Pagans may use meditation for many different purposes. Some may use it as a form of prayer or worship, before doing any kind of spell work, before doing a reading (i.e. tarot or runes), to open up a blocked chakra or
simply to relax and clear the mind and body from daily stress.
With meditation, the objective is to quiet your mind. This is not to say that your mind is completely blank. When I first started to meditate, I thought that this is what I needed to be in an effective meditative state. When I could not obtain this state, it would frustrate me and push me even further away from the state of mind I needed to meditate. For beginners, if you can first clear away the stresses and to-do lists of your daily life for a little bit, consider meditation a success.
If you feel you will need help in focusing your mind, consider using "gazing" to meditate. This is where you use a crystal ball or the flame of a candle to focus your mind and block out any outside influences.
Soft music may also help. Your best choices for this may be new age or sounds of nature. You should choose something that relaxes, while at the same time drowning out any distracting background noise you find in everyday life.
Find a quiet place in your home or outside to meditate. You will need approximately half an hour for an effective meditation session. You will also need a place and time where you will not be distracted from anyone or anything. Turn off the phones in your house, leave your cell phone behind, tell your family that you need thirty minutes to yourself. Find a quiet place such as your bedroom, a garden or anyplace that you will feel most relaxed.
Before beginning, I have found that burning sage is beneficial for the cleansing of negative energy. Use a large feather or your hand to move the sage smoke towards you. Open your mind and feel the negative energy being cleansed from your body. This is not a necessary step, but it helps. Even the most skeptical of people have claimed to feel a difference after doing this.
With meditation, the objective is to quiet your mind. This is not to say that your mind is completely blank. When I first started to meditate, I thought that this is what I needed to be in an effective meditative state. When I could not obtain this state, it would frustrate me and push me even further away from the state of mind I needed to meditate. For beginners, if you can first clear away the stresses and to-do lists of your daily life for a little bit, consider meditation a success.
If you feel you will need help in focusing your mind, consider using "gazing" to meditate. This is where you use a crystal ball or the flame of a candle to focus your mind and block out any outside influences.
Soft music may also help. Your best choices for this may be new age or sounds of nature. You should choose something that relaxes, while at the same time drowning out any distracting background noise you find in everyday life.
Find a quiet place in your home or outside to meditate. You will need approximately half an hour for an effective meditation session. You will also need a place and time where you will not be distracted from anyone or anything. Turn off the phones in your house, leave your cell phone behind, tell your family that you need thirty minutes to yourself. Find a quiet place such as your bedroom, a garden or anyplace that you will feel most relaxed.
Before beginning, I have found that burning sage is beneficial for the cleansing of negative energy. Use a large feather or your hand to move the sage smoke towards you. Open your mind and feel the negative energy being cleansed from your body. This is not a necessary step, but it helps. Even the most skeptical of people have claimed to feel a difference after doing this.
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- Pagan meditation can help you feel more grounded in your spiritual life.
- Meditation helps you deal with daily stress.
- Practice makes perfect with meditation
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Rissa Watkins
04/02/2008
I will definately be trying this- I need all the relaxation I can get. Great article
3lilangels
03/31/2008
Wow very interesting read, I never knew this, great job and very detailed info!!!!!!
SAIKAT KUMAR DUTTA
03/31/2008
Really interesting article, nice as always.
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