meditation

Here are three links for meditation guidance that will benefit you, even if you do not meditate. Sit on a beach watching the waves roll in. Relax on a reclining chair and notice your breath. Go to any quiet outdoor spot and stretch out on a blanket to watch the clouds. As you focus your attention on the waves, your breath or passing clouds, this is meditation. You release all that stuff of the day. Perhaps Deepak's guidance will further your enjoyment of those relaxing moments!

• Deepak Chopra's Secrets of Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation
• Deepak Chopra explains The Mechanics of Meditation
• Sit with back erect, be comfortable and relaxed, feet on the floor, hands resting in your lap.
• Think, remember or listen to a mantra without too much focus. Force nothing. Or, watch the breath and remember 'I am'. You have to let it happen.
• For 20-30 minutes, mantra and thoughts cancel each other and you reach pure potentiality, the gap where you experience nothing (you are non-local).
• It is a wakefulness that you will experience in waking, dreaming -- it will never leave you.
• Deepak Chopra's Top 8 Meditation Tips
• Morning meditation energizes you.
• Before evening meal is good.
• Find your best time. (Deepak meditates from 4-6 AM)
• Preferably sitting than lying down.
• 'So' in breath and 'hum' on the out breath (mental sounds).
• Sounds of nature or soft music.
• Observe the breath.
• The awareness of a thought is not a thought.
• Visualize your dream before meditation.