Meditation isn’t hard. I mean, you’re doing what’s hard right now: you’re living a human life. For me, mediation gives me a reprieve from that for a little while and takes me back to who I really am — a soul. This isn’t inherently hard to do, but because of our attachments to our human lives, we often struggle to truly sit still and look inward. This is why I became certified to teach meditation and help people understand how to meditate to transform their lives.
People have told me over the years many reasons why they gave up meditating. Others say they meditate using a guide of some kind — a structure. But I want to tell you how to do it in a way that really makes a lasting impact on your whole existence.
You can transform your life through meditation. You can do something big right now and start a meditation practice.
I teach meditation to beginners that allows them to use a mantra as a vehicle toward inner stillness. I am a certified Primordial Sound Meditation instructor. But I have been meditating for years without a mantra or any aid from guided meditations. But I know that for a lot of people, it’s essential to provide some kind of tool. It’s often too daunting to sit in silence and have anything productive happen. That’s why I got certified to teach meditation.
I want everyone to be able to enjoy meditation as much as I have. I want to make it accessible, effortless, and fun. As I start offering my classes again, I wanted to give some background information about how meditation can transform you.
Find a Method That Works for You
Listening to music or guided words is a distraction. Guided meditations may be great for the inexperienced beginner, but it’s time to level up. To find stillness, you should find a method that works for you anywhere and anytime. It should remove distractions and bring you into total silence.
The personal mantra that I give to my students in my course is a vehicle to the stillness. It means nothing in particular, it is unique to each student’s vibrational signature, and it can be released when stillness is reached. It’s something that becomes effortless to repeat over and over and yet you have control over it at the same time. You can turn it off when you don’t need it anymore. I think it’s a great way to learn to meditate.
Set an Intention to Reach Stillness
There is a place within you that doesn’t move in the way that we move in our day-to-day. It’s hard to explain. It is still. It is motionless. It’s a loving place. Thoughts slow down and things make sense. There’s internal harmony with the rest of the universe there.
If you can tap into this stillness, you’ve got it made.
You may have never felt this stillness before, so you don’t even know what you’re seeking. But when you feel it, you know.
To get there, you must at least intend to find it in your practice. Before meditating, tell yourself that’s where you’re headed. Although meditation and bliss involve the act of letting go completely and not doing — the opposite of doing — there is also an element of doing something. It’s the paradox of meditation.
So, while you’re still at this level of consciousness, before meditating, you can do something: set that intention.
Regular Practice
Meditation benefits you when it’s done regularly. Doing it sporadically isn’t going to hurt anything, and may give you temporary relief from stress, but a regular practice brings you closer and closer to stillness.
The waking mind remembers. It gets into a habit. You can train it to be calmer and calmer every day by going back into the stillness — or as close as you can get to it — regularly.
When you go to that place, you bring a little of that stillness back with you every time. Imagine doing this repeatedly for months and how much calmer your day-to-day life would be! It’s incredible. Stress can’t touch you easily, and the world just seems like a wonderful and glorious place. Regular meditation is worth it.
Join my next meditation course and learn how to meditate to transform your life forever.
Hi, I’m Emily. In addition to writing, I also teach meditation, read tarot, create podcasts, and I’m a spiritual coach. For more about me, have a look at what I offer. If this writing helps you, you’re always welcome to buy me a coffee.
