Meditation

@mehdi756, Meditation is natures medication. :D

@mehdi756, I practice meditation. The type of meditation I do is called insight meditation, and here is how it goes. First, you set the intention in your mind. The intention is to focus on the breath. Second, you settle into your “heart space”, to do that, you think of something nice you did for someone else recently, something generous, and really FEEL how good it made you feel. Something generous could be all types of things too, giving money, giving time/being patient, smiling at someone, complimenting someone, being generous to yourself, meditating is being generous to your mind, so be creative with what GENEROSITY means. After you do that, you want to focus on a single point in your breath, where you really feel it, and where it feels comfortable, or even pleasant. Don’t think, just focus on the breath, here and now. In the beginning this will be hard, you can use a mantra, like saying “Breath, breath, breath” or “Breathe, breathe, breathe”. And with meditation, there a five hindrances, those are restlessness, aversion, sleepiness, desire, and doubt. Restlessness is when your mind wanders, when it functions how it usually does, when it brings your attention away from the breath. Aversion is avoiding meditation, or coming up with reasons why you can just do it later, or having negative feelings towards the practice. Sleepiness is well, being sleepy. Desire is thinking about something you want, whether it be a person(sexually or not), food, an experience, clothes, and more. Doubt is similar to aversion. When you experience any of these hindrances you want to skillfully and gently acknowledge it, and move your attention back to the breath, don’t EVER be hard on yourself thinking that you can’t meditate right. Always be skillful and gentle with it. Again, its called insight meditation.