3 Meditation Tricks When Your Mind Begins To Wander
Meditation is time dedicated to being present and aware of your oneness with God/Spirit/Consciousness.
About 15% of the time you're probably able to drop into this zone and just buzz along.
You come out of there in another world and everything hums along.
The other 85% of the time you might find yourself in a struggle, trying tolet go of your plans, dreams, arguments, and task lists.
For the 85% of the time, I have a few tricks to sink into a meditative state.
First, I focus on my breath.
This is the simplest thing you can do to reel your attention in.
As you breathe in, feel the air in your nostrils, down the airways, filling your lungs.
As you breathe out, feel your lungs relax and the air press out your nose.
Just watch it for sometime until it evaporates and you fall like a leaf in a soft place.
Your mind will be clear.
When focusing on my breath does not work, I think an affirmation.
I might say something like, "God is, I am," or "Let go, let God.
"I repeat the affirmation like a mantra.
If my mind is really noisy, I say it out loud.
I slow the pace of the affirmation and lower the volume from speaking, to a whisper, to a thought.
As the pace and volume of the affirmation slows and lowers, so to does my mind.
Eventually, the words are not thought, just felt.
Soon after, I find myself in a meditative state, present, and at one with all.
Another technique I use to still my mind is to watch my thoughts.
I imagine that I am lying on the ground looking up at them like clouds passing by.
In the beginning I find myself sticking with a particular cloud as it passes.
When I notice that I am drifting with a particular cloud, I remind myself to continue to watch the clouds pass by.
After sometime I close my eyes in my imagination so that I can't see the clouds passing.
Soon after, I fall into the meditation.
You can use these tools at any time to become present, even with your everyday tasks outside of meditation.
About 15% of the time you're probably able to drop into this zone and just buzz along.
You come out of there in another world and everything hums along.
The other 85% of the time you might find yourself in a struggle, trying tolet go of your plans, dreams, arguments, and task lists.
For the 85% of the time, I have a few tricks to sink into a meditative state.
First, I focus on my breath.
This is the simplest thing you can do to reel your attention in.
As you breathe in, feel the air in your nostrils, down the airways, filling your lungs.
As you breathe out, feel your lungs relax and the air press out your nose.
Just watch it for sometime until it evaporates and you fall like a leaf in a soft place.
Your mind will be clear.
When focusing on my breath does not work, I think an affirmation.
I might say something like, "God is, I am," or "Let go, let God.
"I repeat the affirmation like a mantra.
If my mind is really noisy, I say it out loud.
I slow the pace of the affirmation and lower the volume from speaking, to a whisper, to a thought.
As the pace and volume of the affirmation slows and lowers, so to does my mind.
Eventually, the words are not thought, just felt.
Soon after, I find myself in a meditative state, present, and at one with all.
Another technique I use to still my mind is to watch my thoughts.
I imagine that I am lying on the ground looking up at them like clouds passing by.
In the beginning I find myself sticking with a particular cloud as it passes.
When I notice that I am drifting with a particular cloud, I remind myself to continue to watch the clouds pass by.
After sometime I close my eyes in my imagination so that I can't see the clouds passing.
Soon after, I fall into the meditation.
You can use these tools at any time to become present, even with your everyday tasks outside of meditation.
