Meditation Part 2: A Deep Dive.

Interesting in committing more to a stillness practice?
Think about a more diverse set of practices that can flex around your needs, your lifestyle. Hardcore, focus-on-breath meditations for long durations can make anyone feel like it is too much to handle, so why start there in the first place?

Here are a few keys to help you with your stillness:

1. Active or passive,

   Listening to someone else’s meditation track is passive, you are guided. Paying attention to your breath is very active. That which you do off your own steam is always more active and more stimulating for the brain. Passive allows us exposure to other people’s ways and ideas.

2. Areas of the brain,

   Try adding in elements to stimulate your brain in a few of these ways: social, visual, spatial, linguistic, emotional, kinaesthetic , reflective, planning.

3. Accordion practice,

   You come home from a tough day, you are already tired. Now you have to do some active meditation? No thanks, switch on netflix and try recharging. Well, how about listening to your needs and making adjustments based on this? Need recharging? Try a passive, short meditation based on smiling and focusing on what you love? Have at least a few different stillness ideas to plug into your life to suit your needs.

The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it. 

- 14th Dalai Lama

References

• My meditations

• Free Throw Visualization Study