How to Meditate: The Three Parts of Meditation

There are three traditional aspects to meditation: approach, practice and integration.

Approach
Approach is about how you view both the contents of your mind and the technique. Get this right and your meditation will fly; get it wrong and it could seem like an endless struggle.

It's difficult not to expect the perfect result first time around – that's just how we seem to be programmed these days. But the reality is that meditation takes a little practice – like learning any new skill.

First, accept that your mind isn't going to stop whirring just because you want it to – and that's not the point, anyway. The point is to develop a new relationship with your thoughts and feelings that allows positive feelings to simply unfold. (MORE)

Source: The Guardian