| Meditation is all about 'mind control'. If you are not | | | | Some people also find a remarkable improvement |
| able to stabilize your mind and it keeps on | | | | in their focus when they try to meditate in |
| roaming elsewhere whenever you try to | | | | presence of soothing music. Actually, the thing is |
| meditate, you ought to take certain stringent | | | | that right from our childhood till we attain maturity |
| steps to calm it down. It does not mean that | | | | we have never been taught to focus on our |
| there is something wrong with you or your | | | | innerselves. So, naturally as adults we find |
| mental ability. Rather, it's a very common | | | | meditation an impossible pursuit. |
| occurrence and might have even affected the | | | | Various meditation tutorials are also available these |
| 'gurus' when they had started to learn to | | | | days-some even over the Internet. They also |
| meditate. | | | | prove helpful many a time. Always fix a particular |
| The first step towards successful mediation is | | | | time for yourself in which you don't have to do |
| 'focus'. Well, you would say 'I am not able to | | | | anything else except mediate. It can be early |
| focus my mind'. Then what! Simple, take an | | | | morning or a time when there is nobody in the |
| object that is near to you. Say, a candle. Keep | | | | house to disturb you. Stick to this routine and you |
| focusing on it till you become unmindful of | | | | will certainly get positive results. |
| everything else in the room except that candle. | | | | Remember, whenever you try to meditate, think |
| You can also stick a small red circle, cut out of | | | | of meditation as something that can be of |
| paper, on the wall and start focusing on it. | | | | immense benefit to you. That way you would |
| Alternatively, just imagine that you are alone in | | | | develop interest in it. If you just think it of as a |
| this world with no kind of worry to bother you | | | | hobby or something to pass time with, you can't |
| and then try to meditate. Try to delve deep | | | | go much further. It's a proven fact that people |
| within yourself. Another simple way can be to | | | | who meditate have lower stress levels and are |
| imagine that you are going out of this earth, out | | | | able to concentrate more even in very trying |
| of the solar system and finally out of the visible | | | | circumstances. |
| universe, where there is nothing but darkness as | | | | What to say about inner enlightenment and |
| far as you can see. Then, imagine a light that is | | | | spiritual growth! These things are beyond normal |
| noticeable (call it your God, though God is one but | | | | comprehension and only people who have delved |
| it feels convenient if we see Him in our | | | | deep into meditation can tell better about the |
| perspective) to you and focus on it. Your focus | | | | divine pleasure and contentment that they get |
| will improve for sure. | | | | out of it. |