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Simply Breathe!

Something we all do as humans is breathe. As focussing on the breath is a main constituent of meditation, it means we can ALL meditate! The simplest, however hardest method of meditation is to focus on the breath and be in a state of ‘no thought’. Because most of us have thoughts running constantly through our minds, it can take perserverance, practice and focus to come to a place of ‘no thought’. However, the more you do it, the easier it gets!

What are the conditions most conducive to meditation?

Everyone is different, but it is important to be somewhere that you won’t be distracted.

Some people like to listen to relaxing music, others prefer not. Apart from music, it’s best to have minimal exterior noises going on.

It is best to be sitting comfortably upright, or lying down. Ensure the upper body is straight so breathing is easy.

Some people like to sit in a particular posture, like the lotus position or half lotus. It is up to you. Comfort is important.

Meditation can take anything from a few minutes to an hour, however most find 10-30 minutes is the amount they can fit into their day and the most beneficial.

When you are comfortable and the conditions are just right, take some initial relaxing breaths.

Close your eyes and relax into the position you are in.

Be aware of the breath entering your nostrils, to the back of your throat and moving down into your lungs. Then follow it’s passage back out again.

With every breath, feel your body and mind relax, letting go.

Keep your awareness with your breathing, following it in and out, noticing how your ribcage expands and falls.

Any time a thought comes into your head, acknowledge it, don’t judge it, let it go and bring your awareness back to your breath.

Have an awareness of your body and mind relaxing even more on every breath.

If you like, you can have a sense of your breath moving up and down your body, following it up as you breathe in and down as you breathe out.

If thoughts come in, let them go again and follow your breath up and down your body.

Continue for as long as you want. When you want to return to consciousness, hold over your naval, take a nice deep breath into that area and open your eyes when you are ready.

Enjoy and until next time!
lots of love
Nicky xxx

Accessing the Power Within YOU

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Many of us go through life feeling frustrated and unhappy due to feeling a ‘lack’ of something. We often see the problem being down to needing more of something from someone, or a solution from outside of ourselves, whether it is more love, more appreciation, more success, more fulfilment, more motivation, more confidence, more trust.

What are you NOT experiencing in your world that you want to experience?
What are you NOT getting from the people around, your job, your life, that you feel you deserve?
What would make you feel happier and more content and at peace?

The wonderful thing is that we can CREATE these feelings for ourselves, we are incredible creative beings and are capable of giving ourselves everything that we need to be happy and content.

Find a quiet place to sit or lie down listening to relaxing music.

Take some nice deep breaths and feel your body relax and let go of any tension.

Spend a few moments thinking about what you feel you are missing from your life right now.

Once you have decided what it is (best to stick with one at a time), just be aware of it and acknowledge it.

Take your awareness to your breath and follow the rise and fall of your abdomen as you breathe in and out.

For the next 4 breaths, when you breath out, squeeze as much air out of your lungs, using your rib muscles to assist with this. Notice the breath in becomes much longer as you draw more air into your lungs.

Return to normal breathing and get a sense of a tingling vibration throughout all your cells.

Your cells are now creating, bring the awareness of the positive feeling you want to experience into all your cells, saying the word over to yourself.

As you repeat it, see this feeling growing and multiplying, growing and multiplying within all your cells, filling your body entirely.

You are now brimming with this feeling, it is overflowing out of your body and completely surrounding you like a bubble.

Have the intention to stay tuned to these feelings from now on and say it as an affirmation to yourself: ‘I am filled with …….

When you are ready, come back to the room, open your eyes and notice how much better you feel.

It is beneficial and reinforcing to repeat this for 21 days. You can add other positive feelings you wish to bring into your experience using the same exercise.

Good luck and enjoy!
Until next time
lots of love
Nicky xxxxx

Coming soon as MP3 recording.
© Meditation Moments. Nicky Minter 2013.

All you need is ‘YOU’

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Much of the time we look for comfort, love, fulfilment and happiness from experiences outside of ourselves. Unaware that actually we can create ALL of the feelings and experiences that we wish for within ourselves, we are a whole universe of every feeling that ever was and ever will be – waiting to be tapped into.

Fair enough… to experience LIFE … to be part of LIFE, rather than a hermit living in a cave, we interact with people, with nature, with everything going on in this planet, and can gain much happiness from the experiences we have. However, if our LIFE situation is such that we aren’t feeling loved, we aren’t experiencing positive things, we aren’t feeling appreciated or valued, it IS POSSIBLE to go inside ourselves and tap into the energy of positive feelings and create them for ourselves.

Check out this relevant parable from the start of Eckhart Tolle’s book ‘The Power of Now’:

“A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. ‘Spare some change?’ mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. ‘I have nothing to give you,’ said the stranger. Then he asked: ‘What’s that you are sitting on?’ ‘Nothing,’ replied the beggar. ‘Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.’ ‘Ever looked inside?’ asked the stranger. ‘No,’ said the beggar. ‘What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.’ ‘Have a look inside,’ insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere evern closer: inside yourself. ‘But I am not a beggar,’ I can hear you say: Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfilment, for validation, security or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

Follow my next blog for a meditation to help you tap into The Power of ‘You’.

Until next time!
lots of love
Nicky xxx

Spread a Little Sunshine!

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‘The greatest satisfaction in Life is from Giving’ Richard Branson – Choicepoint Movie

The biggest gift you can give yourself, is to give to others without wanting anything in return. To give them your time, your compassion, love and laughter.

If you are feeling depressed, if your own emotions are overwhelming, if you aren’t feeling fulfilled or satisfied with your life, think about getting involved in work helping others whether paid or unpaid, or helping out a neighbour, joining a community group or facing a challenge for a charity – we all have it within us to spread sunshine to other people and you’ll be amazed at how it enables you to experience your own personanl growth and healing.

You can try this visualisation:

Find a calm, quiet place to sit, listening to some relaxing music.

Take some calming breaths, following your breath in and out of your body, bringing your attention back to your breath whenever your mind wanders.

Allow the music and your breath to relax your body, letting go of any stress or tension.

Take your attention to your heart and now imagine waking up to a bright sunny day, seeing a field of spring grass filled with yellow buttercups and the blue blue sky. Feel that uplift and sunshine in your heart.

The energy of the sun is pure gold and is filling your heart with compassion and wellbeing. Imagine your heart smiling

With every breath, the feeling spreads from your heart into the whole of your chest, up and down your body reaching your fingers and toes, up into your head, so your body is alive with this energy.

Now that energy grows and the golden sunshine smile spreads out of every part of you into the surrounding area, spreading further to encompass all you come in contact with.

Feel a big smile light up your face right now and take a nice deep breath.

From now on you can give and recieve love and compassion more easily.

Stay with that feeling as long as is appropriate, coming back to the room and opening your eyes when you are ready.

And remember, just smiling spreads some sunshine!

Enjoy. Until next time!
Lots of Love
Nicky xx