How Can One Know If They Are Meditating Correctly

Our mind is like a flowing river that does not stop, and so is our inner force!

Meditation is unlike other things in life where the harder we push ourselves, the greater are our chances of success. On the other hand, the harder we force ourselves to meditate, or the more we try to hold on to our composure, the further we are pushing ourselves away from it.
We need to stop trying to hard to meditate, and let self ease into a state of nothingness.
Meditation can be one of the hardest and yet easiest spiritual thing to master. It can be easy because any can quickly learn the technique and there are also, many available tools to help guide you through a meditation session. Although we can enjoy listening to guided meditation CDs at times, we can also spend the most of our time meditating in silence or with soft music playing in the background. If we are Christians, we can use meditation as a way to spend quiet time with God as well as for the benefits of our mental health.(  Psalms 46:10) says "be still and know that I am God." I believe that it is during these quiet times with God that our spirit is transformed as well as renewed. Other additional benefits for meditation include stress relief, maintaining peace of mind, and controlling negative thinking.
Unlike guided meditation, during silent meditation you don't have any prompts telling you how to relax your body, or a descriptive narrative telling you what to do. It's pretty much up to  you to guide yourself, but that is the easy part.
As I said earlier meditation is easy, because any one can practice it. However, meditation is hard because most of us have a hard time quieting our thoughts and keeping our mind from wandering off. Because of this, some people give up prematurely believing that they can't meditate or it is to hard. But let me give you an analogy of what meditation is like, even what you might consider a "bad" meditation.


Have you ever burnt food in a pot? I have on many occasions. This is one of the worst things about cooking. Well, if you are like me you probably fill the pot with water in an effort to soften the burnt food. Later you come back to the pot with a scrub brush in hand and begin to scrub and scrub until you can start to see the bottom of the pan again. It may take you 20, 40, or 60 scrubs with the brush before you get all that debris off. However, with each scrub you are taking off a little bit more until finally, you have a clean pot again.

That is what meditation is like. Each time your mind wanders off and you bring it back to the present by focusing on your breathing, a sacred word or phrase, it is like one scrub of that brush and little by little you learn to quiet your mind and free it from negative and destructive thinking patterns. With continual practice you can learn to control your mind instead of allowing it to control you.

Therefore, you can't meditate incorrectly unless you give up and don't do it at all.

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Rhonda Jones is the author of 22 Christian meditation and affirmation CDs and creator of The Christian Meditator website, visit at http://www.thechristianmeditator.com Find meditations and affirmations on weight loss, healing, healthy living,and more.