what is meditation and how does someone do it?

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what is meditation and how does someone do it?

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Meditation, when you’re starting, is not about “clearing your mind” or “thinking about nothing” and it’s frustrating that people who don’t know how to teach make it more difficult than it has to be.

Focus on one thing (a word, your breath), and let your thoughts go by. When you catch yourself thinking about something else, let it go and go back to your one focus. That’s it, you didn’t do it wrong because you had a thought, letting go of the thoughts you have literally IS the meditation.

In fact, the more thoughts you have and let go of, the more you’re practicing meditation.

“I legitimately don’t know what “let it go” means?”

It just means recognizing that if it’s important you will remember it later (unless you left your stove on or something, in which case you can get up) and that you can abandon that train of thought and refocus on your intended focus.
You don’t need to grasp every train of thought until it’s done and get dragged down the river, you can just throw that log back in the river and watch the current of thoughts drift by.

I actually love using the visual of a single ripple in water to refocus along with a one word mantra. Every word is a visual drop and ripple in an infinite black pond and an out breath. It’s enough to drag my attention back, where maybe breath or word alone are not enough.
And by the time you need a new breath, the water is calm.

Or visualise a clear blue sky and every time a thought comes up you let it drift away as a cloud.

But also, for anyone new to meditation, try guided visualization meditation where it takes you through a walk or a setting! It’s much easier to understand the basics after enjoying a guided experience.

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