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Simple Meditation Guidelines for Beginners
Meditation can be very simple if we don’t put too much pressure on ourselves.
If learning to meditate is one of your intentions for this year, here are some meditation guidelines to bear in mind. Because it’s quite common that people’s preconceptions don’t match their experience….
They expect to have a still mind….and their mind remains busy.
They expect to feel bliss…and they experience boredom.
They expect to have a profound experience…and they don’t.
They expect it to be something other than it turns out to be…and they are disappointed.
If you’re just starting out with meditation, I would suggest you lower your expectations before you even start.
Meditation can be very simple if we don’t put too much pressure on ourselves to have any particular experience, achieve an altered state, feel completely relaxed and blissed out.
Go into the practice with no expectations whatsoever around what you may experience.
Instead, go into it with the simple intention to do it for an agreed upon (with yourself) time period and stick with that, even if you feel bored and want to…