Learn To Create A Daily Meditation Practice

Beginners Guide to Meditation

What you'll learn
Preparing to meditate
Understand the benefits of meditation
Knowledge of how to practice meditation
Increased ability to focus the mind, even during stressful situations
Improved awareness of the world within
Requirements
No experience required! This course will teach you what you need to know about meditation
Description
Meditation is a powerful practice that our ancestors have practices for thousands of years as a way to release stress and anxiety, gain mastery over their emotions, and cultivate lasting happiness and well-being. Today it is thought of as a fringe practice that you need a specific set of beliefs to practice, and that it is very difficult to learn. While meditation can be difficult, it is a simple process that is available to everyone that is willing to learn about themselves. Meditation as a practice is simple, the difficulty comes when trying to maintain a daily practice and practicing without judgement.  Meditation is a way to better understand ourselves by letting go of our need to "do" and instead opening up to experiencing whatever is present at any moment. This course will help take some of that stigma away from this ancient but powerful practice, and hopefully students of this course will be able to create a daily meditation practice that they can sustain. We will go through and learn about the physical, mental, and emotional benefits that meditation can bring, as well as a different way of looking at meditation. Meditation should be a way to connect with the self- to understand why certain thoughts, emotions and perceptions are present, without any judgement or without trying to come up with any reasons why they might be present. With a proper understanding about what is present at any moment, we can accept it, then direct our energy into making the best decisions that will help us grow, instead of letting this things create stress and suffering

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is Meditation?

Section 2: Why Should I Meditate?

Lecture 3 Benefits of Meditation

Lecture 4 How Meditation affects the Physical Body

Lecture 5 How Meditation affects Emotions

Lecture 6 How Meditation affects the Mind

Lecture 7 What is Stress?

Lecture 8 STOP method to reduce stress

Section 3: Before you Practice

Lecture 9 Preparing to Practice

Lecture 10 Quick yoga practice to prepare the body for meditation

Lecture 11 Two types of Meditation

Lecture 12 Focused, Open Awareness and Metta Meditation

Section 4: How to Practice Meditation

Lecture 13 Object of Meditation

Lecture 14 Mindfulness

Lecture 15 Trataka Meditation

Lecture 16 Eating Meditation- Slowing down to eat

Lecture 17 Mindfulness of Thoughts

Section 5: *Bonus* Introducing Yoga Nidra

Lecture 18 30 min Yoga nidra with calming music

Lecture 19 Yoga Nidra for deep relaxation

People interested in starting a meditation practice,Anyone looking for stress relief,People with difficulty sleeping,People who suffer with anxiety or depression,People that want to understand how their mind works