How to Meditate If You Have No Idea What To Do

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I’ve been meditating for 4+ years and…

it’s really the most effective tool to improve your mental health.

It helps to prevent so much problems.

But there are so many styles that it’s a very confusing habit to start.

- Breathing meditations

- Visualisations

- Affrimations

- ...

After 4+ years of experience I figured out that I liked 2 styles best.

I’ll teach them to you, simply.

1. What they are

2. How to use them

3. When I use which 


What happens when you don’t meditate? Accidents happen.

Ralf Smart 


2 styles

Two words: breathing, visualisations.

Those are the two.



Breathing:

Breathing meditations are supposed to be simple.

Many gurus just over complicate it. So here’s how you really do it.

Pick one spot in your body. Zoom in on that spot as much as possible. For me right now, that’s my left armpit.

Then, feel that spot as much as possible.

Try to feel every millisecond of the sensation. That’s it.

When you get distracted, come back to that spot. Again. Again. And again.

The ‘when’ is also simple.

The perfect timing for this style is when you are in a bad emotional state. Focusing on your breath calms the mind.

It helps to deal with your emotions by confronting them — not by avoiding them.

 

Visualisation

I have a mindset-geek friend… this guy is crazy.

He spends like 2 hours a day in visualization. He says it helps him to stay aligned with the person he wants to be.

Now, I’m no mindset geek. So I’ll just copy what the best does (and see if it works).

The way he does this is by visualizing himself succeed in a goal. Either a long-term one (like becoming a millionaire) or a short term one (like not getting distracted during a work session).

Then sit down and visualize every second of that moment of success. In that moment, add as much details as possible.

Also don’t go overboard. You will need to face challenges in life — so add them in the visualisation too.

And you repeat this sequence for as long as the timer goes.

There’s also a specific time to visualize (call it the x2 XP).

You want to do it to help you achieve a goal or an ideal.

Yesterday I visualized myself avoiding Youtube after my dinner (I did this before I ate). And guess what happened. Instead of going to my phone, I sat down to write — just as I planned it in my mind.

That’s the point of visualisation: setting up your mind for success.

Now I don’t know all the benefits of visualisation yet.

But what I can say is that this style of meditation gives you the mental practice you need to succeed.

 

Last words

Combining meditation and visualisation is powerful.

Once you nail meditation, life’s problems become easier to deal with.

There’s a reason this habit gets recommended by 97,5% of the self-improvement community.

Anyways, I have one last thing to tell you.

Remember I told you when to practice breathing and visualisation? Well that’s not always true.

Sometimes, you just want to sit down, meditate and unplug.

When you feel like that, there’s no rule — pick any.

What’s important is just to meditate. You don’t have to complicate it.

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