B 2.3.2 The practice of meditation.
B 2.3.2 The practice of meditation.
Firstly, begin with the practice. The simplest form of meditation is to concentrate on one’s own breath. All that is required is seclusion for a minimum of fifteen minutes daily.
One sits upright, in any comfortable position, focuses the eyes on the bridge of the nose, or on an object five to six feet away, and counts both the duration and frequency of the breaths. If this is too difficult, it will be sufficient to count the frequency of the breathing. Typically, we breathe about seventeen times a minute – as the practice of meditation develops through time the frequency of breathing drops gradually down to roughly once a minute.
All this is very simple to say but very hard to achieve, as anyone who has tried meditation will acknowledge. The key to achieving the considerable rewards of meditation is an accessible framework within which one can understand and develop the experiences of thought during meditation.
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A beginner’s mistake is to reduce the frequency of the breath by controlling the breath. There are other systems (HathaYoga and other Eastern Systems) which use control of the breath, but this secular Western system does not.
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Uncontrolled is the key word, here. Observe the breath slowing, without interfering. Allow it to slow at it’s own pace, and use that as a marker of your advancing development.