There's a Secret to Getting Yourself to Meditate

As a meditation teacher, I've heard countless students share their excuses for why they didn't meditate in the past week. They wanted to. They know it would be good for them. They just didn't do it. At least, not consistently.

Something always seems to get in the way: they need more sleep, the dog needs to be walked, the kids are up, they had to work late or had an early meeting, they felt too anxious, worried, or irritable... Meditation just didn't seem as important as other things they had to do. Yet, all those things they did didn't give them the peace of mind they desired.

Of course, meditation is about changing your relationship with all the events, worries, and anxieties in your life. It's a daily ritual-like eating, sleeping, and brushing your teeth-that creates a more relaxed, healthy, meaningful, and intentional way of living. It's a powerful practice to realize the deep peace of mind we all desire. So, what's the secret to moving from excuses to practice?

The answer is: you've got to have a strong "Why?"

Where do you find your Why?

The answer may surprise you.

How to Forget to Crave Junk Food

Here's a nice side effect for you. Imagine you're reorganising your thoughts from the ground up. You are releasing old emotions and scars from your childhood. You're calmer, more focused and less rattled by nonsense. Energy - real energy, not caffeine adrenaline shakes - fills your entire body.

Nothing feels the same. Even boring, familiar things like queuing seem so much more interesting.

After a few days of enjoying this, you notice something intriguing:

Your cravings are gone. Or at least so small you can easily ignore them.

Whatever you vice - whether it's food, booze, smokes or whatever - it's less appealing. You're so focused on your new mental reality you barely noticed.

People would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for that. You can stumble upon it as a free bonus.

This doesn't happen to everyone, it's true. But, if you meditate well enough... well, I like your odds.

Mindfulness is a key skill but you need to go beyond it. The best meditators incorporate mindfulness into every moment. But, unlike what others will tell you, there's more to meditation than observing your breath.

When you work with your mind - and I mean really work with it - useless thoughts fall away and you become more you.

Imagine everything you could be without everything holding you back.

Then imagine you became that while on the road to something greater.

It's not all unicorns and fairy floss, though. When it comes to your mind, nothing ever truly goes away. Some meditators replace one addiction with another. Many a brave soul has fallen off the path when they start craving sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

Tips to Meditate Effectively and Focus Better

There are times in life when you feel not very positive about life, doubt your decisions and seem confused about future. For people who do not catch themselves in earlier times end up in long-term effects like anxiety, depression, back-pain and other physical issues. Guidance then takes longer to reach them and better living seems rubbish or impossible from their perspective.

Any negative thought or negative emotion is an indicator that you have lost your connection. The earlier you realize and reconnect, better it is for you. We all are connected to each other through consciousness/energy/God or any other name you wish to call it. This connection is important for the survival. Sometimes when we observe something or experience some kind of loss, the connection is thinned out for sometime and generally gets reconnected when things/thoughts/emotions change.

Meditation is one of the ways of reconnecting and making the connection stronger. When you are connected, you feel energized, enthusiastic for life, feel love for others and overall you are a positive person. You can understand others situation and are willing to help. More connected you stay better your personality becomes. Meditating every day is one of the best practices of successful people. But is meditation possible in this age?

Meditation can be as short as 2 minutes and can be longer than 2 hours. Given below are few tips that can be helpful.