MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TECHNIQUES FOR BEGINNERS // How do you overcome 3 of the most common challenges in mindfulness meditation?
This video is about meditation techniques for beginners. My 3 meditation tips and techniques will show you how to meditate properly. You will learn how to meditate and use this video as a short meditation guide in which you will learn:
– how to quiet your mind while meditating and how to meditate to increase concentration using mindful breathing.
– what to do when falling asleep in meditation
– how to stop being bored and how to enjoy meditation by learning to relax.
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Thanks for watching! Have you experienced these challenges in your meditation practice before? Do you have any other questions or difficulties in your practice? Let me know!
Please help me.
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So key that you share meditation is about the observation of your thoughts – not clearing them away completely!
Yes and many people who try to meditate with this misunderstanding will be frustrated …
Well you cant clear them anyway , its like my mind does have another mind that think for itself
Do watch observing thoughts by sunny sharma….u will get total clearity
Meditation is key for a better life. …. and the 3 p’s are so important! Namaste ~Elizabeth
Absolutely!
Bonjour Oliver
Vous serait-il possible de faire une traduction française ? Cela nous serait plus facile de vous suivre. Par avance, merci. 🙏
Merci Olivier pour avoir pris le temps d’ajouter les sous-titres en français. Super intéressant vos questions/réponses. Des appréhensions, des questions que nous nous posons tous, et vous nous y apportez les explications, les réponses afin de bien méditer et de profiter les bienfaits de la méditation. 🙏
Thank you Olivier for taking the time to add subtitles in French. Super interesting your questions / answers. Apprehensions, questions we all ask, and you bring us the explanations, the answers to meditate well and enjoy the benefits of meditation.
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I find the best way to keep my thoughts quiet during meditation is using a mantra and visualization at the same time, but it really depends on the reason you meditate. Some people want to be able to silence their mind, and a mantra doesn’t really fit in with that.
I agree it is very helpful. I do too actually. I’ll share soon about the sentences and visualization I use and I do find too that it helps with concentration and like you said, it depends on what we want to cultivate in us and our intention for our practice. Thanks for your comment and dropping by my channel!
So when going in to meditation I was wondering if it would be more effective to go in with an objective?
Hello Peaceful Breathing, I have a few questions about meditation that hopefully you could answer. So when meditating would it be more effective to have a certain objective in mind? For example: the goal could be self discovery, trying to focus on the moment, or just to simply observing ones thoughts. Because sometimes I go in with no goal in mind ( ps I’m new to meditation) . My last question is can meditation even help with self discovery?
Hello Jah, about your questions: yes, it is more beneficial to set an intention before meditation. This helps to align your effort of concentration on what you want to do or else, we can just sit and feel a little lost without an intention.
About self discovery, meditation is (to me) the foundation of self discovery. When we meditate, we can calm our mind, slow down our thoughts. From that, we can be more easily in touch with what is happening within us: our fears, what makes us anxious, what makes us angry or we can listen to our self doubt or judgement. We can also nourish the good seed within us of love and compassion. And in future videos, I will share more about practicing mindfulness in daily life where we can become aware of our habit energies … our habit energies are the ways we’ve been doing things on autopilot, often we have learned them from our environment, our parents, our society … but they have become habits so we are not aware of them. Self discovery is also discovering our habit energies and transforming them if they do not serve our intentions.
Ah, also, I have made a video on setting intentions here: https://youtu.be/_X0X2aItNiI. Hope this will be useful. Thank you for your question!
Thank you for your useful tips and identifying the pitfalls of meditation! I have hit abit of a wall with my meditation after practising it everyday twice a day for 4 months (with the occasional missed opportunity when I have other plans)
This was very useful and challenged my approach so I am looking forward to implementing your tips into my practice today!☮️
Hi Giorgia, glad the video was helpful. If you r looking for something to challenge you in you meditation practice, please watch my lasted video on practicing mindfulness in everyday life. This one will keep you challenged for a while!! Glad to have you here. Feel free to drop a message when you feel like it. I am always curious to know how my audience is doing in regards to their practice. 🙏
This video was so helpful! I feel like meditation is so intimidating at first, don’t be afraid to start! 🙂
Often, our ideas and expectations of meditation are our biggest obstacles 🙂 thx for the comment!
This was sooo helpful! Thank you!
Hi Valla! Thank you, I am glad this helped! There are a few other videos with some tips on my channel so maybe you’ll find them useful as well. Whats your meditation practice like? Did u just get started or have u been doing this for some time? Would you like me to cover any specific topic?
Hi Oliver, I found this video yesterday when looking for training on mindfulness and I have now subscribed to your channel. Thank you for sharing the basics! I wanted to start mindfulness meditation and I watched hundreds of YouTube video but none helped, I just felt overwhelmed. Now I feel more comfortable and ready to start with small steps.
Hi Cristina, that is so awesome! You will see, learning mindfulness meditation is an incredible journey and I am so glad you found a resource to help you. Yes my channel is all about helping people to meditate, make things simpler so I am delighted to read that my video just did that.
You will find many videos on my channel. Just listen, don’t try to remember everything. Little by little, things will fall into their places. Listen, let go. Listen again, let go. Keep it light and simple.
Feel free to leave your questions too, I am always happy to clarify things.
Have a great week!
as a beginner’s guide, it is correct. I’m very fond of mindfulness and observation and all my Sadhanas are anchored in observation plus tools. but let’s examine observation. there is a subject, the one who is observing, there is an object of observation and there is a process of observation going on between the subject and the object. if you can see all three at the same time, you arrived at the next level of meditation, witnessing. you are no longer involved in any of the three, you just see them clearly and you can let go anytime you wish. witnessing will continue, but if there is nothing to witness, it turns around or better put into itself (similar as in the case of a black hole) and witness witnessing. that is the highest point of meditation. if you remain in this state long enough you will reach the point of no return and you will get enlightened. only there will be no you anymore in the usual sense of this word.
Thank you Boris for this commentary on observing the mind with the mind. You seemed to already be very advanced in your practice. Like you said, the challenge is to maintain this wisdom in our everyday life which is what most of us find difficult. My channel is targeted towards those who are stepping into meditation. So I try to offer simple and practical tips. But when the time comes, I will also share about non dualistic wisdom and how it applies in our every day life. Thank you for stopping by and leaving your insightful comment, much appreciated!
Ive just meditate 3 or 4 times but there are this 2 times when i meditated i just had a feeling of connection with my mind and my body i cant describe the feeling of relaxation that i had, but i can compare it to 1 of my lsd trips and when i say it i mean that for a moment i was feeling so open minded about everything, but there are moments when see things in the time that i meditate and they throw me away from the meditation or even cut my breath for a second and make me open my eyes like i was in a lucid dream.
A good part of meditation is to bring the mind and the body together. Most of the time, our mind is not with our body. It wanders in the past, in the future or fantasize about things. But our mind is really at home when we bring it back to the body. I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-bBGY0FCw&list=PL9x2nQSoZsvmAHbGqQcaHSaRBrCyOLG9P&index=13. Our mind really longs to be at home, to stop running but it is its habit. Once our mind and body are together, we can learn to relax our mind and our body. If our mind is somewhere else, we cannot relax our body.
After you continue practicing meditation and observing your thoughts, you will become less distracted by them and be able to recognize them and let them go. Good luck!
Based on scientific literature, I see 2 types of meditation – 1. open monitoring (mindfulness) and 2. focused attention (concentration). And every single meditation falls in one of these categories or a mix of two. Do you see the same? Thank you!
Hi Andrey! Great channel you have! I think you are quite right about those 2 broader categories. Keep in mind I am not a meditation master, just someone who practices. Like the 2 hemispheres of our brain, there are many neural networks within each one and different meditations exercise different neural pathways. So I wouldn’t dismiss one type of meditation because there is another one that falls into the same bigger bucket. You have practices to cultivate awareness, others to cultivate love, others to hold our pain …
Furthermore, mindfulness and concentration are within one another. When we have mindfulness, we have concentration. And when there is concentration, there is mindfulness. My teacher often draws 3 circles within each other. The first and larger one, is the circle of mindfulness. Within it, is the circle of concentration. And within the circle of concentration is the circle of insight.
Why did u ask this question in the first place?
This video was spot on about me. I am not that great at meditation and often become frustrated. Thank you so much for giving me the proper instructions. May your journey prosper with success and much love. Blessings, dear sweet soul brother.
Hi Kathryn, thank you, glad this video was of some help! Wishing you much ease, peace and joy on your path. Be well!
Thanks–love your down to earth approach. Love your French accent. From Canada, hats off!!
Hi Johnny! Thanks for your kind words and support!
This video helped A LOT. Loved the “half smile of the Buddha” has helped me being more aware during my day overall
Awesome! Thank you for sharing this!
Hi Marino, just FYI, I am going to start live sessions probably once every 2 weeks on zoom. All free. It’s just to practice together, support each other and get to know each other better! If you’re interested, you can go to my website at peaceful-breathing.com and sign up for my newsletter so I can email the details. Cheers!
I just subscribed. This is precious advice. Thank you so much for helping us 🙏
Thank you for letting me know this was help. Please, feel free to share your questions and comments if you’d like me to cover those specifically in a video. Happy end of the year!
Hi! great video, thank you so much. I have a question. When I meditate and thoughts come, I get super angry because I am distract. I even lose time arguing with my self about what should I do. Should I ignore the thought and get back to my breath or should I observe the thought and let it be? Thanks
Hi Rosalia, great question! First, you are aware of your experience which is the most important aspect of meditation… you see thee thought, you can hear yourself arguing and see the emotion of anger rising. Meditation is simply that, observing our experience without getting entangled with it. So first observe your thoughts as they arise, notice how you relate to them … and once you can clearly see your thoughts snd emotions come and go, you can fall back again on the breath. The Brest is an anchor that helps us steady our mind but when we notice another experience, we can attend to it without getting lost in it. And then come back to our breath. It doesn’t l’agave to be a struggle. Hope this makes sense. Let me know!
Hi!!
I have always wanted to learn meditation. Have tried once but did not know what I was supose to be doing! So glad to come across your video and subscribed in an instance. Thank you for sharing your life experience!! ❤
Hello Candy, thank you for leaving your comment. Glad to hear that the channel is helpful. My intention was to provide some clarity on how to get started with meditation because it can be confusing at first. Hopefully you’ll find more useful information. I’ll be back uploading new videos sometimes soon! Meanwhile, take care and feel free to leave comments or questions and I’ll answer them as soon as I can.
– Olivier
@Peaceful Breathing – Meditation and Mindfulness ❤️