Sometimes it seems the idea of meditation exercises are the work it takes to get into the lotus position and moreover, how to get out of it. But as you research various meditation approaches to find the one that is just right for you, you will find a variety of meditation exercises that combine the good of a physical discipline with the value that meditation can bring to your mind and spirit.

We now know that the mind and the body do not function independently from one another. That is why the heart of any good meditation exercise program is a good discipline of breath control. If you pay attention to athletes when they work out, you see them using breath control very effectively with they are striving for their goals as well. So we can combine a discipline of physical and meditation exercises to come away from our “work out” refreshed in more than one way.

Putting Yourself in the Right Frame of Mind.

Any exercise program, even a program of meditation exercises starts with mental preparation. The race, they say, is won in the mind. So as you prepare for your routine of meditation exercises, a short period of contemplation to look ahead at the work you are about to put your mind and body through is in order. It is during this time that you will do your initial breathing regimen that will put your body and your mind into a state of calm that you can draw from if your meditation exercise program is rigorous.

But more than that, you are starting the meditation part of the meditation exercise program which you are going to sustain throughout the physical element of the work out. At no time does it stop being meditation or stop being exercise. The combination of the two disciplines cleans your soul and body at the same time, which is tremendously invigorating and healthy.

Working Your Program

Once you have entered into a meditative state, you can begin the physical portion of your meditation exercise. You should select your physical exercises for both their physical value and for how they contribute to your contemplative state as well. As your exertion continues, you want your meditation exercise to remain unbroken and only helped by the physical stress you are putting yourself through. In ancient days, monks would stay in a state of meditation exercise for days because their duties were solitary and demanding and they could rise above them via their meditative disciplines which worked to both tune the mind and the body at the same time.

Solitary meditation exercises where you can continue your internal contemplations work better than social programs that not only would require you to focus on the interaction but could become disturbing to your sense of peace. As such basketball, while a fine sport in it’s own right, is not a good choice for a meditation exercise whereas long distance running or swimming is just right.

Endurance and Determination

With both meditation and exercise, when done separately, there is a level of determination that you are going to finish the standard that you set each day. You don’t start out meditating for an hour a day. It takes practice and the building of the mental “muscle” to have that kind of stamina to endure a meditation exercise of that length.

This is true of a physical endurance program as well. So when combining the two to design a meditation exercise program, you will use that preparation time to set the standard that you will reach and then reach it because there is a part of you deep down that is not going to accept less. That “toughness” both makes your meditation exercise program stronger, it is a direct outcome of the work you are doing to refine your sense of self, as is often the positive outcome of any meditation regimen.

Winning the Race

When you were first learning how to use the discipline of meditation, the focus was on learning how to enter, sustain and then finalize your contemplative state. But a silent “tension” of your purely contemplative part of meditation exercise is that you set a goal for each session. And meeting that goal gives you that sense of accomplishment and self worth that is part of the reward of the program.

This sensation of “winning the race” continues as you expand your program to include meditation exercise. Since physical exertion is even more measurable, you can set a goal a bit higher with each session or week and reach that goal giving you that short-term completion satisfaction that helps keep your program going.
But don’t forget that your sense of winning now is a combination of the joy of success at the physical level and the sustaining of your contemplative program throughout your exercise.

When one goes on without the other, the win is not complete. And like any program, continued patience, endurance, unwillingness to give up and determination will eventually give you the reward from both meditation and exercise and especially from the rewards that doing both will give you both in the short and long term.

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So You’ve Decided To Meditate?

Smart move.

Study after study after study confirms the benefits of meditation and the improved mental functioning you can expect. Regular meditators enjoy better perception, better memory, better focus and increased creativity for starters.

I’m sure you have questions about your meditation journey. Whether you’re a beginner or you’re experienced with meditation, most questions usually come down to one:

How Do Calm The Mind Or Go Deeper?

First, let’s talk about how meditation really works. When we meditate, we’re streamlining the flow of consciousness by giving the mind a something consistent to focus on.

The focus of attention can be any number of things. It can be a physical object like the flame of a candle for example. It can be something we perceive through one or more of the senses – the feeling or the sound of our breathing. The focus of attention can be the warmth in the tummy or the top of the head. It can be the sound of a piece of music. It can be a “mantra” – a short phrase that is repeated over and over.

The next step on your journey depends on where you are right now:

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If you are like me, if it takes relaxation meditation techniques to finally learn to let our hair down and relax, it sure is worth it. In life, we have many ways to relax including television, sports or just hanging out with family and friends. But the art of achieving real relaxation includes that capacity for achieving a calm that sometimes requires the discipline of a relaxation meditation technique.

Meditating has some powers to bring calm and peace that really cannot be achieved any other way. When we meditate, our mind is given the capacity to release the tension and care of the day and we ascend to a higher mental state. The skill of meditating is definitely more of an art than a science but it gives you the capacity to let go of concerns and not let them dominate your life or even your day.

The Very Best Relaxation Meditation Techniques

When you think about how most of us live our lives week after week, we really do leave the art of relaxation up to chance and whatever is on the tube that night. But every now and then, you meet someone who you can tell has an internal discipline, a mechanism to let go and return to that mental state of relaxation even if there is chaos all around them. If you know such a person, odds are they have taken some time to develop and practice some practical relaxation meditation techniques that really do work for him or her.

Your mental state and your capacity to calm down is far too important to leave to chance. By investing a little time in developing some proactive relaxation meditation technique, you are empowering yourself to fight back against the daily assault of tension and anxiety that can cripple you and keep you from being really productive and happy.

So let’s lay out a few starter ideas that can help you get your relaxation meditation techniques in place. Then once you are off and running, you will be enabled to build your arsenal from there.

Relaxation Meditation Technique #1 – Build a Room in Your Mind

The capacity to relax even under stress doesn’t just spring into existence. It is the result of your disciplined use of relaxation meditation techniques during your private hours. When you meditate, one of the methods you use is to create a serene place for your thoughts to go and calm down. Some call it “going to a happy place” but however you express it, you are making a reserved mental refuge where you can go when you need to enter into that contemplative state.

Think of it as building a room in your mind where troubles and anxiety are not allowed to go. You can do some positive visualization of that place and even see the color of the walls, what you see out the windows and what kind of art you have on the walls. The good thing about putting some creativity into your inner room is that it is there any time during the day that you need to take refuge for a moment to let go of the immediate stress and get control. It is a relaxation meditation technique that truly empowers your mental calm any time of the day.

Relaxation Meditation Technique #2 – Breath Man

Meditating, no matter what the variation of teaching you subscribe to, invariably instructs us to learn how to breathe. Have you ever noticed that when you get upset, anxious or afraid, the first thing that happens is your breathing becomes unsteady and shallow? How you breathe not only reflects your mental state, it can change your mental state. So by learning the art of breath control, you can put yourself into a meditative calm, even if you are not meditating alone in your quiet place.

As you become more experienced in meditating, learn to take joy in the positive effects the breathing exercising you do has on you. Then, once the art of meditative breathing comes natural, begin to utilize it outside of your moments of dedicated meditation. You will find that learning to use the capacity to bring calm through breathing can be a powerful resource for you during your busy day.

Relaxation Meditation Technique #3 – Make the Time

Probably the hardest thing about building a habit of routine meditation and learning relaxation meditation techniques is devoting the time each day to slip away and make it a priority to meditate. You must give it that kind of devoted time. Whether that means not hitting the snooze bar and getting up to start the day in the calm of meditating or letting everybody you know that a certain time at night is your moment to let go of everything else and meditate, its important that it is a time that is not up for grabs.

By being a disciplined and devoted disciple of relaxation meditation techniques, you are giving yourself the capacity to let meditation calm you any time of the day or night. It becomes more than a hobby you maintain so you can relax at night. It becomes a way of life.

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