Some people tend to stay aside and not commit to regular meditation practice, not knowing answers to some questions about mindfulness meditation practice. Here are five common questions about mindfulness meditation.
Does my mind need to be completely quiet so that mindfulness meditation can be successful?
Believing that will only encourage you to give up, completely frustrated. This belief will create stress and even more internal noise. You cannot stop or control your thoughts. However, you can decide how much attention you will dedicate to them, and how seriously you will take them. You need to seek the silence that exists between your thoughts.
This space, this emptiness between your thoughts is true consciousness, true silence, and true peace. Regular mindfulness meditation will enable you to stay longer and more often in a state of extended consciousness and silence.
Even if you spent your entire meditation thinking, you will still benefit from your practice.
Your benefit is in recognizing that thought arises. Your standpoint changes from the mind overwhelmed with your ego to the consciousness that your mind is a mere witness. When you become less identified with your thoughts, you will experience ever greater peace and openness to new opportunities.
How to find time for regular practice of mindfulness meditation?
Well, it is as always, a matter of priority. If you think your daily schedule is full, remember that even a few minutes of mindfulness meditation is better than none. It is essential to meditate regularly, even for a minute, or ten minutes. It is hardly possible that you can not set aside ten minutes in one day.
When you begin to meditate regularly, you will have more and more time.
When meditating, the breath and heartbeats slow down, the blood pressure drops. Your body stops producing a hormone of stress and other substances. They accelerate the aging process and create a subjective feeling in us that “time expires.”
During meditation, you are in a state of resting vigilance, which refreshes the body and mind remarkably. As you keep meditating, your preferences change. Things that by yesterday were unavoidable and high on your list of priorities may now be less important. It will open up space for other thoughts, more useful to your health and inner peace. Your priorities have changed. Mindfulness meditation becomes your daily routine.
Does mindfulness meditation require belief in a spiritual or religious tradition?
To practice mindfulness meditation, you do not have to believe in anything. Likewise, many people who belong to different religions or spiritual paths practice mindfulness meditation without any conflict with what they believe. Some meditators are not at all religious, but atheists or agnostics. They meditate to experience inner peace, as well as the numerous physical and mental benefits of practice in a medical way. Mindfulness meditation allows you to enjoy what you do fully, whatever it is.
How long it takes to benefit from mindfulness meditation?
The benefits of meditation are immediate and long-term. Many scientific studies have shown that meditation has profound effects on physiology and mind and body as early as a few weeks of exercise. For example, a Harvard study revealed that only eight weeks of meditation are significant. Meditation helped people feel tiredness and much more peace in themselves. It also developed areas in the brain associated with memory, empathy, self-confidence, and stress management.
Is mindfulness meditation difficult?
Mindfulness meditation practice is not reserved only for saints, monks, and yogis. Mindfulness meditation is suitable for everyone who wants to dig deeper into his mind. If you want to get to know your thoughts truly, all it takes is determination and perseverance. Of course, it takes time. Maybe even years, but the reward is worth the effort. Mindfulness meditation may look difficult. It is especially so when you try to concentrate. Also, if you are constantly troubled by the dilemma if you are doing it right. But once you learn how to let go, mindfulness meditation becomes your second nature. It becomes effortless. Just do not quit.
Bonus question: Should I have some transcendental experiences during mindfulness meditation?
If you are happy with answers to five common questions about mindfulness meditation, here is the answer to one bonus question. Some people are disappointed when they do not see vision during meditation., They do not see colors, they do not levitate, and do not hear the angel chorus, or they cannot see the flames of revival. Although you can have various wonderful experiences in meditation, including feelings of bliss and unity with everything that exists, this is not the goal of practice.
Everyday life benefits of mindfulness meditation
The real benefit of meditation lies in what is happening in your everyday life. After mindfulness meditation practice, you bring some of the peace and quiet. This peace of mind enables you to be more creative, have more compassion and love for yourself as well as for all other beings in your life.
I hope you find answers to five common questions about mindfulness meditation helpful.
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