A practical guide to meditation

This course has been designed to guide you through the benefits of meditation, explore the equipment you may need, the importance of the environment around you, to learn about the science behind meditation and most of all, about ways to use meditation to take care of ourselves in every day life.

The course has sections that start with setting your environment, posture and points of energy. We will then explore meditation and stress, how the brain perceives meditation and apply our knowledge through 3 forms of meditation practice. During the course, I would like you to use a meditation diary. Use the meditation diary to write down how you feel after each meditation.

Do not worry about what you are writing, nobody but you will ever read it. Transferring thoughts on to paper is a powerful tool to guide us in seeing things as they are.

All forms of meditation are beneficial to nurture ourselves. There is no right or wrong way of meditating as long as we are comfortable, aware, free of judgement and in acceptance. The effects of meditation practice vary and deepen with commitment and length of practice. An ‘occasional meditator’ (1-2 sessions a week) may resort to meditation in times of stressful or difficult times; the ‘regular meditator’ (4+ sessions a week) will be building a level of stress resistance than the occasional person will not have. The ‘professional meditator’ (several hours a day) will almost certainly have these insights and experience states of bliss and happiness. Whichever your story, I hope this is the beginning (or continuation!) of a meaningful journey.