Learn meditation with our meditation online course
Build your own practice of meditation – and find inner contentment
In this meditation online course we teach good, useful, beneficial meditation, a skill which, with regular practice, yields powerful results over time.
I’m not writing here about listening to a guided meditation piece with someone talking hypnotically, or playing soft music and tuning out, or going for a run, or walking with the dog, although people often say they get the same benefits. Real meditation, as seasoned meditators would recognise it, is a silent, still, focused practice which one learns and builds over time.
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In this self-paced meditation online course, we describe practical steps to help you build your own meditation practice.
The kind of meditation described here could start with some guided spoken introduction, as in the recordings on this course, but the aim would be for you to then conduct the meditation without any aids, and then, later on, to not have any external stimulus.
The course covers the following key areas.
Location
- Creating a comfortable, quiet place where you know you won’t be interrupted, perhaps a dedicated room for the purpose
- Having suitable seating, not some deep armchair where sleep is more tempting but one with a good back support or, if on the floor, with a small cushion or meditation stool.
Time and frequency
One could start with 10 minutes a day, increasing to say 20 minutes and then to half an hour. You might want to do it at first once a day, but people often do it twice a day, or have one expanded session a day. One can expand the time according to what is desired, like say 40 minutes or an hour, or just keep it at half an hour.
Morning at dawn is a good time, as in the photo!
Every day! That way you can start to feel the benefit. Gaps between meditations tend not to encourage the regularity that works. With a regular practice you can more easily slip into the mediation. It’s like you’ve picked up from last time.
How to sit
It doesn’t have to be as you see in the pictures, perched precariously on a rock cross-legged with your arms outstretched (and some do!)
- Yes, you can sit reasonably upright, which can help limit the tendency to sleep.
- You could adopt one of the classic poses, such as the lotus pose that one sees in lots of photos, with perhaps the hands in chin mudra, which requires sitting on the floor, usually with a cushion.
- You can however simply sit upright in your chair with your hands resting in your lap, one on top of the other, facing upwards, which is what I do.
How to start your meditation
There is an art to gently starting a meditation, to relax, calm your mind and take your awareness within. After all, it is the great inner peace and stillness that many meditators seek.
- How to use the breath
- Relaxing into your meditation and letting go
- How the breath acts as a focus
- Taking your awareness within and finding a still, calm space
- You could rest like that, simply breathing – and being calmly aware. At peace.
During your meditation
Techniques to help you get the best out of your meditation and to manage the mind
- Using the breath
- How a mantra works
- Dealing with a wandering or busy mind
- Guided introductions to help you get started
- Staying on track with your intention to meditate regularly
It’s a discipline
It’s a discipline, closing your eyes, breathing deeply and then gently and steadily, focusing on the breath, taking your awareness within, finding a quiet place. Sitting still, calmly, relaxed. Being present.
- Learning to not make an issue over your thoughts but be the watcher of your thoughts, rather than the thinker. It’s about stepping back from thoughts. Gradually they can fade into the background.
- Gradually you can enjoy more and more the inner stillness and contentment that gradually builds with the practice.
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