Summary:
Meditation is the practice of learning how to work within the mind, for developing compassion and sensitivity, as well as personal strength and inner peace. Here, the main points of meditative practice are discussed, with instructions on how to get started.

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The human brain tends toward excessive emotionality. This can tie the reasonable mind up in knots, confusing us and leading us to hold contradictory beliefs at the same time without even realizing it. Combined with the common general need to feel in control, this not only makes personal crises difficult to handle, but can wreak havoc on us in everyday life.

Many of us carry around banter in our heads. We talk to ourselves incessantly, in emotions and sometimes in words, creating whole internal worlds which, while we may not fully notice, still affect our actions and the quality of our happiness. Meditation seeks to calm our unnecessary inner conversations, clarifying our thoughts and widening our ability to perceive existence with accuracy and compassion. The goal is to relax while being acutely aware of our internal and external environments.

The first small step is to consider our relationship with the way we breathe. We are always breathing, but we hardly ever take note of this. Listen to your breath, right now, for a few moments. If you are unfamiliar with meditation, your natural desire for control will most likely leave you feeling short of breath after a short while. Then, if you stop listening, you will breathe comfortably again.

The first goal, then, is to listen to your breath without trying to control it. Calm the impulse, when listening, to change the depth or speed of your breathing. Consider humility: while you can control your breath if you want to, it is best left to flow naturally, without your help. This is true of many things.

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