Our Mindfulness Meditation Ultimate Beginners Guide includes everything about Mindfulness Meditation! Great for Beginners or Seasoned Pros!
Mindfulness Meditation is the most important tool for clearing and strengthening yourself mentally. Mindfulness Meditation is useful for stress reduction, weight management, emotional/mental well-being, and connecting to your own personal temple within.
There is a beautiful stillness inside of you that connects you to the Universe and your Divinity. Heaven is within. Meditating allows you to tap into this stillness where just you and God exist.
Nobody else is offering to speak to God for you and relay what he says. You can connect to spiritual messages any time you feel the need by tapping in to your own source of great internal power.
Nothing will help you grow more spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally than learning to tune in to your own Divine nature.
When you practice meditation, everyday stress melts away while you live in the present moment. 30 minutes of deep mindfulness meditation is the equivalent of two hours of sleep.
What Is Mindfulness Meditation?
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Unlike Guided Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation practitioners listen to and follow the sound of their breath. Mindfulness meditation involves taking slow, deep circular breaths while attempting to shut off all thought, therefore practicing mindfulness.
One who mindfully meditates focuses on simply “being” with oneself, while turning off all outside worry and noise. You can practice mindfulness meditation with relaxing music or nature sounds.
The typical posture for practicing mindfulness is sitting with legs crossed, spine straight. For more information on proper meditation posture, visit my post: The Ancient Meditation for Reaching Higher States of Consciousness
Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation
Deep breath work exercises circulates oxygen through the blood stream and cells, supporting detoxification and increasing energy levels. This improves memory and concentration.
Mindfulness meditation also helps with depression, addiction, anxiety, and stress. It decreases cortisol levels and increase grey concentration in the brain.
A regular mindfulness meditation practice can also decrease pain and help manage ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
Mindfulness Meditation also increases your awareness of your subconscious mind.
Researchers from the University of Sussex, UK found that people who practice mindfulness meditation have a greater pause between unconscious impulses and action. They also observed mindfulness meditators to be less susceptible to hypnosis! (2016, New Scientist).
Mindfulness has also been shown to decrease feelings of loneliness and foster creativity! (Live and Dare).
For more Benefits of Mindfulness, visit: 5 Mind-Blowing Mindfulness Benefits (Hint: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money!)
Mindfulness Meditation for Insomnia:
According to the CDC, more than one-third of American adults don’t get adequate sleep. This is a great time to learn to meditate. Meditation puts your body and mind into a deep restorative state, but you remain fully conscious.
This is a like opening a gateway between Heaven and Earth. A gateway where you can receive guidance from Spirit as well as your own inner genius, all while remembering the messages clearly. Unlike dream messages, that are quickly forgotten upon waking.
Answers to your problems arise from within to help you on your current path. I’ve received many answers to questions I’ve knowingly, as well as unknowingly asked, through meditation.
Mindfulness Meditation has helped me clear out noise, drama, competition, worries, and then replaced them with peace, joy, and love. I highly doubt I would’ve been able to fully let go of my addictions if it hadn’t been for meditation.
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Mindfulness Meditation for Health Concerns
For example, have you ever had a physical ailment that you just couldn’t seem to get rid of? It’s bothering you bad enough to do something about it, so you either go to the doctor or my personal favorite, visit Dr. Google.
I would drive myself crazy looking ailments up on the Internet. Google says I am dying or that I should try a combination of every herb known to man! I was spending a lot of time and money trying to figure out how to bring myself back into balance with very weak results.
All of this went away when I started paying attention to my dreams and meditating. I would literally see foods or herbs my body needed to bring myself into alignment again. Or hear a voice tell me the name of something specific that would help me with what I was struggling with.
After the birth of my son, I was plagued with a nasty yeast infection that I erroneously thought was a bladder infection. I ran to the doctor and got antibiotics (which I would never do now).
Antibiotics just make yeast infections much, much worse. Finally, I’d had it with the discomfort and decided to meditate about the situation. Upon meditating, I clearly heard, “yogurt”.
I do still use Google for confirmation that I’m on the right track. I looked up ‘yogurt natural cures’ and yeast infections topped the list. I also found that yeast infections were often mistaken for bladder infections.
It would have taken me a lot of time and money with doctor’s visits, tests, and drugs to eventually figure out what was wrong with my physical body. With meditation, I found out in fifteen minutes what I had and exactly what to do about it.
Everybody’s body is different and therefore what works great for most of the population might not work for you. Or, what worked well for you last time, might not work for you again.
Your inner genius knows you best. Tuning in to your innate brilliance is amazing! This power lies dormant in everyone who hasn’t learned to harness it yet. Imagine how much time and money you could save yourself by just this one benefit of mindfulness meditation.
Other Great Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation Include:
Help with problems you’re working on like – “Seeing” creative solutions for solving puzzles. Inventors would greatly benefit from mindfulness meditation.
Many song and creative writers have had clever ideas come to them through meditation. One great golfer even saw how to change his golf swing when he was having problems with his game!
Guidance to help you deal with difficult people or situations that you’ve run into. Meditation can help us solve problems in the quickest, simplest ways – Ways we’d never come up with on our own in a million years. It is just that amazing!
Those who mindfully meditate frequently are calmer, happier and become magnets for good luck, success and prosperity.
Mental health is a huge issue in our country right now. The overuse of chemical substances and technology, lack of nature and exercise, and poor nutrition has left our population scared, angry and confused.
We can easily mend broken bones or manage diabetes but trying to get through a day with a brain gone haywire is nearly impossible.
Out of everything I do, meditation has been the most helpful at turning my once manic bipolar issues into peace and calm.
I can think clearly again without all the noise, pain, depression, and fear. And most importantly, I can think clearly without being medicated.
Meditation has freed me from the medication hell that I was once stuck in. Read My Story Here.
Mindfulness Meditation vs Guided Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is the type of meditation that I use the most now. It seems so simple, but it can be very challenging to quiet your yammering mind!
We are constantly bombarded with noise from technology and being in constant movement. Learning to quiet and still the mind is imperative if you wish to learn how to live in a state of calm.
Mindfulness meditation will also greatly assist you in learning how to stay present throughout your day. This is one of the main secrets to manifesting your dreams and wishes.
Mindfulness meditation can be practiced with or without soft background music. Whereas, guided meditation gives you a person’s voice to guide you through; Mindfulness meditation is the slowing of the mind without a guided voice.
You literally practice being mindful and present with yourself. You pause your day and take the time to simply listen to your breath.
Mindfulness Meditation Techniques – How to Practice Mindfulness for Beginners:
Find a comfortable position to sit or lay in: Light a candle, incense, or spray some essential oils (I love lavender for its calming properties. It’s easier to pay attention to the breath when you’re smelling something nice).
For ideas on tools to use during meditation, check out this related meditation post: 17 Meditation Room Must-Haves: Create your Perfect Meditation Space Today!
