How to Meditate

Meditating is easy. Raja Yoga even has the name ‘Easy Raja Yoga'. But sometimes getting started needs a little explanation. Here is a simple five-step process to follow. Soon you'll arrive at the quiet still place with just a single stride - a single thought - and you won't even need to take five steps.

Steps

Experience

Step 1

Relaxation

Relaxation is about letting go of tension and stress and bringing the mind and body into a state of calm and peace ...

Relaxation in the forest
Relaxation of the muscles
Relaxation with the breath
Relaxation connection

Step 2

Concentration

Concentration allows me to use my time productively, once I have relaxed: I focus on the thoughts I choose to have ...

Concentration flow of breath
Concentration on a point
Concentration on the word shanti
Concentration counting backwards

Step 3

Contemplation

Contemplation is reflecting deeply on myself, my inner world and my values…

Contemplation eternity
Contemplation on the true self
Contemplation being of light
Contemplation your core quality

Step 4

Realisation

Realisation is when my understanding and feelings combine and I experience a more profound, more meaningful reality within…

Realisation love
Realisation pure light
Realisation eternity
Realisation soul shift

Step 5

Meditation

Meditation is focusing on a thought and remembering my eternal identity, and re-awakening a wonderful state of well-being …

Meditation Beyond
Meditation to the Source
Meditation the simple shift
Meditation beyond the story.

Learn more about Raja Yoga meditation - what it is, why, how, where and when to do it, and the kind of people who are using it in their lives here

For more meditation experiences here on this site, step across into Experience

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Thought of the Day

Lasting Happiness

The real reason why we sometimes experience a lack of real, deep lasting happiness in our lives is dependency. We are taught to make our happiness dependent on some event, condition, person, object etc. This is why we keep delaying our happiness until things are just right in our life. We think we will be happy in the future and then wonder why we are not happy now. But life is never just right, and the future never comes – there is only now! And that’s why, in order to be happy we must make our happiness a decision and not a dependency. This may seem slightly difficult in the beginning, because we have just spent our life being dependent on acquiring something or someone, or seeing the result we desired, or wanting some pain to go away, before we allow ourselves to be happy.