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How to Do Concentration Meditation

This type of meditation can really help you focus, improving your concentration. It will take time to get into the correct mental state, but once you do, you'll be able to improve your life.

Steps

1. Sit down or stand very still.
2. If you sit set your palms in your lap so you will be comfortable.
If you choose to sit put your palms on your lap or knees. If you are standing, let your arms fall naturally at your side.
3. Relax.
4. Breathe naturally, but deeper than normal.
5. Start breathing deeply. First in, then out.
6. Think nothing. If thought enters your mind, acknowledge it, clear your mind, then go back to your breathing.
7. Stop your meditation when you want to.

Tips

* If you try to think of nothing you will be thinking. Instead, just let your mind relax.
* It may help you get into the right frame of mind by concentrating on a single very simple thing in your mind such as a plain white circle with a black outline. You could also concentrate on the sound of yourself breathing. Listening to the ringing in your ears can also be a very good way to start.
* It is recommended that you obtain direct instruction from a meditation teacher.
* It is also a good idea to have around where you meditate religious and/or spiritual symbols, such as a crucifix, a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, a sitting Buddha or anything else that is spiritually uplifting. If you have a spiritual quote, then say that quote with heart before you start meditating.


Warnings

* If you go too far into this you might lose track of time and be sitting there for what you think is just a minute but might really be an hour. Make sure you do this with a couple hours before you have to do anything important.