What form of meditation is good for a beginner?

Answer 1

indian style, deep breaths with calming music, prefferebly no music, clear your mind and relax the body, back straight

Answer 2

LovingKindness Meditation & Insight or what is commonly known in English as Mindfulness meditation are two excellent forms of Meditations for Beginner's, Intermediate, and Advanced meditators !

Below is an excellent site to learn Insight meditation & *Loving-kindness meditation from:

http://www.buddhanet.net/meditation.htm...

And when money permits for you, pick up the book:
"Mindfulness in Plain English"
BY: Bhante Henepola Gumaratana.
It is an Excellent HOW TO Manuel on Mediation from a Theravadan perspective.
I have just started to re-read this book, with the purpose of practicing it. It is quite important to practice mindfulness meditation
slowly, patiently, without forcing yourself instantaneous results.

With Metta {loving-kindness & friendship).

Answer 3

Mindfulness meditation can be helpful. In it you simply concentrate on being in the moment, largely by focusing on your breath. If other thoughts come to mind, you gently acknowledge their presence and then return to focusing instead on your breath. You can do this for 10 minutes or for much longer periods.

The Zencast podcast offers some Meta meditation, as well as meditation timers. You can find it cost-free on iTunes.

Answer 4

I myself am beginner, here are a few tips I've learned:
My feet fall asleep, so it's hard to concentrate on thoughtlessness when your feet have pins & needles.

I like to say "ommmmmm", it's the basic of all chants & vibrations.

And IT IS HARD to be thoughtless, but I try, I want to be able to meditate, but allowing my brain to be unfettered to earthly needs & materials is HARD! But hey, that's why we're beginners.:o]

Answer 5

It depends on whether you are a "mountain" or a "river."

If you are a river (you tend to move even when asleep) a dynamic meditation is better than a static one. There are dynamic yogas, and the most common dynamic meditation is probably Tai Chi.

Answer 6

Find a quiet place that you won't be disturbed for 30 minutes and focus on your breath. Any thoughts you have should just float away after they appear.

Answer 7

A nice one is to put your forefinger and thumb together and try to find your pulse in your thumb. I have found that rhythmic music is helpful and putting my bum up on a couple of folded blankets or a pillow helps my feet not fall asleep (sit at the edge so just your bum is elevated).

Namaste!

Answer 8

at night in bed try to focus on all the sounds... count them... try to distinguish the farthest away sound... then imagine you slowly begin to float up into the air and that as you rise the only thing visible to you is the energy of life... all else is black. I imagine the life force like a purple haze and as I rise I can see all the purple shapes of trees in my neighborhood and all the people walking, laying in their beds, cruising in cars, , etc... then as I rise higher, the purple blankets of grass across the hills, an occasional pulsating bird... and into space where the invisible Earth is alive with its own purple currents etc...

Answer 9

What ever is true, what ever is honest, what ever is of good

report, if there be any virtue in these thing think on them

always.

Answer 10

sitting or laying quilt with eyes closed, envision a bright white light surrounding you.