Meditation is a simple and practical way to enhance the quality of your life and today it is becoming a regular part of daily life for people from every walk of life.  Once seen as trippy and esoteric, mindfulness meditation and other types of relaxation meditation are frequently investigated by scientists and are becoming embraced by ordinary people who at one time would have never considered such an activity.  By reading this first Meditation Tips post you have already accomplished the biggest step of your meditation training, which is just getting started.

This blog will explain the basic steps that you can use to begin your own practice and offer helpful tips for practitioners of any amount of experience.  We also invite you to share your experience with other readers.

The instructions presented here are very traditional and have been practiced for many centuries by millions of people.  While they are simple and direct instructions, they are also very effective and profound.  Welcome to the community of practitioners of this insightful and beneficial path!

The steps

1. Meditation Posture
2. How to work with thoughts, emotions and sense perceptions

Please begin with the section on body meditation, describing the meditation posture which is one of the most important and helpful instructions stressed by meditation masters for many centuries.  After that I will post the main meditation instructions on how to work with thoughts, emotions and sense perceptions.

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