Every time use start getting consistent with your meditation routine and there is an upcoming vacation trip or a business trips that will ruin your timetable. This happens with every meditator! But it can be neglected. Meditation can be done regularly wherever you are and whenever you want to! It is just about setting right priorities and timetable for your trip beforehand. We will discuss about the best strategies and tips that you can implement if you are a frequent traveler, to keep your meditation journey continuous without any vacations! 1.      Planning2.      Morning meditation.3 ..read more

I was the most excited when I came to know about meditation and how I can benefit from it. I was a student back then. I started right away, but certain things unfolded while I was enjoying meditation that I didn’t even think about while starting. I implemented meditations with my study schedule, and experimented with so many criteria like: 1. Number of minutes 2. Frequency 3. Time interval between sessions 4. Time of meditation during the day 5. Meditating before exams These are just a few of the many. I also researched for the best times to meditate for students and how to implement medita ..read more

Meditating daily is one thing and being mindful throughout the day is another! Mindfulness is being present in what you are doing right now. Let’s check your mindful monkey, and see how much is it actually mindful! Do you remember what sounds you were listening from outside the window when you were brushing your teeth this morning? The majority of people wouldn't notice these tiny things in life and these little things bring a little more to everyday life. Let me tell you what you were doing when brushing your teeth. Thinking about the upcoming meeting, or that acne on your face, or probab ..read more

What do meditators do to prepare themselves to meditate? I asked some of them and also put in what I have been doing to meditate for these years. Most meditators, have set a time for meditation in their schedule. They already get in the mode of meditation by the scheduled time and they don’t have to do much to prepare themselves for meditation. Though many do these following things to get themselves in meditation mode.  I have been experimenting with meditations and also preparing myself for it. I have tried different times to meditate, different postures, and different types of meditation du ..read more

When I was in the final year of high school, I had goals that were way out of my reach! But I wanted to achieve those at any cost. Read more here. And that was the time when I started meditating. I was completely unaware how meditation was going to change my entire life! Meditation is the best exercise to train your brain for anyone at any age. It can not only make a person healthy but also more powerful in so many ways. Meditation is especially great for students and learners. Here are the 10 reasons why! Better focusIncrease in creativityBetter grasping power and memory retentionIncrease in ..read more

When I changed my work habits moving into the college, my sleep patterns got wrecked! I was not able to sleep throughout the night, it was difficult to fall asleep, and the worst of all, I would wake up feeling a heavy head and it would last till late noon. This was dampening my energy throughout the day and also making me tired early in the day! So, I started with the sleep meditation course of Headspace. And the sleep started getting better at a drastic rate! So what is sleep meditation? Sleep meditation is a type of meditation that you do lying down on the bed, or just before going to slee ..read more

This was the question that I might have searched a thousand times these past three years.  So this is the answer, How long and how often should you meditate depends on the reason why you meditate. If you are meditating to heal your stress or anxiety problems, or other mental illness, you should meditate longer sessions of about 30 to 60 minutes daily. But most people meditate to achieve happiness in life and acceptance. I would name them casual meditators. They might meditate for 5 minutes to 2 hours. It really depends on an individual in so many ways, which is what we will discuss in this ar ..read more

I recently did an experiment where I meditated with two of my friends from college for about three months. One of the reasons was to motivate and cultivate the habit of meditation into them.  Here is the short and simple answer to the question, "Why you should and should not do group meditation?" Meditating in groups has a huge advantage in terms of the daily push that is required to meditate. The other important advantage, as the Indian beliefs and the scientific studies say, meditating in group has a substantial increase in the benefits seen. Whether you will benefit or not also depends on ..read more

There is a lot of fuzz around the in the community of meditation regarding vipassana meditation. There are a lot of retreats for vipassana meditation everywhere. So, lets understand this meditation technique right from the roots and know how to perform it. A little history lesson! Gautam Buddha was the practitioner of the vipassana meditation, and he was the one who propagated it, and might as well have invented it, but we can’t say for sure on that!The Buddhism religion started with the foundation and that foundation was Vipassana. What Buddha preached was not Buddhism, is was vipassana ..read more