How to get started with meditation

New Delhi, July 20 Despite its immense health benefits, getting started with meditation can be challenging.

According to Sarvesh Shashi, Founder, SARVA and Diva Yoga, the big question of 'how to meditate' can be answered in so many ways really because it has no single answer and is so subjective in nature.

He says: If you are new to meditation, choose one technique of meditation which is easy or suits you and try bringing it into your daily routine. There are many guided meditations available online to choose from, however this technique is one of the most simple one to follow, especially if you are a beginner.

Choose the same time of the day if possible and try to find that silent corner of the house where you sit to meditate

You can keep some plants around you and a soft pillow at this place and can choose to come back to this place every time you want to meditate

Set a time of 2 minutes to start with, which you can slowly increase as per your comfort

Start simple. Find an anchor or a point of focus, it can be your breath, it can be the sounds around you, it can be the eyebrow center or simply focusing on your pulse or heartbeat

Bring your attention to your anchor and try to keep the attention there. Every timeyour mind wanders into future past thoughts bring your attention back to your anchor

It may sound and even be difficult to focus attention if one is a beginner, but keep at it, says the yoga master, adding that with regularity and daily practice, onewill be able to increase the time for which they sit for meditation and slowly, they will notice themselves getting better at it.

Some most-practiced meditations

Focus or concentrative meditation, where you will have a point of focus for your meditation. It could be your breath, or any such anchor

Mindfulness meditation is somewhat similar to focus meditation, in that we look at our thoughts from an objective point of view, without judging them. We just observe the thoughts and let it pass by without holding on to one thought obsessively

Movement bases meditation, where one is active from the body and the entire focus is on the movement and nothing else, you are deeply focused and this can bring you to the stated Dharana

( With inputs from IANS )