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u/readoutside · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

I found the most accessible book on this subject to be Deep Meditation. It is the first in a series and I liked them all, but this is a staging forward approach to get started.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/LSD

If you want to learn fairly thoroughly about it, but still in a relatively condensed manner, I'd recommend this book. It is super cheap as an ebook and I think it was worth the read.

Another one I like is this. The nice part about that one is its free and really short/simple.

You can probably find videos not only on how to meditate on youtube, but guided meditations as well. Guided meditation can be really helpful for beginners, of which I am one. Having someone to listen to helps keep the chatter in my own mind down. Alan Watts will guide you through in this one..

Sit comfortably, with back straight (but not tensed), eyes either closed or with eyelids relaxed and gaze unfocused. Another tip that he gives in another lecture is to relax the tongue; let it drop into the lower jaw, rather than touching the roof of your mouth like it might usually sit. This tends to help reduce chatter in the mind, because talk in the mind (thinking) usually comes along with some tension in the tongue. It's kind of like how you smile when you're happy but even if you smile when not happy your mood will lift. Now try that guided meditation if you're available to do so. ;)

Hopefully this isn't a jumble of words. I'm kinda hungry so I'm just throwing things out there that I hope would be helpful to you.

u/heart_of_hearts · 1 pointr/NoFap

Ok – some thoughts and ideas about meditation from me.

First and foremost when wanting to start meditation I think it is helpful to think of the essence of meditation as sitting down with your eyes closed for a period of time. There is a million ways to do meditation and a million (at least) different opinions about how NOT to do meditation, so it is very very easy to get lost in the discussion about how it should be done. So as a start just think at any activity that involves sitting with eyes closed for a period of time as meditation (actually some meditate with open eyes or partially open eyes – and some meditate while eating or walking – but as you see we are already getting swamped by different ways to do it :)).

Second – think of meditation as a form of exercise in the way that it can be really great to do some kind of exercise once but that the real benefits only starts showing when you do it regularly. So if you start trying a couple of meditation sessions and think that you might keep doing that, seriously consider trying to make it a daily habit. I meditate 30 minutes every morning just after getting up from bed (actually I have started doing some yoga when I get up, so right now it is after my yoga routine). It can very much feel like a waste of time (“I am just sitting here doing nothing!”) and so it can be hard to make it a daily thing – but my experience is that it is so much worth it, so I have chosen to make it a daily priority. And please be aware that 30 minutes is just the amount of time that works for me – if you can only do 5 minutes every day that is perfectly fine!

Thirdly – how to sit and what to do when you sit there.
As I said earlier there is a million opinions about how to do meditation. One of the often-said things is that you have to sit with an erect back/spine when you meditate. But I believe that the most important thing is to get a rutine going and if that is easier sitting more comfortable with a slouching back, then one should just do so! I am myself sitting in a very comfy chair without any kind of erect spine. Could my meditation be “better” if I sat up straight. Maybe so and maybe I will change it one day, but until now it has been fine for me.
So what about what to do when you sit there. Well… Again there is a lot of different ways to do it. Some count the number of breaths, some have a so called mantra they silently repeat. I actually started counting my breaths (1+ for every breathing out) and have changed it many times since. There is also the discussion about what to do when finding yourself lost in thought – because you very very very often will find yourself lost in thought. Some say “imagine that you are brushing your thoughts aside”. I have done different things – in the beginning when I found that I have drifted into thoughts, I silently “labelled” them (as in “oh… thoughts about working”) them and returned to counting.

Anyway… My post is getting out of hand :) I would like to recommend Deep Meditation by Yogani (http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Meditation-Pathway-Personal-Freedom/dp/097646554X) It is a very easy introduction to meditation and is very pragmatic. Hope you can use some of it :)