Your whole being is comprised of two aspects: external and internal.

However, you spend most of your time on the external aspect. In order to pay attention and connect with your internal aspect, meditation can be completed. The truth is that we are so focused on the outside world that we forget what is inside us. We lost our balance and that places us in a dangerous form.

The easy-to-follow meditation instructions below can aid you to achieve external and internal balance.

1. Before starting to meditate, sit down and allocate the energy of your body, heart and mind in order to relax within your stillness. This is the period to submit to awareness, mindfulness and wakefulness. Seek for a peaceful and comfortable area like a room where there is little or no noise, no phone rings, no one will come in, etc. It is very imperative that you are physically comfortable when doing this meditation. This is helpful in preventing distraction that may arise from physical discomfort. It is much better if you sit straight in a comfy chair. Also make sure that you are unrestricted from tightness because of your clothing.
2. Take a few minutes to unwind and establish a state of ease in your body. Start with closing your eyes and mouth, normally breathing through the nose. Take a couple of deep breaths. Your aim is to focus your attention inward, staying away from the outside world of thought and time, to the realm of stillness. You must have an idea to focus upon so you can gradually draw from the outer, disordered side of things.
3. This focus is your breathing. Be mindful of your breathing with every inhale and exhale. Once you are mindful of how you breathe, gently start breathing in your abdomen. This means you should breathe through your diaphragm and not from your lungs. During inhalation, the lungs expand downward instead of out. And if you find it hard to breathe through your diaphragm or you do not know how to, then breathing normally will do. Just make sure to relax as best you can.
4. Pay close attention on your breathing. You should feel every inhale and exhale. Free your attention from the thoughts about the past and future. Free your mind from everything and let yourself to be more focus on your breathing. With the use of your ill, hold on to your attention and just be with your breath.
5. Constantly remember your mindfulness, also being conscious to the inhale and exhale of your breath. If you find being preoccupied with thoughts, slowly bring your focus back to your breathing. With every breath, bring yourself into the present for which it is really the only present that subsists. It is in the present that you can discern deep levels of your mind and being.
6. Now that contain your breathing, gently focus your attention inwards and seek for the stillness in your mind. When you find silence, remain with it. Be the stillness. You have a lot of time all day to be with your thoughts. But now is the period of stillness. You should feel the silence and be in it. If you are again diverted to thoughts, focus your attention back to your breathing and remove from your thoughts. Then gently go back to the silence.
7. If you find it hard to find that silence and resting on it, try reciting the word “om” in a natural repetition. Utter the word silently inside your mind. Feel the words’ vibration as you repeat it and engross yourself in it. If you are diverted to thoughts, gently return your attention in repeating the word.
8. Do not be worried if you notice that you are thinking a lot. This is just normal. In time, you will achieve the ability to quiet yourself. Just like anything else, all it needs is constant practice.
9. Try doing this meditation once every day during the evening for 15-20 minutes. Make it a unique part of your everyday routine. As you get familiar with your meditation, you can add a morning session for the same amount of time.

Where to Meditate?

If it is possible, set an area that could be exclusively used for meditation. Eventually, it will be filled with spiritual vibrations. Anything like the corner of your bedroom, a small room or a closet will be enough, as long as its ventilation is good.

Make sure to keep it simple. All that you require is a small cushion or a chair and maybe a small altar. If possible, you should face east, and put a silk blanket or wool on the floor to help insulate you from the magnetic currents of the earth.

During meditation, the most challenging task you will ever face is finding the stillness within, for silence is considered as something foreign to the state of our minds. Constant practice is what you will really need. However, this is possible if you are determined.

Meditation can be deep and meaningful, for you will feel the effects of resting within silence every day in your life. Combining it with consistent exercise, it is a great stress reliever. For with meditation, silence is everything.