New to\u00a0meditation? Need some help getting started?\u00a0<\/span>You\u2019re in luck! We at OmStars have put together this simple Beginners\u00a0Guide\u00a0to Meditation to help you get started!<\/p><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meditating might seem a lot more complicated than it actually is. You don\u2019t need to have a calm quite mind in order to meditate. In fact, meditation is designed to help you <\/span>create<\/span><\/i> a calm, quiet mind, even if you feel like your thoughts are constantly all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n Check out these 7 simple steps to get started with your meditation practice, then give it a try and let us know what you think.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 1:<\/b>\u00a0Find a quiet place where you can sit comfortably for at least 5 minutes, either in a chair, on the floor, in your bed \u2013 anywhere that works for you.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 2:<\/b>\u00a0Sit up tall and be still.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 3:<\/b>\u00a0Begin to relax, softening all the muscles in the body from head to toe. Don\u2019t forget to unclench your jaw <\/span>\ud83d\ude09<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 4:\u00a0<\/b>Become aware of your breath, observing each inhale and exhale.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 5<\/b>: If your mind starts wandering, just notice your thoughts, and then let them go, bringing your awareness back to your breath.<\/span><\/p>\n Step 6:<\/b>\u00a0Continue for at least 5 minutes, coming back to your breath every time your mind starts to wander<\/span><\/p>\n Step 7:<\/b>\u00a0Repeat these steps every day.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>See? Meditation\u00a0can be as simple as sitting still for 5 minutes and just focusing on your breath. Even if your mind is particularly active and seems to be jumping around, simply sitting down for 5 minutes and making an effort to bring your mind back to your breath, still counts as\u00a0meditation. <\/span><\/p>\n The best way to get the most out of a meditation practice is to do it every day, with consistency. Think you can find 5 minutes every day to sit down and\u00a0meditate?\u00a0Give it a try for 30 days and let us know how it goes! New to\u00a0meditation? Need some help getting started?\u00a0You\u2019re in luck! We at OmStars have put together this simple Beginners\u00a0Guide\u00a0to Meditation to help you get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,46,4,8],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice","tag-guide","tag-meditation","tag-practice","tag-yoga"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/OW0A5687.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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