| Meditation in essence is about helping you to develop | | | | work. Remember one thing, every meditation guide will |
| inner peace, calmness and a sense of tranquillity but it | | | | be different and I recommend that before paying a |
| is also about helping you to grow as a person. Too | | | | meditation guide to help you, try to see if they will give |
| often people perceive meditation as a hippy thing, or | | | | you a free lesson. |
| something for those marijuana smoking duds to do but | | | | What I have found in the past is that every meditation |
| really what meditation is about is helping you with your | | | | practitioner is different and I have even found the |
| mind and the way your mind influences your life. | | | | meditation practitioners from the one meditation centre |
| Guided meditation really involves someone guiding you | | | | can vary dramatically in the guiding process, so you |
| through the process of meditation and helping you to | | | | need to find the guide who best works for you. Let |
| achieve an outcome of some description. Most people | | | | me give an example of what I mean. I am always on |
| associate meditation with simply sitting on the floor with | | | | the lookout for new ideas and thoughts when it comes |
| your eyes closed going Ummm. Ummm. Which I can | | | | to meditation and I recently purchased a Chakra |
| certainly say is not the outcome we are looking for | | | | meditation cd which included a guided meditation |
| and would in essence be totally useless. | | | | program. I put the cdrom into my computer and within |
| Meditation just like anything you do must have a | | | | the first five minutes of listening to it, I burst out laughing |
| purpose. For example, what is the purpose of getting a | | | | simply because the voice was digitally altered and was |
| job? Well essentially the purpose of getting a job is to | | | | totally unreal. For me this guided meditation tool was |
| help you gain money so that you can buy a house or | | | | never going to work as I could not take it seriously. |
| car, get food to eat or go on a holiday. If you did not | | | | Now for some people this particular meditation cd may |
| have a purpose for a job, why would you work? You | | | | have worked and they may think totally differently |
| would not! | | | | about the meditation cd. For me it did not work. |
| Meditation is exactly the same. You need to have a | | | | There are many different styles of guided meditation. If |
| purpose when you meditate. The purpose for | | | | you goto your local bookstore or check out the |
| meditation can be varied for example you could | | | | internet you will find an abundance of guided meditation |
| meditate to - | | | | cd's, dvd's and videos. Before you rush out and buy |
| #1. Find Inner Peace | | | | them, I strongly encourage you to see if there is |
| #2. To Bring About Focus | | | | sample of what they offer just to see if their guided |
| #3. To Relax | | | | meditation is what you are after. Any good quality |
| #4. To Help You Change Your State of Mind | | | | meditation programs, will offer you some sort of limited |
| #5. Improve Creativity and Learning | | | | look at their products so that you can see if they will |
| #6. Help Build Your Confidence and Self-Esteem | | | | work for you. If you are going to a health retreat or |
| #7. To Focus on Self-Healing | | | | meditation centre for a guided meditation experience, |
| #8. To Help Control Internal and External Pain | | | | find out if they offer a Free Introductory CDROM of |
| #9. Meditate to Overcome Your Fears | | | | their program. Always try these out first because |
| There really are unlimited reasons for why you would | | | | there is nothing worse to go to a meditation retreat |
| want to meditate. The objective of guided meditation is | | | | only to find out it does not suit you. |
| to help you take the right meditation path to achieve | | | | One thing I recommend to everyone is to try out |
| those objectives. | | | | meditation before you go to any of these retreats |
| Choosing a Meditation Guide is really an important step | | | | even if you just try out the Deep Breathing Meditation |
| you need to make. For example different meditation | | | | exercises. Meditation does take practice and the more |
| experts and practitioners will have different techniques | | | | practice you do the better you will get at it. Some |
| and will guide you through different paths depending on | | | | people when they first go to guided meditation |
| what you are trying to achieve. | | | | programs do not get the outcomes they expect, not |
| The majority of meditation practitioners will teach you | | | | because the programs do not work, but simply |
| deep breathing meditations when you first start | | | | because they do not realise it does take practice to |
| because if you do not know how to relax and maintain | | | | master meditation. |
| focus, then the other meditation paths will certainly not | | | | |