Overcoming Difficulty – Guided Meditation
Guided Meditation featuring music from Laughingtube.
One of the greatest obstacles that’s between you and your happiness is simply one word, stress.
By stress in difficulty meditating, I mean a feeling that you have in your mind of fear, anxiety, distress, worry, unease, or foreboding. This is caused by using your mind to imagine a bad outcome to past, present, or future event.
Let’s take a look at how to overcome stress and use meditation as a tool for creating the life you truly desire to live.
You have to remember things are just things, events are merely events, situations either good or bad are just situations. It is up to you to choose how you will react to the situation, meditation can help you.
Difficulty Meditating 101 – You can use meditation to control your thoughts and feelings.
Stress will never be completely gone in our lives because of all the negative feedback we have taken on, but by meditating we can eliminate the majority of it. The hard part of dealing with difficulty meditating is to eliminate stress is controlling our imaginations to have a happy outcome rather than a poor one.
You create your world by your own expectations, and you can influence your future by how you react to the present. If, as part of your meditation, you believe that every event will turn out to be to your benefit, stress will never enter into the picture.
Below are 5 Easy Meditation Techniques For Difficulty Meditating That You Can Use Today
I have spent a lot of time convincing people how meditation can change their lives. When they finally come to believe it, stress was largely gone from their lives.
Many of those whose lives had been nearly ruined by stress said that using meditation was the greatest gift that they have received. I know meditation is not a gift, but knowing how to control the stress in my life was just like the greatest gift I ever had.
If you always remember to stay in control of your thoughts, it will be near impossible to feel fear or stress.
You can get a great deal of comfort from meditation because your imagination is entirely under your control. It may sound crazy, but you can have every situation in your life under your control. Anyone can choose to control a bad situation or to turn the bad situation into a better situation. If you are still allowing the events that happened to you to still bother you, meditation will not help you and you will still have difficulty meditating.
You have to open your mind to understand how meditating will help you. You have got to get all the bad thoughts and anger you feel out of your mind before you start to use meditation.
Difficulty Meditating Tip: Do something that you feel good about or something that could make you so relaxed that you will let nothing bother you.
Once you can allow yourself to relax and feel good about yourself you will see that you can meditate on the good things that occurred in your day. Do this simple action instead of thinking about the things that happened during the day that upset you that you cannot change.
Meditation can help to clear your mind and give you such a relaxing feeling inside, which so many more people should try and conquer throughout their lives. This is something that is not harmful to you in any way. All you have to look forward to from here is living a much less stressful life and feeling better each day when you first step out of bed.
5 Easy Meditation Techniques For Difficulty Meditating:
Meditation may be a challenge for most people to do as simply a habit. But it is not as difficult as some may think. There are several easy meditation techniques that anyone can follow toward attaining a deeper sense of relaxation. Meditation is an effective weapon against banishing stress brought about by the rigors of life. You should try it out and here are the simple steps that you can follow to help you out.
Difficulty Meditating Tip #1: One of the first things is to find a place where you can sit comfortably.
It should also be someplace where you can have few distractions as possible. Distractions are not good when you are meditating since they can keep you from developing your focus and concentration. Once you get the hang of meditating by keeping away the distractions, you can also do your meditation while riding the train, bus or plane.
Difficulty Meditating Tip #2: After you have a place where you can do your meditation in comfort, you now need to choose a mantra.
It can be any word that you feel can help you feel relaxed and calm. Try to go with words for the mantra that really appeals to you. It can even be your own name as long as it helps you feel positive and be aware of your meditation.
Difficulty Meditating Tip #3: Once you have yourself comfortable and have chosen a mantra. Simply close your eyes and start repeating the mantra to yourself.
Let the mantra do what it wishes. If it is something that you wish to repeat it slowly, fast, quiet or loud, then do so. Try not to let outside thoughts to disturb you while you are doing this. Just ignore them and focus on repeating your mantra.
Difficulty Meditating Tip #4: As you repeat the mantra, try not to get distracted. Just be aware of what you are saying and focus on it.
Learn also to remain relaxed and calm as you do this. In time you might sometimes find yourself going off on a daydream and stop repeating your mantra. Just try to refocus and continue on with your meditation before you ward off any further.
The key to this simple meditation is trying not to let distractions come before you when you meditate.
It can be a bit hard sometimes to do first, but it will develop along the way. This will help you develop your focus as well as better awareness. After some time, stop repeating your mantra and remain quiet while you are still sitting comfortably. Do this for about a couple of minutes or so. Avoid getting up immediately after your meditation. It would be similar to jumping up just after having a deep sleep.
Difficulty Meditating Tip #5: The other key is to effectively make use of such easy meditation techniques. What you need to do is simply create a habit that supports your meditation practice.
Try to allow some free time in your schedule for your meditation. Making it a habit would make you improve your ability to keep out distractions when you do not need them. This meditation technique can be done in as little as ten minutes. It is not such a long time to spend on something that can provide you with a lot of benefits. Especially when it comes to battling everyday stress.
Candle Meditation is often used to help clear your mind. This will greatly increase your ability to focus. You can do this is by lighting a candle and focusing directly on the flame. You can try this meditation technique here from my podcast.
