Everywhere we search for mental health we get this word MEDITATION. Almost everyone talk about doing mediation and breathing techniques.
What’s Meditation?
I believe meditation is a mental exercise. Meditation is a practice where we sit on a quite place and be present at the moment. All we do during meditation is being at present.
My very first experience
Well, today I’ll share you my experience of doing meditation for the first time. It was 3years back when I started doing mediation and yoga.
Why???
I’ll start with my back story.
Because my life wasn’t running well as what I actually wanted to be and it’s quite frustrating to me. At that point of time all I knew was “nobody can help me unless I help myself”.
Ever since I was a kid I used to do yoga but I never did mediation because I didn’t knew it’s importance. I didn’t knew how much mental health values in our life. But since my life wasn’t going as what I expected and I wanna live in peace I started searching for solutions and everywhere I found one answer and that was- MEDIATION
Well almost every sites told about how to do so I decided to do it for the first time in my life. And for the first time I did meditation.
My experience
I started with yoga asanas followed by pranayam and finally to dhyan (meditation). I sat on my yoga mat with cross leg position. My hands on my lap in resting positing, thumb and index finger touching each other and eyes closed.
For few minutes I thought of present situation but then after some minutes everything means up.
My very first experience was so horrifying. It was as if I was watching my own movies. It was like all those emotions, all those life experiences and all those problems I’ve been running away from, are all coming to get me back. I don’t think there’s any words to explain that experience.
Then for first time I didn’t do meditation after about 5min may be because all my life’s experiences were coming in from of my eyes. I went back to my room and thought may be I didn’t do it in right way. Since I was determined to do meditation I promised myself to do it again tomorrow.
That same thing happened to me for may be about 3 days then on my 4th day no matter how much I was getting my flashbacks I was determined to do so I continue doing meditation. Then guess what??
After getting all those flashbacks after few minutes my mind became blank. I was as if all of my mental problems vanished. Like when we try to delete something on our phone or in our laptops and in computer we get suggestions like are you sure you want to delete this file? And then when we click yes all those files gets deleted. My experience with doing meditation was very similar to deleting files on laptops, computer or my phone.
After mind gets blank here comes the beautiful part. I actually started feeling happy. I felt like I’ve got new life as if I was free from everything. I felt myself as a free and happy soul.
Lesson learnt
- Doing meditation is not easy
- At first it’s difficult but one day you’ll succeed
- If you don’t face your problems you’ll never solve your problems
- Trust yourself and your ability
” Quite the mind and your soul will speak”
-Buddha
My suggestion
When I first started doing meditation it wasn’t easy. All those past memories were coming back towards me but I was determined to do it and I even did it. And now here I am, happy soul. Just remember one thing no matter how hard it is for you, just keep on doing meditation. Of course at first it’s difficult but when you practice you’ll succeed. “Difficult roads most often leads to the beautiful destination”
“Never give up”
“Trust yourself and trust your ability”
Remember, if you don’t do for yourself nobody will. So start from you.
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