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If you are interested in Learning How To Meditate, I suggest you take your interest seriously.

Falling short of signing up for a local course in your neighborhood, it is possible to integrate meditation into your daily existence and know you are doing it correctly – by signing up for the Learn How To Meditate course offered below.

It has been created by Anmol Mehta, who runs one of the web’s best Yoga and Meditation portholes.

Anmol is indeed a master of the art – and has been teaching simple spiritual concepts for many years. At the request of his subscribers, he combined his amazing knowledge into a concise manual designed specifically for beginners.

Do you think the caterpillar knows what it will become as it retreats from the world into its cocoon?

Or it is a grand gesture of faith – and it simply trusts that everything will be OK in time?

The reason that I ask is that I have metaphorically been in a cocoon over the last several months and I am wondering what is to come.

‘Empty Mind’ is the primary goal of most meditation programs.

Once you are able to hold the state of no thought, it becomes possible to focus your mind indefinitely on one point.

You become able to enter higher meditations easily and remain in them.

Buddhists call empty mind meditation Vipassana, or Anapanasati. They devote themselves to years, sometimes an entire lifetime, of dedicated practice to achieve the state where thoughts disappear completely or no longer arise.

Let’s try something more Traditional … because Amazing things can happen on a personal level when practicing meditation in its simplest form.

No guide to walk you through the process… No music to keep you focused. This is how meditation was practiced in the early days. With focus on an object, mantra or breath… or no focus at all.

I do not believe any one form of meditation is superior to another. They are all beautiful in themselves. True, some people have a better experience with a specific method – but that choice is personal – not universal.  I do encourage the exploration of all forms, even if you have a favorite.

Imagine a child in a 40 flavors Ice-Cream shop trying to convince everyone that chocolate is better than the rest. When asked how many of the 40 flavors he had tried, he answered ‘one’.

Although I have worked full-time as a professional massage therapist for over 3 years, the desire to benefit society and be of service has been there much longer.

(Blurry Dream-Sequence Montage…)

Way, way back … just after the turn of the century (2001) I attended an 8-week introduction to meditation course at a local community college. It really did change my life. So many of the concepts pried my mind open like a crowbar in a door jamb.

How had I lived for so long with NO awareness?
And why isn’t EVERYONE on this bandwagon?

But something very special, mentioned during the course, drew my attention like a young man made of steel to a magnet factory.

While many of the goals or desires from both practices overlap, there are distinct differences between hypnosis and meditation which should be clarified.

Hypnosis is appropriate if you have a specific goal you wish to achieve. Be it to regress to a point in our life that has caused trauma, or for a specific desire, such as to stop smoking.

Traditional Meditation is less structured, in that clearing the conscious mind allows thoughts or feelings to surface, while trying not to attach to the emotion of them.

If you want to download meditation you have come to the right place.

Explore Meditation has a variety of guided meditations you can listen to, watch and download.

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These Guided Meditations cover a wide variety of topics, including;

• Physical Relaxation
• Energy Awareness
• Healing
• Spiritual Growth
• Psychic Protection
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Meditation Method for Accessing the Quiet Place Within – by DavidPaul Doyle

A quiet mind is a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind is a mind that is joined in awareness with its Source.

There are many ways to quiet your mind to become aware of your Source — to become aware of the Presence of Love within you. Some of the methods we typically hear about include: doing what we love, listening to music, being in nature, being present with another or with an activity we are engaged in, and consciously breathing. All of these examples, and any other example that helps us to quiet our minds, have something in common — they are all demonstrations of relating with love.

When we relate to anything with love, we are joined in awareness with our Source, which is Love.

Just the other day I got in a Fight!

I was out near my Worm Farm, transplanting a few cherry tomato seedlings when it all began.

I had a bag of potting mix between my knees, both hands full of dirt and BAMMO!

One of the neighbor’s bees lined me up and took me down with one hit (but not before I squealed hysterically, ran in circles and threw dirt everywhere).

I was stung on the top of my cheek, just below my right eye. I was home alone and a little worried about the effects, as I had been stung on my foot a few years previous and my whole leg swelled. Luckily, this time, Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation saved a disaster. My face did swell a little – but only enough to cut some vision and make me look a little chubby. But the worst thing of all – It hurt when I smiled.

I recently had the opportunity to ‘get away’. Some people think I’m crazy when I tell them, but yes, I went camping by myself.

No I didn’t get bored, I wasn’t scared and I wasn’t worried about the many things that could have gone wrong. It was 4 days and three nights of bliss.

I love my computer and the many wonderful things it can do, but no achievement by man has come close to the efforts of Mother Nature. She combines a million factors in balance and no where is the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth more apparent.

For some of you the perfect holiday may be sitting beside a pool on a deck chair ordering a few fancy drinks. And don’t get me wrong – that would be lovely too, but let me tell you quickly about the Bunya Mountains.

Using a meditation cushion when you meditate can be a great way to enhance your practice.

Sarah Neil is a mentor and friend who runs a weekly spiritual development circle.

It starts with a bite to eat and general conversation, moves into specific discussion and psychic exercises, and we finish with a meditation.

When the lights dim and she says, ‘get ready’, we all scamper to assume the position that suits us best.