Guided meditation for beginners: Get a complete guide from the expert

Every time and every age are good to enter this field of spiritual knowledge. Meditation is such a trait that must be learned from the expert and cannot be acquired by itself.

Eating your food, moving on two legs, laughing, crying and many such traits can be acquired as human life progresses stage by stage. Beyond that, there are many traits that can only be learned during some point of time in life. Music, education, mannerisms, behavior, and many other such traits, a human being must learn from the other being. Every time and every age are good to enter this field of spiritual knowledge. Meditation is such a trait that must be learned from the expert and cannot be acquired by itself. Of course, the keen interest of the subject is the key here. Initially, a beginner needs guidance. With time and effort, it forms into a habit with regular practice. The expert guides the beginner the following ways: –

1. Importance of Meditation

Since the beginner is entering in a new realm of life which tends to take him to deeper heights, he must understand and be aware of the horizons of meditation. While the technical details of the process of meditation shall be imparted onto himself, yet he must realize the depth of the destination the meditation may guide him to. Only an expert who has conducted and experienced it on himself can be the best guide. The importance of any step when well understood, itself, becomes a motivation for taking up such an activity. The expert elaborates that not only meditation is for physical health but also for mental health. The expert initiates the beginner into meditation gradually. The importance of meditation, once understood by the subject, itself becomes a motivational force for a better and fruitful life.

2. Process of meditation

For the beginners, meditation is a step-by-step guided process. Any mis step tends to cause discomfort that acts a retardant. Though difficult initially yet very easy as you sail along. This is the easiest exercise involving no effort. Certain preconditions require you to be little tired and little hungry. Loose drapes on with minimum disturbance around. Just doing nothing. Many thoughts will cross your mind. Then:

• Let the thoughts come to your mind and let them go.
• Do not chase them. Let them go.
• Do not resist your thoughts. Let them come and go.
• Do not hold the thoughts. Let them go.
• Do not create any new thoughts.

Thought once comes and gone are gone forever. These are the suppressed emotions which surface here, and which are especially important to be relieved of. Initially more the thoughts come, the better it is as you are slowly being relieved of them with continuous practice. Emptying the storage will take time. As you are being relieved of thoughts, the mind will start relaxing. All the vital organs shall operate at the optimum levels. The clinical tests will show all average values over a period. This process needs be done for about 15-20 minutes and a minimum of twice a day.

3. Benefits of meditation

I have read a rhyme that with all the paper, all the ink and all the pens at your command, you can not praise the God enough. Similar is the case here. What happens to the physical and the subtle body is apparently not possible to enumerate. All the vital organs show tremendous improvements and clinical tests show their mean value in the range of their fluctuation. Secretions of juices is at the perfect level. Hormones get balanced. Oldest of diseases can be taken care of. Auto system of the body is activated fast. The meditator is one with the divine. He is nearer to the God, may be even an iota. And that makes all the difference. The muscles relax to the level of allowing sensory and motor impulses to travel faster. Blood circulation improves. The man is at ease with himself. He has the potential to attain the ‘samadhi’ where he meets the divine and attains the wholesome purpose of life.

4. Conclusion

A little bit of consistent effort is all that is required to enter the stage of meditation. It is a highly evolved technique that requires the guidance of an expert. A beginner needs to break that barrier of comfort and foray into the realm of meditation. The gains are always much greater than the purported losses. It is a profitable venture always. For a beginner, the beginning is finding an expert and engage himself with him and travel that extra distance to meet his Almighty, the soul is searching for Whom since ages. Fortunate are the few who attain the salvation through the process of meditation and ‘Samadhi’ for they travel in different trajectory on their way to Godliness.