Mediation can bring you plenty of benefits such as, improving your focus, lower anxiety levels, better memory recall, reduction of stress, relaxes your body and makes you feel happier and more alert through the day.

The traditional way
This technique is better doing either early in the morning or late at night before going to bed. Because sometimes mornings can be chaotic, later at night might be best.

Find a calm and silent part of the house and get in a comfortable position to start. You can either be sitting down with your legs crossed or laying down on the ground. Just make sure you are comfortable and that you won’t fall asleep.

Aim to Meditate for at least 5 minutes and increase this time gradually through sessions. It will feel that you’ve been sitting for a long time when just two minutes had passed so put a timer on your phone, now you can relax and stop thinking that you are spending too much time.

Close your eyes and slowly begin inhaling through your nose. Feel your lungs expanding as air enters them. Open your mouth and slowly exhale. Feel the faint pressure on your chest as the air leaves your body. If after a while you sound like Dart Vader breathing, you are doing it right.

Focus only on your chest and lungs, try to keep your mind blank without any thoughts. Your mind will roam freely, especially in the beginning, simply acknowledge that you are losing focus and drift your attention back to your chest.

When your time is over keep your eyes closed, slowly start moving your fingers then arms and legs. Opening your eyes afterwards. Do you feel good? Great!

Running as a form of meditation
This is one of my favourites and easier than other techniques. Simply because you won’t think that you are wasting time by standing still. Plus, you will be working both your mind and body, it’s a win-win situation.

Start in a quiet park without too many people. You want to be able to focus on what you are doing and, an empty park is the ideal place because there won’t be anything to distract you.

Begin by running in a slow pace, when you are comfortable try taking two short inhales through your nose each time your foot touch the ground. The next two steps exhale twice through your mouth. Doing one step — inhale, one step — inhale, one step — exhale, one step — exhale.
You will want to increase your pace so this breathing is in tandem with your pace and feels more natural.

When this breathing technique and pace seems natural and you feel more comfortable, you will realize that your mind is completely silent, this is nothing else but you, your pace, your breathing and your music. Keep going until you are tired from running and threat yourself with a nice warm shower afterwards.

Focus on a point
This technic is great because you can do it anywhere using only a few minutes. You can even do it on your work to regain your focus and take some of the stress off your shoulders and regain a bit of your sanity.

A quiet place would be ideal. But, if you can’t find a place, simply try to ignore the loud mess around you. Choose an object, photo or something else and focus your gaze on it. Keep starting at the point you’ve chosen for a few minutes while breathing slowing, inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth.

Got any other techniques?
These are the three technics I use, do you use another technic that is great? Please share it, I would love to hear and try it!