| Beginners who want to learn how to meditate | | | | you to place your attention on counting your |
| effectively often come across a variety of | | | | breaths or on your posture but on your |
| meditation techniques that can leave them feeling | | | | connection with your higher self. It does not |
| frustrated and confused. There are variations in | | | | require you to sit cross-legged. You may do it |
| how long you need to meditate, whether you | | | | anywhere; you may lie down or be in any |
| need to sit in a certain posture, what to do to still | | | | comfortable position of your liking. |
| your mind and what to do with your breath while | | | | Placing your hands on your heart and soul area |
| you're in that posture, and what kinds of results | | | | (your sacred space) will help calm you so that you |
| to expect and when to expect them. | | | | may begin to hear and distinguish the still inner |
| Some techniques promise a reduction in your | | | | voice of your higher self (and its wisdom) from |
| stress level, while others make larger, global | | | | the thoughts and fears that are keeping you |
| promises. However, I suspect most beginners | | | | stuck. Your connection with your higher self is the |
| who want to learn how to meditate wish to | | | | object of your focus, not some outer sound or |
| experience results that increase the quality of | | | | forced mental picture or forced thought. |
| their life in a relatively short period of time. For | | | | Sometimes you will find that there is some back |
| example, an increase in new insights, favorable | | | | and forth, some inner "battle" between your inner |
| synchronicities, occurrences of flow, and outer | | | | guidance and your mental conditionings. What are |
| success. (This was my expectation when I began | | | | you going to feed? Work through the issues that |
| to learn how to meditate several years ago.) | | | | come up, have a dialogue with yourself, if that |
| After trying the standard meditation techniques | | | | helps. Write down your thoughts. Ask your higher |
| with little to no results, I eventually learned that it | | | | self to help you work through them. You may |
| wasn't how you sat or how you breathed that | | | | find that you work through your old conditionings |
| was important. It wasn't the breath or the mantra | | | | and fears in your dreams, for example. It is only |
| that was so important. It was whether your | | | | after you work through your conditionings (by, |
| meditation connected you to that "higher self" | | | | for example, gaining a greater awareness or |
| aspect of yourself and whether you then | | | | perspective about them) that they begin to leave |
| integrated that part of you into your life through | | | | you alone. |
| your actions. | | | | Of course once you begin to hear some inner |
| Most meditation techniques lack this important | | | | guidance you will need to follow through promptly |
| step. In fact, many meditation techniques ask that | | | | by taking action. Don't worry; you will not be |
| you invalidate any thoughts or sensations you | | | | required to make huge leaps if you're a beginner. |
| may have and return to some "silent source" or | | | | Most likely, your higher self will help you gain |
| some outer point of focus. But what if this source | | | | gradual trust in your connection by asking you to |
| wants to communicate with you? Besides, | | | | take baby steps. For example, if you get an |
| invalidating or dismissing any thoughts or | | | | intuitive hunch to call a colleague and the call |
| sensations you have invalidates you as well as | | | | happens to land you an interview or a job, you |
| your connection to your higher self (the source of | | | | will begin to have more confidence in your |
| your intuition), making you powerless in the | | | | connection. |
| process and easy to manipulate. (And hasn't this | | | | The more you do this, the more amazing insights |
| been humanity's experience for ages?) | | | | and results you'll attain and the more inner |
| Now I know that some of your thoughts may | | | | confidence you will have--this is the upward spiral. |
| feel silly to you at first, and some may bring up | | | | Integration with your higher self is your goal; it is |
| some fears, but your thoughts often come up | | | | the source of your spiritual awakening. It is what |
| because you need to work through them. You | | | | this "Great Shift" in consciousness (and what |
| need to work through them to get to the next | | | | "Christ consciousness," and the whole 2012 thing) |
| level, not to dismiss them. Your level of | | | | is about. The timing is perfect for this to happen |
| awareness, spiritual awakening and outer success | | | | now. |
| will increase when you work through things, not | | | | Learning how to meditate for beginners may |
| dismiss them or disidentify with them. | | | | seem difficult at first, but it is actually quite |
| How to Meditate for Beginners | | | | simple--if you release the things and techniques |
| With the help of the Counsel of Light I optimized | | | | that don't work and replace them with what's |
| a meditation practice that takes only 10 to 15 | | | | really important. |
| minutes, twice a day to do. It does not require | | | | |