| There are many different ways to learn how to | | | | This is an ancient Buddhist technique and involves |
| meditate. Which one you choose will depend a lot | | | | you in concentrating on your awareness of either |
| on your personality type and how patient - or | | | | your body or things happening around you. You |
| impatient - you are. | | | | focus on the "now" or present time. Everything |
| Breathing Meditation | | | | else is either in the past, in which case you can't |
| This is one of the easiest ways to learn to | | | | change it, or the future in which case it is yet to |
| meditate. Since you're reading this, it's a safe | | | | come. This takes practice - often over many |
| assumption that you already know how to | | | | years - but can bring about profound changes in |
| breathe. Breathing meditating just takes this a | | | | your life. |
| stage further. Typically this kind of meditation | | | | Binaural Beats Meditation |
| uses a CD or MP3 to talk you through what to do | | | | My favorite kind! It involves the least effort of |
| - often known as a guided meditation. There's | | | | any type of meditation process that I've come |
| usually some kind of backing music as well, | | | | across and is as simple as pressing the play |
| sometimes in the form of chimes or "new age" | | | | button on your iPod or CD player. The binaural |
| music and sometimes it can take the form of | | | | beats then go through a process known as brain |
| natural sounds, such as waves breaking on a | | | | entrainment. This takes your brain into a deep |
| beach. The idea of these guided meditation tracks | | | | meditative state and allows you to reach a state |
| is to get you to relax, concentrate on your | | | | of deep meditation in a matter of minutes, even |
| breathing and generally unwind. | | | | if you've never meditated before. |
| Mindfulness Meditation | | | | |