Why Meditate?

This is a perfect time to change our mind, out old habits and bad behaviors, let’s see this situation as an opportunity to reconnect within ourselves, an opportunity to see everything with a different perspective.

I want to invite you to feel better than you ever felt before, to find that person that peace regardless the situation that we are living today. Us as humans beings, we have the ability to accomplish whatever’s we put in our mind, we are capable to change our entire life if would we decide to do it!, I want to invite you to have the experience of being in peace within yourself, to feel and see a light in all this nowadays darkness.

“Meditation”

Many would love to meditate. Few actually do. Many of us have heard of the numerous benefits of the practice. Few know these benefits are verified by rigorous scientific research. Many say they’ll start tomorrow. Few actually follow through.

Why Not Meditate?

So what’s keeping you from taking advantage of the benefits of meditation? Maybe you have formed a wrong idea that you couldn’t possibly meditate. The “many” who think about meditating but never have done it usually have a list of reasons why they just can’t. I want to show you that meditation really doesn’t demand that much of you. Simply slow your body and quell your mind, and being in that state we find within ourselves.

The pure connection between our body, mind and spirit is the code for everything, one of my favorite philosophers the Ancient Greek, Pythagoras, who said:

-“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

And it’s being proved and showed for philosophers, religionists, scientist, etc., that if we find the consciousness to connect this three concepts, we achieve to, as Pythagoras said, “command ourselves “. For centuries and thanks to all this conscious minded people, we are able to see and understand, or at least how I see it, the biggest human paradigm.

Said all this, I am comfortable with saying that there’s this mystical shroud surrounding meditation. It’s assumed by far too many persons that meditation involves some formula, some secret code word for you to gain results. And even if you know this, you protest and say how am I gonna be bending my legs in a contortionist fashion.There’s not excuse, you can easily be sitting on a chair with your feet flat on the floor or lying down on your back.

Have you decided?

If so, I invite you to start doing it, In as little as five minutes a day, you may be establishing an atmosphere for your health and well-being to flourish through the stilling of your mind. Trust me, eventually you will love to feel that peace inside you and the connection of yourself with the universe.

I’m leaving a small step-by-step tutorial for whoever is interested, or even if you have nothing else to do during this pandemic isolation, doesn’t mean this is the only way to get to meditate, there’s tons of guided and not guided meditations, find the one suits better for you, and any way you want to do it, laying down, or on the lotus position, the worst that can happen is to get better and better.

-First, find a comfortable place where you can focus and will not be disturbed or interrupted-

https://youtu.be/taJ7Rb3qgi8 ( meditation music)

Step 1.

Take a deep breath and relax, with your eyes open or closed.
Be aware of sounds around you coming and going, and let them be whatever they are. This is the simple first step in your practice of mindfulness meditation.
Keep taking in and releasing slow, deep breaths, while being aware of it.

Step 2.


Close your eyes and drop all your concerns now, like setting down a heavy bag.
After the meditation, you can pick those up again — if you want to. Realize you are allowing yourself this time to move away from worldly worries.

Step 3.

Now focus on your breath. Bring your whole awareness to the sensation of your breathing.
Sense the cool air coming in and the warm air going out. Feel the chest rising and falling, the belly expanding and contracting. Don’t try to control your breath; let it be whatever it is, flowing in and out of its own.

Step 4.

Start counting your breaths softly — count from one to ten, and then start over.
Start back from one if you notice you missed the sequence before reaching number ten, because your mind had wandered.
It’s normal for the mind to wander. And when it does, just return to counting the breaths again from the start. Be gentle on yourself, letting go of all self-criticism.

Step 5.

Get more and more absorbed in your breathing. Start to notice the volume, speed, warmth and sound of the breath traveling in and out of your nostrils.
Once your mind settles down during the first few minutes, you will find it easier to focus your attention on the air as it travels deeper, in through the wind-pipe and into your lungs, and back out again. Open your whole consciousness to the simple process of breathing.

Step 6.

Now, bring your attention to the presence of the thoughts that are moving through your mind, trying to pull your attention away from your breath. Take notice of them.This is the most important step of practicing mindfulness meditation.
Let yourself be aware of those thoughts and feelings, wishes and plans, images and memories. Your streams of thoughts will keep alluring your mind away from your breath. Tell yourself: I’m noticing my thoughts, yet I’m not getting carried away by them.
As Russ Harris says, “First, mindfulness is a process of awareness, not thinking.”
Don’t get caught up or fascinated in them to start thinking yourself away. But also, don’t struggle with them. The idea is to sit with your thoughts and let them be whatever they are.
Most of all, just notice their impermanence as they finally fade off. And yet have an attitude of acceptance toward those free-flowing thoughts.
Each time you catch yourself being dragged away by a thought, gently bring back your focus to your breath — again and again.

Step 7.

Feel a growing sense of peacefulness within as you keep settling into the breath with more focus.
Notice how it feels to get caught up in the passing contents of awareness—and how it feels to let them go by. Be aware of peaceful awareness itself.
Once you’re there in the state of peaceful awareness, you may decide to sit in that state for as long as you want.
Finally, you may bring the meditation to an end by opening your eyes, stretching out your hands and getting up.