If you find it tough to concentrate while meditating and your thoughts wander aimlessly squandering your mental energies then here are the six techniques to get your mind under control.
First, If some thought is intruding your mind repeatedly and piercingly then start observing the thought. Observe your body as an outsider. Don't feel good or bad, excited or depressed from the thought. Just observe it. Slowly the thought will die down.
Second, put your attention on your nose. Notice your breathing pattern. Sooner or later, your breath will become longer and slower. This indicates your mind is inching towards peace. Such phenomenon is associated with low frequency brain waves.
Third, Try to focus on the voice coming from inside of your mind. This is also called "Sannate ki Awaaz". Once you attend to this faint sound coming from unknown sources on a regular basis, you will realize it is nothing but sound of OM. Every religion says that at the beginning of time, we had only the sound of OM. Everything came afterwards.
Fourthly, If you are trying to focus on some particular God or Goddess, then think about the various positive traits of the god which you want to imbibe in your behaviour.
Fifth way is extension of fourth technique. You could focus on her or his beauty/ power/ magical or mythical figure or various postures. For example, one can imagine the Vajrasan posture of lord Hanuman or imagine lord Mahavira in meditation with all the natural forces like Sun, moon and all planets rotating around him and illuminating his soul which in turn is illuminating the entire universe. It is up to your power of imagination.
Alternatively, you could focus on the small source of light which appears when you close your eyes.
Meditation reduces the intensity of your brain waves and one feel at calm and peace as a result of regular practice.
There are some other techniques as well. Like Vipasanna asks us to focus on bodily sensations or Preksha emphasizes on recital of certain sound along with yoga.However, one will find these methods as common denominator in the process.
First, If some thought is intruding your mind repeatedly and piercingly then start observing the thought. Observe your body as an outsider. Don't feel good or bad, excited or depressed from the thought. Just observe it. Slowly the thought will die down.
Second, put your attention on your nose. Notice your breathing pattern. Sooner or later, your breath will become longer and slower. This indicates your mind is inching towards peace. Such phenomenon is associated with low frequency brain waves.
Third, Try to focus on the voice coming from inside of your mind. This is also called "Sannate ki Awaaz". Once you attend to this faint sound coming from unknown sources on a regular basis, you will realize it is nothing but sound of OM. Every religion says that at the beginning of time, we had only the sound of OM. Everything came afterwards.
Fourthly, If you are trying to focus on some particular God or Goddess, then think about the various positive traits of the god which you want to imbibe in your behaviour.
Fifth way is extension of fourth technique. You could focus on her or his beauty/ power/ magical or mythical figure or various postures. For example, one can imagine the Vajrasan posture of lord Hanuman or imagine lord Mahavira in meditation with all the natural forces like Sun, moon and all planets rotating around him and illuminating his soul which in turn is illuminating the entire universe. It is up to your power of imagination.
Alternatively, you could focus on the small source of light which appears when you close your eyes.
Meditation reduces the intensity of your brain waves and one feel at calm and peace as a result of regular practice.
There are some other techniques as well. Like Vipasanna asks us to focus on bodily sensations or Preksha emphasizes on recital of certain sound along with yoga.However, one will find these methods as common denominator in the process.
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