Meditation Tips for Everyone

Hello, my name is Michelle. Welcome to episode 3 of the Nature of Meditation podcast.

In this episode, I share Meditation Tips for Everyone. I suggest listening to this podcast without doing anything else at the same time to aid the cultivation of presence and stillness.

So, let's start with our usual three-minute silent meditation practice, to arrive in our present moment experience. I will be silent now for three minutes and become more present and aware.

And I invite you to take your seat and start coming into your present moment experience.

Back in the present moment.
A meditation teaches way of being and way of speaking. Matter, because meditation cannot be taught. It can only be caught.

Meditation is contagious. And a teacher's way of being is the real teaching. Not anything that they say or do. So if you are here now, becoming more aware of your present moment experience.

It means that you have picked up the vibration of meditative energy that I'm transmitting and embodying. And you are attuning to meditative energy and resonating with it. And meditative energy is not mine and does not belong to me.

We all share it. I receive it from my teachers who transmitted it to me, and I share it with my students and clients, and they share it with the people in their lives. The invitation is to relax as best as you can, because this meditation is not an intellectual exercise.

And the main meditation tip that I can share is not to try too hard. And don't wait until your meditation is perfect. If you try too hard or think too much, meditation will not occur for you.

So the tips I am sharing are not a to-do list. And after you hear each Meditation Tip, just let it go.

Each tip knows whether or not it's time to have a meaningful relationship with you now. The way knows the way. And you don't have to worry about meditating.

I'm going to number the first Meditation Tip, an effortless zero, and call it Don't Overthink It. Don't fall into the trap of making a neuroses out of your meditation practice.

Make no effort to control your learning or your meditation. Simply showing up, taking your seat, and observing your momentary experience as best you can. Is more than enough.

Simply be present to your experience, excluding no part of your experience.

Including all positive and negative experiences. Compassionately acknowledging and embracing your challenges and difficulties.

Acknowledging and embracing your self-judgements and self-criticisms, as well as any ideals you may have about meditation.

And maybe it's more real embracing your difficulties than embracing your achievements.

As you listen to this podcast, my hope is that you may come more into an awakened state of awareness.

And listening to my calm and steady voice, your own nervous system becomes more calm and regulated. Some of you may notice your state of awareness becoming more heightened, more so than in your non-meditative state of being.

And this is because I am consistently inviting you to pay attention to your moment-to-moment experience in your field of awareness. And your senses are working in each moment to offer you unique lived experience.

So let's pause for a few moments before we share meditation tips.

Meditation Tip 1, location.
It's helpful to meditate in the same place each day. In an area of your home where you can be alone with your experience, undisturbed by external things.