Are you stressed? Is the mundane lifestyle getting to you? If your answer is yes, and has been yes for a while, you would likely have been asked to meditate. But meditation sounds complex and boring, right? Then why do so many people recommend you do it?

This is why – meditation is not an exercise, task, or activity where you apply your mind. It is a state of rest. So deep that it can be deeper than the deepest sleep you can ever have. In this state, your mind is still and at peace – free from worry and agitation, and this is when meditation happens.

You may have been practicing meditation regularly but have you noticed that at times, when you sit to meditate, your mind seems to take get tangled in your world of thoughts? Learning how to meditate is the first step, however, to have deeper experiences in meditation, you need to learn more ways.

Following these tips can help you make your meditation deeper.

• Calm Your Body And Breath

Our mind, body and breath are interconnected. So relaxing the body and calming the breath will naturally calm the mind as well. The parasympathetic nervous system gets activated, and as a result, the stress response will be down-regulated. That is why, in the system of Yoga practice, one works with postures (asanas) and breathing regulation (pranayama).

• Find Contentment

The brain is designed to seek pleasure and reject pain. Before you start practicing deep breathing meditation, try finding a place of contentment and joy within yourself. Once your brain has picked up the message that you are safe and all is well, restlessness and anxiety naturally decrease.

• Find A System That Works For YOU…

There will never in the annals of time be two people who have the same human experience from birth to death. Not ever. In that, I recognize how unique I am, and that not every system – no matter how effective it might be for millions upon millions of other people – will necessarily work for me. The combination of experiences through which I have lived will never be repeated or experienced by another. This is true for each of us. And as unique and varied are those experiences, so are we as individuals. I wrote in conjunction with my meditations early on, documenting the thoughts and feelings that constantly flowed to and through me as I struggled to remain focused on what I was doing. It turned out that most of those things just wanted to be noticed so that I could understand them. My thoughts and feelings wanted to help me in my journey, but I had never given them the appropriate amount nor type of attention that would allow for a true understanding of what they were trying to tell me for so many years. Without this key element, I don’t know if I would have been able to find any success. I probably would have quit long ago. I believe that if one really sets one’s mind to it and just starts walking the path, the tools we need will make themselves known to us through the energy we omit.

Peace and love, and Happy Meditating!