A word about Breathing meditation
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If you look around meditation courses, almost all of them will star with something called Breathing Meditation. The idea is to focus deeply on your inhaling and exhaling breaths while meditating. The idea is to calm the mind and concentrate on developing the inner peace.
How to best use the Breathing Meditation ?
The trick is to stop all kinds of distractions around and make the mind clear and more lucid. A quiet place is needed along with a mat, preferably where you can be comfortable practicing the meditation. A crossed leg posture is usually what many meditator find especially comfortable. Sitting on a chair can also do but not that recommended. Try not to be lazy or sleepy.
Try sitting with eyes closed and start breathing deeply giving full attention to inhaling and exhaling process. Try to become aware of the sensation of the breath while it ents and leaves the nostrils. This particular feeling will go a long way in true deep meditation.
There will be distractions. Your mind will be continuously asking you to keep care of various things you need to do later on. This is a state where we are moving in a receptive, non-thought type of consciousness but still aware of the self and our surrounding environment. There will be a great temptation to follow the different thoughts as they arise. One should try resisting any distracting thoughts and immediately return to breath. Repeat the process many times until the mind becomes calm and the breath settled.
You’ll see that the thoughts are in your control as you go more and more experienced with this process. The distracting thoughts will subside and a sense of inner peace and relaxation will appear. The mind will feel lucid and spacious and refreshed. Try staying with mental calmness and through breathing meditation gain powerful peaceful states and attitudes in life.
Breathing meditation is the most basic form of meditation yet powerful and can help beat stress a long way. So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Doing this process for a few days each day will largely reduce stress. Our overall quality of life will improve.
