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A variety of contemplating methods

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When you think about contemplating method, people usually imagine sitting in a quiet area and closing their eyes until they realize some lesson or truth. Maybe this is true for some religious or martial artists.

However, we just talk about daily meditation for your mental health, for your mindfulness. Regarding on daily meditation methods, it consist of two kinds. First, static contemplating method is sitting in a certain area. That really common concept when people imagine meditation people think about this. Another is dynamic contemplating method which happens when you do something. Such as walking, and driving.

Static Meditation

Static Contemplating, although this term sounds fancy, is actually a really common way to do meditation. As you guess from the name of the term, ‘Static meditation’ is when you do not move and just stop with a certain posture. This contemplating also sorts with postures.

Standing meditation: Doing contemplating by standing up and closing your eyes.
Sit meditation: Sit down on the floor.
lying meditation: lying down on the mat and focusing on yourself.

Although these postures are different, they really help you in for caring your mental health.

When you try this postures, make sure your posture is straight with your back and head, and breathe deeply and naturally.

Standing Meditation

This posture is efficient when you study or work. Especially if you can’t focus on your task. Just stand up from your chair and close your eyes (if you want you can open your eyes too). During this time, you are not try to think about your task, instead, you try to be aware of the smell, sound, or view of nearby. If there is nothing to gaze then turn on the view picture on the monitor that you want to go to or that you like. I believe this picture makes you peaceful and relaxed.

Maybe someone is afraid that you do not have enough time to do that because of the many tasks that you need to do. You don’t need to take too much on this. Even you can try it briefly like 30 seconds. Once you do that, you will be more relaxed or think differently about your task. Even you can smile at your colleague after some short meditation. Also, it is helpful on your eyesight too, as you know after you gaze monitor or device few minutes, you should relax your eyes too. Once you are familiar with this meditation, you can try it several times or longer time in your work place. I pretty sure it helps you to control your stress from work.

Sitting Meditation

Sitting on the chair

You can do this medication when you sit chair, sofa, or park bench. In that case, you should make the right posture, by straight your spine, do not crossing your legs too. Do not worry about other body parts(especially hand and foot), just put it naturally. If you are not sure where should I put the hands, then, put them on the legs naturally.

Sitting on the cushion

Another way is sitting on the cushion. If you enjoy yoga in daily life, you are already familiar with this posture(Like the image just above). If you don’t have a cushion then you can use the yoga mat. I totally recommend you to have the cushion or mat for this posture it is because without it you will feel pain in your leg, foot, and hip. then you can’t focus on meditation even if you can’t try it for a long time. The worst is you don’t want to try contemplating anymore.

Caution for Sitting meditation

When you sit on the cushion try to cross your two legs it helps you to straighten your spine. Also, your head and spine should be in one line. You can close your eyes if not, then you can open your eyes too.

If you are not familiar with this crossed-two-legs posture or hard to do then try a natural posture that you can easily do such as straight your legs or, sitting on a chair.

When you sit, you might be curious ‘what should I do?’ This moment is totally yours, stop thinking about your concerns, If you open your eyes then, you just gaze at what you see now, and from there just think and imagine like, today’s weather is really nice, there is a bird on the tree.

Do not try to no think anything and make your brain empty, I know this is really difficult, even if you success it is really hard to do maintain more than 5 minutes. Instead of making your mind empty. Just stay comfortable and try to relax. If you can’t clear your mind with worries then start counting numbers or focusing on your breath. Like Do I breathe deeply enough, how often do I breath? Then you will start to think other things are not problem anymore.

Lying down Meditation

This meditation, you can easily try this right after you just wake up from sleep shortly. Just start thinking simple questions such as ‘What I am going to do soon?’, ‘Where should I go to today?’ ‘What should I eat for breakfast?’ Or just look out the window and enjoy the moment of morning. But this time you shouldn’t go back to sleep by doing this.

You can also try this meditation after the exercise is done. Lying down on the mat focusing your breath and cooling down your body. At the same time, you can check your body condition too. For example, today after stretching your legs, you will feel your thigh more relaxed than before. Also, you can ask yourself that ‘How’s the exercise? Is it hard for me?’, ‘If so, why it was hard for me? ‘ I believe it makes you enjoy the exercise time and you also aware that your body is healthier than before.

Caution for Lying Meditation

However, I recommend you to try this posture right after you wake up on the bed or after the workout. Then how about before going to sleep? Actually, I do not recommend doing that time at least you really do not have time for contemplating except the night time. It is because when you start contemplatingyour body and mind are relaxed, which causes you to fall asleep. Of course, relaxing and going to sleep well is nice! However, once this happens several times, your mind starts to believe contemplating is going to sleep. So when you try it in the middle of the day, this habit makes you sleep. I want to stress that if you want to try this posture before you go to sleep, you should try few minutes and set the alarm to prevent you from dozing off. Also you should keep aware that this is not sleep and rest. It is meditation, try to keep thinking. Like ‘What did I achieve today’, ‘What was thankful during today’ ‘Do I have a happy moment today? if so, what was it?’

Dynamic Meditation

If static meditation is too boring for you then you can try others to caring your mind. Dynamic meditation, you don’t need to stay in a quiet area or isolate the room. If you want to listen then, you can have it. As you notice from name of meditation, you can move. It could be house choring, dancing, walking or driving. Any movement you can do.

However, One thing is different with regular movement, when you doing meditation you need to totally focused on your breath and your movements. You need to be aware of what you doing now. At the same time, you can ask some questions to myself. Such as ‘How many times do I breathe with this movement?’ ‘How I feel?’ ‘Do I feel comfortable?’ ‘Do I have under stress these days? ‘

Although these are really simple questions, by pondering the answer your mind will be clearer than before you start contemplating. Once you try it several times in daily life, soon you realize, you prefer doing contemplating instead of spending your time on useless such as watching YouTube or the news.

Caution for dynamic contemplating

When you doing this dynamic meditation, do not do violent actions such as boxing. Sometimes, when you dive in thinking, you are easily careless about your activity then it causes some hurt to your body. For example, when you doing boxing you are in the middle of a thought, then you might hurt your wrist when you punch the target. Oppositely, when you totally focus on the exercise such as running at full speed, then you can’t think anything. It is because your body uses oxygen and resources to your body for movement.

When you try dynamic meditation, just join contemplating with your daily routine to make some habits. Furthermore, try to give a stimulus to your body or focus on meditation in daily life.

In Short

To sum up, depending on postures and movement, meditation is divided into two things: ‘Statistic contemplating’ and ‘Dynamic contemplating’. Also, Statistic contemplating can be sorted into three different postures. Although these contemplating are called differently, these contemplating’s main goal is to try to understand myself by paying attention to me having questions and asking myself.

I believe this contemplating helps you to release some stress that you get every day by turning your eyes away to other things, not the circumstance and situation that you facing. Furthermore it is helpful for your brain If you are not familiar with meditation and don’t know how to start meditation every day, ‘why don’t you start one of the methods that you are interested in?’ I believe this small habit becomes a game-changer in your life.

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reference from

How to Meditate: A Primer for Beginners (Article)

How to Meditate

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