let go of stress and anxiety from your mind and body. Now continue to breathe deeply and visualize that you are breathing in a blue wind of healing air that enters your abdomen and fills every part of your body, making it light up with positive energy. Now exhale the air and visualize it as a dark tainted cloud of drained energy and anger leaving your body, making you feel a lot more relaxed.
Step 3Continue to breathe in the healing air and let it heal your body and make you feel relaxed and free of stress. If thoughts enter your mind, just return your focus to your breath and continue with the exercise.
Do this breathing technique for as long as you feel like it. If you are a beginner, you most likely want to start with just a couple minutes meditation as you will have to get used to sitting still and be in control of your mind for long periods of time.
So start your meditation practice the best way for you and enjoy the great feeling it brings.
Learn more at Guided Meditation
About the Author
Jessica T.I am no meditation or yoga expert but I am simply interested in these things and I am just sharing the knowledge that I have about meditation in hopes of helping you with your meditation practice.At my website, Positive Affirmations, you can find different meditation techniques that you may want to try.Learn more at:Guided Imagery