Meditation - The Art of Clearing your Mind Part 1 Articles | Meditation

The primary purpose of meditation is to make your body and mind relaxed and focused. A time-tested and proven method of relaxation, practicing this art is known to improve your awareness, enhance the ability to concentrate and improve your overall quality of health and life.

Though associated frequently with monks and mystics, because of its origin, you do not have to denounce the worldly pleasures to practice meditation. You can do it anywhere anytime suitable, which includes right in your living room.

While there are innumerable ways you can meditate, the fundamental principle of all approaches remain same. The principal objective of meditation is controlling the mind and relieving it of the numerous negative, degenerative and swaying thoughts and fantasies. You are calming the mind by clearing years of accumulated garbage, which many of us call memories. Once the mind is free of the persistent mental clamor, it calms down and makes us more focused. This paves way for more positive mental energy to flow in which channel our thoughts for renewed activities.

What the most common mental ‘pollutants’ which crowd our mind? Broken relationships, noisy neighbors, disturbing colleagues, unachieved professional or personal goals, and many other different types of negative thoughts are continuously being produced in the mental factory production line. Shutting them out can cleanse the mind so that it can focus more on more beautiful things in life.

There are some meditation enthusiasts who also shut out all the stimulants of the other senses like sound and tough to complete dissociate themselves from the surrounding. This allows you to concentrate on something profound or a deeper though, if you so desire. Sometimes it can leave you baffled as we are so used to hearing voices and other sounds, and seeing things all the time. But if you try and succeed in creating this ‘shut out’ situation, you will find yourself becoming more aware and conscious of all things that are around you.

It is possible that the several meditation postures which you see on television can be awe-inspiring. Those supple and seemingly invertebrate bodies impossibly arched or those bodies which sit in incredibly difficult positions need not worry you. The whole aim is top remain as comfortable as you feel in any position of your choice, so long as it helps you to concentrate. This could mean sitting cross-legged, standing, lying down, and even walking.

A good starting point could be any position which allows you to relax and concentrate. Ensure that your back is erect when in a sitting or a standing position and never tensed or taut. Positions which are not allowed are the slouched posture or where you might fall asleep.

Clothes you wear should be loose and not tight-fitting as these have a tendency to make you feel tensed and bottled up.