People ask me all the time, Brendon, do you meditate? The answer is yes. I’ve been meditating for over a decade of my life.
I want to share with you how. One of my biggest frustrations when I started learning to meditate was how complicated it was, because honestly, I would read entire books on how to meditate and they’d never teach you. They just talked about how meditation is great and the evidence is conclusive.
It is the magic method for improving people’s lives mentally and psychologically, and many people would argue spiritually as well.
I’m going to teach you a very basic tool and strategy for meditation that’s caught on. I’m really honored about it - it’s called ‘the release meditation technique’
It’s so straightforward and easy that anybody can do it. It’s mantra based like most of the great meditational techniques that they’ve been able to prove by science to give an actual psychological effect over a period of time.
This means basically I’m going to give you a word and you’re going to focus on that word with your eyes closed and your whole focus is simple: to have that word repeating in your mind over and over again very softly.
I’ll give you the rhythm that’s been proven to work really well, and you’ll repeat [the mantra] with that rhythm over and over, even when thoughts come up, which they inevitably do when you’re meditating.
Many people say, “I can’t meditate - my brain’s too active.” It’s by meditating that you learn to slow down and control and master your brain.Often when you close your eyes your brain is like a big stirring and lots of things are going to come up. That’s okay. That’s going to happen in your first couple sessions and maybe in your first couple weeks of meditation, but at some point, less and less thoughts come up and now you’ve returned to the mantra and you find yourself in this bliss state where they show your brain waves get in a better position/frequency to literally allow you to feel better afterwards.
Sometimes your first couple of meditations you might not feel anything, and it’s a nice quiet, a break from the day. Whereas, other times you will find that you feel incredibly refreshed and renewed.
My technique, what I do personally in my practice of meditation is 20 minutes of this mantra-based technique, ‘the release meditation technique’, and I like to do the 20 minutes twice a day.
I encourage you to do it as a practice twice a day. Maybe you do it in the morning and at lunch. Or maybe you do it at lunch and when you get home from work. Find spots to do it.
You don’t have to do it twice a day - just begin, just start. Try and do it daily.
Give yourself a 10-day meditation challenge.
During the next 10 days you’re going to meditate at least once for 20 minutes, following the release meditation technique and you will find your psychological health. You’ll feel it. It’s a sensation, a presence, an aliveness and freshness that most people have never experienced in their lifetime!For more information or full transcript of the video please click on the link here:
http://brendonburchard.tumblr.com/post/95006757308/how-to-meditate-release-meditation-technique
Please share it with your friends and start to practice this every day and this way you are starting a new habit and ritual before you start your day and finish the day!
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