Meditation for health, happiness and self control.
Meditation is a great way to learn self control and expand your mind.
If you can not sit still for 10 minutes without issues you are not in control of your life, not in control of your body!
Don't you want to be the best version of yourself you can be?
Meditation is not easy but it will learn you a lot.
Here is one of my favorite meditations:
Quiet mind meditation - Thought control, concentration
Allow your mind to go silent, try to remove any chatter from your mind. Hold your mind in silence for a minimum of 5 minutes. You can go longer but for daily practice 5 or 10 minutes will do. If you can make the silent mind your default mental condition throughout the whole day that is even better and you will have more energy to do things.
The most basic and known meditation which usually precedes many more advanced meditations. When people think about meditation, this is usually what they know. Even though meditation is so much more than this. I find doing a meditation beforehand easier to clear the mind of invasive thought forms. It doesn't always do the job though. Radios and televisions are prime sources for nuisance thought forms that can disturb the silence and peace in your mind by repeating themselves in your mind against your own will. It can be easy or incredibly hard to do, depending on what entity attachments you have picked up. It allows you to detect the presence of these attachments because in trying to resist them and keep your mind silent, you can see these thoughts are not actually coming from you, but originate as an outside force intruding upon your consciousness against your will. So it serves as a entity detection meditation too, although more advanced meditations exist for that purpose and to root out more deeply embedded and less obvious thought forms either attached to you or just hanging around in your immediate environment.
Meditation has helped me a lot, it's definitely a great habit to have.
Instead of "removing any chatter" I think it's better to think of it as "ignoring" your thoughts. Imagine yourself as a mountain. The clouds are your thoughts. They just pass you. Greet them and let them go their own way.
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Well yeah there are many ways to do meditation but with Quiet mind you want to make sure you keep a quiet mind as long as possible. Getting silence for a minute is a real effort. Usually some thought will pop up.
Quick tip to make meditation easier : I found out that I am more able to successfully do a quiet mind meditation shortly after having a physical activity ( workout ). :)