Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Meditation Exercises –The Best Way To An Empowered Mind

By: Jordan Cheng
To be successful in life, you need an empowered mind.

You can spend money on health supplements or any brain food that improve your brain and mind power, which may or may not be effective. However, the best way to an empowered mind need not cost you anything. It is free! It is achievable through meditation exercises.

Millions of people around the world have been practicing meditation, and have found meditation exercises to be an effective way to develop an empowered mind that is critical for achieving success in life. However, contrary to what it seems, mastering the skill can be a challenging task for most people. Many people who attempted meditation for the first time discovers just how hard it can be if the person’s mind is weak. The most critical tool you'll need to master this important life skill is your mind. Just like any worthwhile skills, it requires regular practice, review and refinement to reap its best potential.

Regular practice of meditation exercises can develop an empowered mind in many ways, such as building patience, relaxation, observation, perception, concentration, and focus. Meditation can also help bring changes to your mind and body for the purpose of self-benefit, such as helping you to lose weight, quit smoking, reduce stress and depression, healing, overcome pain, regulate your body temperature, and much more.

Beyond the physical health benefits, meditation can even make you more receptive and sensitive to outside energy fields, improving your psychic intuition. Meditation is truly a miraculous skill. Unfortunately, most people failed to realize its powerful benefits due to incorrect way of practicing this exercise.

To most people, meditation is nothing more than sitting cross-legged on the floor quietly with eyes closed and began the breathing exercise. The key point to remember in performing the meditation exercises is to feel comfortable. It does not matter whether you are sitting on the floor, lying on the bed, or sit on a chair, as long as it does not get too comfortable to the extent that you may fall asleep.

Step 1: Control Your Breathing As A Concentration Exercise

The first step to learning meditation is to learn how to control your breathing. This may sound simple and feels boring at times, but the key here is to prepare your physical and mental state by bringing them to the state of deep relaxation. One thing to caution is not to control your breathing too consciously. As you move into the deep meditative state, you want to turn your focus from consciously breathing to deeply meditating.

Tools like soft music, candles, and incense can be used during meditation to increase its effect. However, using tools is not a must if you prefer a simple plain breathing control exercise to bring you into the meditative state. When using music, you must pick something pleasing to the ears but not powerful music like heavy metal or rock. Also, the key point to remember is to choose music that won't distract you. You should choose music with only melody and not any lyrics. Incense is also helpful but takes some preparation on its own. Incense helps you relax, but do make sure that ventilation in the room is good. You don’t want to get throat irritation during meditation as a result of smoke building in the room.

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Jordan Cheng is the author of mind-power-for-success.com You can learn how to better develop your mind power to achieve Success and Wealth in life. He is contactable at mindjordan@gmail.com

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