Stilling Your Mind During Your Meditation Practice

This exercise will help you to still your mind by monitoring your thoughts as they come and go during meditation. 

1) Sit in your meditation position. Relax, breathe naturally and easily, and focus your attention on your thoughts, don’t stop or censor your thoughts, allow them to flow freely in and out of your consciousness. Imagine that your thoughts are ripples on a pond. Be patient and you should eventually feel enveloped in stillness.

2) When you feel calm, centre your mind on the word “peace”. Let this word be the essence of your meditation. Meditate on this word. Let it fill your mind and body, and allow it to resonate through you.

3) After 2 or 3 minutes, release the word so that only the essence of peace (the physical sense of its presence) remains within you.

4) At the end of your meditation, notice how relaxed you feel, try to hold on to this feeling. Breathe a little more deeply for a minute and then open your eyes.

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practised, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body. This meditation will help you achieve that.

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