SIX WAYS TO MEDITATE
We often hear people talk about the benefits of Meditation. Meditation is very beneficial:
Meditation helps you to receive guidance from God.
Meditation calms you and helps to reduce stress.
Meditation lowers the risks of many diseases including heart disease and high blood pressure
Meditation decreases the impact of ADHD on performance and behavior.
There are several benefits of meditating. However, we often discuss only one way to meditate. We often think of someone sitting with their legs crossed and their eyes closed when meditating. This is definitely a good way to meditate; closing the eyes especially helps you to relax, in addition to taking deep breaths. However, there are other ways to meditate as well.
As mentioned earlier being still in solitude is definitely a beneficial way to meditate and help you to bring peace upon yourself.
You can use God’s Word to meditate. You can select your favorite Bible verse or the Bible verse most appropriate for you in the moment to recite repeatedly in order to remind yourself, increase your faith on it or to call onto God.
You can use music to meditate. Sometimes I’ll meditate on a certain praise song several times. For example, Captain of my ship by Oleta Adams is a beautiful song that reminds me of how beautiful God’s love is and how important it is to keep Him in control of my life. The melody of the song is just as soothing as the words. Music is a very powerful tool in meditation.
You can use your body to meditate. By focusing on every part of your body you can meditate on the feeling in your toes up to the top of your head. This helps you to tune in to yourself. This type of meditation is often used when praying for healing of certain body parts unto God.
You can meditate with movement. Some people couple meditation with Yoga in order to focus on body movements as a way to center the mind and emotions. You can also use walking or running as way to meditate on your movement and center your mind and emotions.
Once you become really advanced, you can meditate doing anything. You can focus on God and being still during any part of your day, whether at work, home or in the grocery store. Meditating is exercising the muscles of your mind, spirit and emotions.
P.S. Be still and know that He is God. Psalm 46:10
