9 TOP TIPS - Enhance your Meditation

In Part Two of our article on developing a good quality meditation experience - discover the top tips that will help you enhance your skills and technique:

To read Part One of Enhance Your Meditation - visit HERE

Part two - The 9 top tips to help you develop your meditation practice:

1. Ensure you are in a quiet place where there will be no disturbance. That includes no background noise, machines humming, music playing, etc. Any aspect around you that triggers the physical senses (hearing, smell, etc) will keep your consciousness in the physical domain, rather than allowing it to expand into ‘higher mind’. This should be dedicated quiet time, just for you and you ideally need silence.
2. Make sure you are comfortable. Whilst the traditional method of meditation may suggest sitting on the floor, cross legged, that isn’t necessarily comfortable for many people. The body has to be completely at ease during meditation, so sitting upright, on a comfortable chair is suitable and effective. From this position you can relax your hands on your lap.
3. Your mind is always busy processing. Allow for the fact that it is often running a little behind, clearing a backlog of thoughts, ideas and experiences. From the point you sit and become still, it can take five minutes or so for your brain to clear the backlog and become calm and quiet. Just let it work through its own process rather than trying to resist it.
4. It will help to position your conscious mind ‘in time’ before you begin directing attention  into ‘higher mind’. We naturally focus mental attention in the past and the future. So when commencing your meditation, focus your mind on the ‘now’ moment and bring your awareness to be fully present - in the room, in your body, and within your current experience.
5. As you relax into a quiet and still space, you will make space for your own consciousness to expand. Meditation should be an open process, so go into it free of expectation, or the desire for a particular outcome. If you allow the natural process to flow, meditation will bring its own rewards to you. Sit for as long as you are able. The more experienced you become at ‘holding’ a higher consciousness space, the longer your meditation session will become.   
6. As you conclude your session, form a clear intention to return your consciousness fully into the physical body. You have expanded your awareness and therefore it is wise to regain your full sense of presence in the physical body and in your surrounding physical environment. This process is called ‘regrounding’ whereby you purposefully command your awareness into the physical presence in order to reconnect consciously to the earth.   
7. When you are inexperienced, the process of concluding your session may inadvertently be triggered by your mental thoughts re-engaging and your mind suddenly wandering into a thought process. As you gain experience, the conclusion of your session will be directed intentionally by you as the session comes to its own natural fulfilment. Just persevere and keep trying regularly and you will soon be able to ‘hold’ an open and expansive space in your consciousness.
8. When you are first learning, it’s possible that your mind will be able to be still in meditation for only about 10-15 minutes. As you progress with regular practise, you will extend your ability to ‘hold the space open’ in meditation naturally to 20 minutes, 30 minutes and then on to an hour with ease. If you are short on time and cannot get fully into meditation, then even taking just 10 minutes to be quiet and still will be beneficial to your mental well-being.
9. When you are learning, it may also help to try out different times of day and evening for sitting in meditation. Different times of the day work well for different people, and a strict regime of the same time, every day, may not necessarily work for you. Our body rhythms change daily and so times for optimum meditation may be varied. Trust your inner feeling about when you are naturally drawn to meditate.

Sue Zange is the pioneer and developer of Advanced Level Energy Field Healing. She established her specialist healing clinic 25 years ago and has supported thousands of people at all stages of ill-health, helping to improve well-being and transform the quality of their lives. Since 2014, Sue has been raising awareness of subtle energy management for businesses and entrepreneurs. She is an Author, Teacher and Speaker on subtle energies, spiritual growth and enhanced consciousness living. Sue is founder of Grow Inspirit.