
Meditation can help you even if you don't think you are a good meditator. But, this won't happen if you don't practice. Give yourself a chance to see the results in your own life and you won't be sorry!
Even "bad" meditations help. Just do your best.
Use this to feel peace right away. This is a meditation for beginners. Use it as often as seems helpful. Eventually you'll learn how to get into it yourself. Inner peace can become a habit!
Meditation is not just sitting and blanking the mind of thoughts. It's an art and a skill that must be developed over time like learning to play a musical instrument, or how to excel in a sport.
Think of meditation as "spiritual hygiene." Like brushing your teeth or bathing. We do many things to take care of the body, but little to take care of the mind and spirit. Meditation is great but it can't help you, if you don't practice.
Calm the mind by controlling the breath, then deepen concentration by following the breath outward, turning thoughts and ego into a mindful observer through meditation.
Learn a powerful breathing technique to control your emotions and stay centered in difficult situations.
Learn how to use a meditation bench and how to adjust it to fit your body.
The second guided meditation for Chapter 1. This practice is to prepare you for the technique we introduce in Chapter 2. It would be good to practice this until it feels comfortable for you before proceeding to the next chapter.
Discover the Hong sau mantra, a vibration-rich meditation blending words of power with breath work. Practice uses measured breathing, silent repetition of 'Hong' and 'saw', and observation to cultivate peace.
Transition from the Hong-Sau technique into a silent period with joy and gratitude. Cultivate inward focus by keeping the spine tall, watching the breath, and using mantra or visualization.
Master Hong-Sau meditation by balancing mantra and silent gaps in a 10–20 minute session. Start with tension–relaxation, posture, and mindful breathing, then deepen into stillness and devotion.
Feel the breath in the nose and stay open to sensations in the throat, chest, or belly; shift toward the bridge of the nose during hong saw practice.
Meditate to access the superconscious mind, where awareness rises above thoughts and past impressions; embrace open-hearted trust, see problems as opportunities, and experience deeper peace and expansive potential.
Practice a guided eye-gaze exercise to access three levels of consciousness—conscious, subconscious, and super conscious—shifting from screen to floor to upward gaze to elevate awareness in meditation and daily life.
Develop intuitive or higher guidance through a meditation technique that releases attachment, tests two small choices, visualizes options, and measures calmness, breath, and heart rate to reveal the right path.
If you are just starting out meditating and want more energy, to feel less drowsy, or to be more alert and focused, practicing these before you meditate can really help.
These are a couple of exercises taught by Paramhansa Yogananda, to prepare one for meditation. They are just a sample of the full set which includes about 40 different techniques. The full set only takes about 12-15 minutes once you know them and I can highly recommend them for improving physical health as well as meditation.
Engage in daily selfless service as a homework task: perform a good deed for seven days, note your before, during, and after feelings, and deepen your meditation practice.
Meditate in short bursts with deep concentration, starting around five to ten minutes, avoid spacing out, then gradually extend as your focus deepens, aiming for two daily sessions.
Explore yoga-based meditation times—dawn, sunset, noon, and midnight—and discover how environment, nature, and intuitive guidance shape a devotional practice not full of food.
Move from wandering thoughts to silence by using breath, a mantra or affirmation, and focus on a focal point or higher ideals to deepen your meditation.
Set up a dedicated meditation space facing east (preferred) or north, separate from the room, with fresh air and cool comfort, a clear focal point, and a notepad for ideas.
Choose uplifting inputs for your consciousness to support meditation. Manage your environment, companions, and media to foster inner peace and deeper practice.
Adjust your meditation practice to stay awake: avoid heavy meals before meditating, try light caffeine if needed, optimize posture and fresh air, and use energizing tension exercises.
Address anxiety and facial tension with tension-release exercises. Avoid stimulants and refined sugar before practice, and use scalp tapping with measured breathing and a double breath, repeating three times.
Cultivate acceptance as the core attitude, directing energy inward and upward, staying centered through posture and breath, and choosing to work with what is, not what ifs, to deepen meditation.
Cultivate gratitude by accepting life as it is, using personal challenges to grow and extend selfless service, deepening your daily meditation practice.
Develop devotion through gratitude, service, and meditation, recognizing ego, reincarnation, and consciousness as paths to inner peace and a life lived for others.
Explore the honeymoon phase of meditation, avoid craving experiences, and cultivate steady daily practice, perseverance, and gratitude to deepen inner peace and understanding.
This course teaches Yogananda's meditation techniques for beginners.
Make Inner-peace and joy the cornerstone of your life.
A systematic approach, practical tools, and individualized support to help you develop your daily meditation until it becomes a life skill.
Take our meditation class challenge! Use our proven technique of meditation and practice once per day -even for ten minutes and you will soon find yourself craving this special time. Your level of joy and peace in daily activities will rise. Your “emotional fuses” will get longer and you will feel anxiety, anger or depression less often and with less intensity. As your practice of meditation continues to deepen the results of your efforts become more powerful. Calmness, and Joy that radiate from within are the attributes of those who meditate deeply.
You'll learn an ancient technique of meditation from India as it was taught by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi.