Mediation has become a trend among individual who need to improve their health or want to live a healthy lifestyle. This article elaborates some methods of mediation to improve your health.
Preparation
Before sitting for mediation, it is advised to have a quiet room with no disturbance. Moreover, eating less and minimizing the least interactions. Do not let the thought of harassment, good or bad thing, nor the party against the other. Please stop the artifacts of the mind. Those advices are not only true in mediation but through the whole day.
You should start meditating in the early morning as it is a beginning of a new day, when life has just woken up during a long night. Before exercising, let’s eat a healthy breakfast and in appropriate loose clothing.
Meditating
Burmese position
The first and easiest way is to sit in Burmese position, both legs are placed diagonally across the cushion.
Half Lotus position
Half-naked posture is to put the left leg on the right thigh. However, it can be changed, the left leg can be placed under and the right leg placed on the left thigh.
Full Lotus position
The whole lotus position is the legs are locked together, first put the right foot on the left thigh and bring the left foot on the right thigh. Pull your legs in the body to sit longer. Two hands to the soles of the feet, the fingers overlap, the two fingers touching each other in the umbilical cord, the elbows are hugging the hip is okay.
The backbone is completely upright, neither tilted to the left nor tilted to the right, neither bent forward nor tilted backwards, the ear is straight to the shoulders and nostrils at the navel. The tongue touches the upper jaw, mouth, eyes open. This is the correct, most effective and effective meditation posture. However, the most important thing of sitting meditation is concentration.
Those above are the simplest meditations. Beside paying attention to meditation techniques, meditator should also pay attention to breathing so that he breathes deeply with his nose full of abdomen and then breathes out with his mouth gently. Mouth to mouth, lips and teeth fit together, tongue up. From here onwards, just breathe through your nose, and gently do not try.