How to Meditate

Today I want to talk about something that has blessed my mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical life. Meditation! Meditation is a lot more than just going UMMMM sitting in a pretzel chanting all day. The goal of meditation is to stop the constant activity going on in our minds and bring ourselves to a state of thoughtless awareness. This is how I personally teach and do meditation. the basic steps are:

1. Get yourself full of water, food, and physically relaxed as you can. soaking your feet in hot water is one good way to physically relax and reduce head tension because the blood flows more to feet and away from head. 

2. Either sit crossed legged or lay down on your back. Your spine must be straight whole time! One thing I do that helps is tuck in my tail bone inwards towards my core. If you want to be more comfortable I suggest sitting/laying on blanket or sitting against wall or chair, to help keep spine straight

4. Breath deeply and count your breaths. I personally count very slowly to 4 or 7 in and out. When you breath, let it be from your diagram and fill up your lungs. let your shoulders drop and focus your relaxation around the area of front of head as you close your eyes. 

5. It's ok to let your mind wander just focus it back to your breathing and counting until it's effortless. 

6. Personally I like to listen to guided meditations or relaxing massage/yoga music while I meditate such as these. 

Guided meditations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vO1wPAmiMQ&list=PL9ZcmGPa4YQ9qzkM4BdrYgSj_CL4CXsi8&index=2

relaxing music:http://youtu.be/QZbuj3RJcjI?list=PL9ZcmGPa4YQ_JDYWVfygVhESt921cV4BH

I started to meditate for 5-30 min a day and I felt so much benefit in my life in the way I think, my attitude, and etc. I hope it can bless your lives to, namaste! p.s. I am currently doing more research on 7 chakras and hopefully can provide what I found out soon! :)