Meditation for Beginners
Need to reduce stress and anxiety in your life? Looking for an effective yet simple way to revive your energy levels, improve your mood, and increase your overall happiness? The good news is what you’re seeking is only a meditation away. The term "meditation" refers to any process that leads you to an inner state of relaxed awareness—and there's really no right or wrong way of doing it. There are simply different techniques that can be used as tools to help you focus and quiet your mind. Designed for beginners, this popular course from DailyOM's Editor-in-Chief, Madisyn Taylor, will teach you the basics of meditation, and how to develop the meditation practice that's right for you. You’ll also discover how to incorporate specific elements to make your practice uniquely enjoyable and personally fulfilling. Many of the benefits of meditation can be felt after your very first session, and will continue to evolve with regular practice.
As you develop your own meditation program, you'll be able to track the benefits for yourself, and you’ll notice you’ll find yourself reacting to stressful challenges from a place of centered calm, rather than from your head. And, throughout, you’ll continue to cultivate a sense of self-acceptance and self-love.
This eight-week course contains transformational weekly lessons that will provide you with an insightful glimpse into meditation practices from around the world. You’ll learn how your body can help you reach higher states of awareness, and you’ll find out how to unleash the power of your own mind to create the life you truly want.
This easy to follow course will guide you through:
- Meditation Basics
- Easy to learn postures you can use while meditating
- How to prepare your space for meditating
- Setting your intention
- Mindfulness
- How to tame your Monkey Mind
- Helpful Breathing Techniques
- Visualizations
- Open-Eyed Meditations
- Meditating with Incense
- Mantras & Chanting
When you develop a meditation routine, you’ll come to depend on the way the practice enhances your life. You’ll soon discover an ever-present source of inner peace and wisdom from which you can draw strength, courage, clarity and compassion. You’ll notice it becomes easier to respond to situations from a calm and grounded place, and you’ll be better able to navigate your daily life in alignment with your own needs and goals. By giving yourself the space to simply be yourself, many of the distractions from other people's agendas will melt away.
Meditation also becomes a critical way to take really good care of yourself. Research has linked a regular practice of meditation to reduced levels of anxiety and stress, in addition to improved immune function, and a host of other important health benefits. Interestingly, studies have shown that the nervous system actually begins responding differently to stressful situations--creativity flows more freely, and fresh new solutions begin to emerge.
The practice of meditating also enables you to become aware of how active your mind can be, and also what kinds of thoughts you’re engaging in on a regular basis. The more you meditate, the easier it will become to direct your thinking, and start choosing positive, helpful thoughts from a place of increased awareness.
