How do you meditate if your mind cant relax for an instant?
When I try to meditate my mind cannot relax and keeps thinking, I cannot purely relax for a second. Any suggestions?
Answer:
Try focusing on something specific. The Hindus have a word, or utterance, call the Om. They chant it and suppose about it and focus on it. It's the breath and the heartbeat of everything. Siddartha by Hesse is a obedient explaination of this kind of thought. Its short and a apt read. Give it a try.
mike
Try a dark room, no sounds, no tv no nil and focus on a point on the wall, leave your eyes clear and focus.
Sometimes some music in the perspective will help. I recommend finding a cd of local american flute music.
Ommmmmmmmm, Yes, try that. Sit in noiseless room (no noise), close your eyes, breach gently and thoughtful, slowely chant Ommmmmmmm. It works.
Pratice, pratice, practice. Good luck.
Your problem is massively common. The solution is assured. Find someone who knows mantra meditation. The mantra (sound) is used to level-headed the mind. You will be releasing unwanted stress from the nervous system, so be prepared to own some thinking. The more you meditate the less thinking will be stirring. Ultimately you want to have a mind that become less reactive. Good luck on your prod.
Try using a poster or postcard of a Tibetan mandala to gaze at, or a ample crystal to gaze at, or a shallow bowl of hose down to gaze at. Burn incense, and concentrate on your breathing and relaxation.
Eventually you will unmoved your monkey-mind-- at this point you have little self control, but you will go and get it right if you continue.
There are copious guided meditation and sounds on cd to help until you can find to a point and stop the chatter. susangregg.com has some and pranichealing.com .
I enjoy the same problem. I tried to meditate adjectives my life and I find it unbelievably hard. I still try. I'm taking yoga curriculum, read a lot on the Internet, read books from the library, and just this minute downloaded some e-books where teacher guide you through meditation.
You can't think nearly stop thinking cos there you are thinking. So you own to treat your mind, concentrating in something outside your mind, similar to a noise, hear the noise around you, imagine nice things resembling you on a beach next to the ones you love. Use your imagination, get lost surrounded by your own world. I love to imagine than I'm flying inside my body, and that my body is a universe, and that i can treat everything i touch, see or think in the order of. If you really believe in something consequently your body will believe it too, and then that will become true, real.
I love the "Brian Weiss Meditation Guide", and the "Beginner's Guide to Meditation".
Here are some links that guides you through meditation:
http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/medita...
http://www.meditationiseasy.com/mcorner/...
What help me too to relax is to laugh, i watch on video.google some funny guys, Dane Cook http://www.danecook.com/ i loved him!!! And he is hot :)
We are taught on how to stir faster, but never on how to stop.
Have a nice day.
This is a remarkably common problem. It is switch not to try to stop the thoughts. Instead try to shift your focus. Some of the other answerers have suggested mantras. This should work very well. Alternatively, you can count your breaths, focus on your breaths, or focus on a spot on the wall.
It is important not to gain frustrated. If you find the thoughts creeping in, helpfully guide your attention back to your intended focus. Eventually, the thoughts will run their course.
Take a look at the zen meditation brochure I posted to my blog on Yahoo 360 on January 8th.
The Qigong masters buried a practise called the three regulations.
If you can still your mind and body; your breath will relax of it's own conformity.
If you can still your body and breath; your mind will become still of it;s own accord.
If you can still your mind and your breath the body will become still of it;s own conformity.
You CAN still your mind is you can sit still and slow your breathing a bit.
I think my zen brochure will relieve.
UN-CLUTTER your life.
Cut out things that are surplus to requirements
Get enough sleep.
Learn to soak up what you have.
Then you may succeed.
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