Meditation...

**Hessah** · 05-18-2009, 04:27 AM

Have you guys had times where you try to go to sleep... but your mind is racing with heaps of problems / thoughts / random buzzing things... and you toss and turn and can't go to sleep??

I've recently heard a little meditation technique... That I think it has helped me sleep on those funny nights...

When people tell you to meditate, they tell you to not think about anything right? But... how do you keep your mind blank? I never understood that..

So what I was told.. was you concentrate on breathing. Just think "Breathe in... Breathe out... Breathe in.. Breathe out..."

You may find that your mind drifts to all these other thoughts, but try not to think about them and only think about breathing...

after a min or two I usually fall asleep....

**cillia** · 05-18-2009, 04:29 AM

My 5th grade teacher had us do that every morning before we started class~ ^^ it really calmed us down~ its a good technique. :3

**Hessah** · 05-18-2009, 04:34 AM

Do you fall asleep? xD

Apparently some people can meditate for 20 mins like that in a quiet room.. and they feel as if they slept for hours...

**cillia** · 05-18-2009, 04:40 AM

XD no one ever fell asleep since we only did it for about 10 mins. plus sometimes our teacher would tell us to do that "hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" thing... and a certain person in our class "hummmmmmmmmmmmms" like a moter cycle.. LOL so alot of people cracked up and the whole meditation thing failed XD

**Hessah** · 05-18-2009, 04:41 AM

LOL!! I could imagine how distracting that would be xD

**Ralath** · 05-18-2009, 04:45 AM

Something that really helps me is to "see nothing."

So even though it'll be dark and my eyes will be closed, your brain still is "seeing" different images. The first thing I try to do is make those images turn black, so the only thing I'm seeing is black. And then I turn black into nothing. xD