Ways to meditate

I collected together some ideas on ways to meditate – I probably used all of them at one time or another. They might be useful to me now as I take back my meditation room in the Furlong house. Its nearly ready!

Sit comfortably

(don’t lie down) and then you could try any of these ideas…

 

make your ears vast and listen

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sing one note in any of the vowel sounds and listen to the sound and silence

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study a beautiful thing held in your hand or on a table in front of you

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observe your thoughts floating past as though they were fishes in the sea

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remember something wonderful that happened in your life

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hold something and intuit it – ask it to communicate ideas

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repeat any pleasing sound listening carefully to the sound and silence

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repeat the name of your mediator or say a mantra

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sing a song as quietly and as beautifully as possible whilst listening

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re-live a whole pleasing episode through visualisation and imagination

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read a sentence – uplifting – and think through every word

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count to one, then one, two, then one two three, then one, two, three, four till 20

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select a bright coloured thing and breathe in the colour  – colour breathing

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study the flickering of a candle

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cloud watch

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smell something with great discrimination then recall it

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remember smells from your past – re-live them

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remember faces or people from long ago – re-imagine them

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listen to a meditational tape

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look at the back of your eyelids, suggest to yourself what you will see

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anticipate something touching you on your forehead

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have a conversation with your internal organs  – suggest they be happy

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study a picture finely for a few moments, then close your eyes and and recall it

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count your breathing

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draw your breath in through the back of the nose as if snoring quietly

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regulate your breathing by focusing on it

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listen to the ringing of your ears

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chant “om” 3 times (or heu) and then listen to the echo in your ears

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listen to a metronome or clock ticking

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relax each muscle from head to toe or toe to head

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allow your angel to take you on a trip

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imagine building a glass house of all the colours of the rainbow

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go under the sea and swim with a dolphin in your imagination

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above all relax and enjoy being alone on an inner landscape