How to Meditate on Something
28 Unique Ways You Can Use Meditation That May Surprise You
Many beginner meditators can make the mistake of thinking there is only one kind of meditation. This is a shame because there are so many ways you can use meditation to benefit and improve your life.
This article is a how to guide, giving you 28 different ways you can use meditation today.
1. How to Meditate On Your Purpose
Meditating with the intention of focusing on your purpose in this world is extremely fulfilling and motivating. In order to meditate on your purpose, begin by sitting or lying in a comfortable position in a quiet setting. Begin by allowing thoughts and feelings around your current life situation flow over you in a free manner. During this process, simply acknowledge the thoughts that pass by you and value their significance. Next, begin to envision the emotions associated energy that would surround you when experiencing transcendent confidence about your personal sense of life purpose. Allow yourself to bask in this positive experience and feel the positive energy deep within your body – use these feelings as motivation to understand your purpose.
2. How to Meditate On Something You Want
Meditating on something you want is often referred to as manifestation. Manifestation is the process of bringing something tangible into your life via attraction, belief and a positive attitude. In order to meditate on something you want, begin by sitting or lying in a comfortable position in a quiet setting and allowing yourself to relax completely. Start by focusing on your breathing and bringing your attention to all sensations surrounding you. Next open your mindset by repeating the affirmation: “My heart is open. I do good, I am good, and I am loved” in your head. Now bring this focus towards a particular goal in which you wish to manifest and envision your life once this goal is achieved.
3. How to Meditate On a Question or Decisions
Meditating can be a positive way to make a deeper connection with your inner most thoughts and emotions in order to make important decisions or answer critical questions. Begin your meditation by sitting or lying in a comfortable position in a quiet setting and allowing yourself to relax completely. Bring your focus to your breathing and begin by letting go of the past and embracing rationality by repeating the mantra: “I am present. I am non-judgmental. My past does not define me and my future is not limited”. Allow yourself to feel a sense of calm and acknowledge the fact that decision making does not need to be stressful.
4. How to Meditate On Emotions
Often meditation can be extremely effective in working through difficult emotions such as anxiety, depression or stress. It can also be used as a method of boosting self-awareness and focusing on understanding the deeper meaning of emotions we are feeling. Begin your meditation by finding a quiet space and sitting or lying in a comfortable position. Ensure that you are honest with yourself during your meditation and acknowledge that all emotions are valid. Listen to your thoughts as you move through your meditation and practice mindfulness and positive thinking. Investigate negative emotions by asking yourself what causes them and offering some ideas on how to avoid these stressors in the future.
5. How to Meditate On a Problem
Meditation has a purifying effect on our mindset and energy by helping us to cultivate and maintain unconditional self-love and self-awareness. Insight is a powerful tool when it comes to overcoming anxiety and effectively making decisions. Meditation is a great way to gain insight and connect with your inner most thoughts on a deeper level. Via meditation, bring yourself to a rested, calm state of mind and envision a desirable version of your life. From this vision of your goals for the future, you will be able to gain insight into what is most important to you in life. This insight is valuable when considering possible solutions for the problem at stake.
6. How to Meditate On Breath
Focusing on your breath during meditation is an effective way to cultivate mindfulness, improve concentration and reduce negative emotions. The most simple and effective way to meditate on your breath is to focus your attention on your breath. When inhaling, notice the way in which the air enters your lungs and expands your body. On your exhale, consider the release of emotion that flows with your breath and exits your body. You may notice that your mind wanders during this process – its okay. Simple accept these thoughts and acknowledge their presence while gently encouraging your focus towards your breath.
7. How to Meditate On Chakras
Chakras refer to the wheels of energy in the body – with seven focal points believed to run from the base of the spine to the crown of your head. Each chakra has a different color association and has specific characteristics regarding our body and mind. To meditate on our chakras, we can focus our energy on a specific chakra location on the body or slowly move through all seven chakras. When moving through all seven chakras, take your time and devote all your energy and focus to each one. Ensure that you acknowledge each chakra as its own entity and remain open minded during the meditation.
8. How to Meditate On Someone You Love
When meditating on someone you love, it is possible to send positive energy to them. You can do this by finding a comfortable position to meditate in and visualizing the person you love in great depth. Ask yourself which details of this person bring you the most joy and practice gratitude by forming 3 reasons why you are grateful for this person. Allow these feelings of love to flow freely through your body and fill your space with warmth and positive energy. When you feel emotions of love and appreciation flowing through your body, practice mindfulness by becoming aware of how these emotions feel.
9. How to Meditate On Pain
Meditation can be used as a tool to treat aches and pains throughout the body by reducing anxiety and associated discomfort. Begin your meditation by finding a comfortable position in a space with no distractions and focus on your breath. Once you enter a state of calm, move your attention from your breath to the location of the pain you are experiencing. Take some time to scan your body and acknowledge the pain. Notice the details of the pain including its sensation and any changes that occur. Bring forward positive thoughts regarding this pain in order to reduce suffering and find a positive connection.
10. How to Meditate On Healing
Although meditation alone cannot heal chronic pain – it can be used as a helpful tool alongside more conventional treatments to reduce anxiety and encourage positive changes in your body. To prepare for a healing meditation, find a comfortable position in a space with dimmed lights and limited distractions. You may like to use a healing mantra such as “Om Mani Padme Hum” which is a Tibetan healing mantra. Alternatively, visualizing a positive healing experience and repeating affirmations such as “I am healthy. I am strong. I am nurtured” will help you to meditate effectively on your healing experience.
11. How to Meditate On Money
Meditation can be used to attract wealth into your life with the help of techniques such as manifestation and the law of attraction. The most effective meditation technique to attract money into your life is by focusing you attention on abundance and welcoming it with open arms. Begin your meditation in a comfortable seated position and start with a focus on your breath. Next, move your focus from your breath to repeating and accepting the affirmation: “I welcome pure abundance into my life”. Visualize your life with an abundance of wealth and focus on the positive aspects it will bring to your life. Use this acceptance of pure abundance to banish any fear of success.
12. How to Meditate On Your Heart Chakra
The heart chakra is also known as Anahata and is known to hold the center of love, empathy and compassion. It is the chakra of positive energy and works by connecting the lower chakras in your body to the higher ones. You can meditate to open up your heart chakra by finding a comfortable seated position and spreading your collar bones as if to open wide the space that holds your heart. Bring one hand to your heart and the other to your belly and focus all your attention on your heart. Notice the way that your chest rises and falls with each breath. By opening our hearts, we allow for love and positive energy to enter.
13. How to Meditate On Words
Meditation is often associated with religion. Meditating on the word of god can play an important role in faith and work to strengthen the relationship between the meditator and their religious values. Begin your meditation by allowing yourself some time to define what meditation means to you in a religious context. To help with focusing you attention, start your meditations by focusing on a specific bible verse of paragraph. Visualize what these words mean to you and the way they make you feel. You may also like to center your meditation on a certain topic such as forgiveness. Use this time to connect with your higher self and focus on better understanding your religious values.
14. How to Meditate On Relationship
Meditation can have a positive impact on relationships in your life by helping shine a positive light on your perspective. In particular, meditating on gratitude is beneficial in helping you to move past negative aspects clouding your relationships. Begin your meditation in a comfortable position and focus your attention to your breath. Kick off the gratitude practice by noticing the automation of your breath – be grateful for your healthy, breathing lungs. Now move this gratitude towards your relationship and notice all the positive energy that this person brings to your life. Understand that although relationships are not always smooth sailing, each relationship has a positive aspect to it. Sometimes their presence is positive in nature, or sometimes their presence brings a positive lesson into your life.
15. How to Meditate On Angel Numbers
Numbers surround us daily and can be easily looked past. However, some numbers hold special significance and have associated meanings. Angel numbers come in triplets and hold particular spiritual significance. Each angel sequence has a particular meaning. For example, 111 means the angels are blessing your goals, 222 foster strong, healthy relationships and 333 represents answered prayers. To meditate on angel numbers, bring your focus to the numbers you notice standing out to you and visualize them. Open your mind and allow thoughts to flow freely while gently encouraging focus back to the angel number. Acknowledge thoughts as they pass and understand the possibility for deeper meaning.
16. How to Meditate On Inner Light and Sound
The inner light and sound is an integral part of life. It involves a form of meditation that focuses on connecting our awareness with light and sound in order to activate the crown chakra (located at the top of your head – responsible for a connection to spirit and universe). Meditation with your inner light and sound is practical and your insights and realizations should be coherent and clear. Start your meditations by focusing on sound energy by placing your energy on stillness and peace. Then move onto light energy. Light energy can come in many colors or patterns. The key is to not put energy into meditating on light energy, but to enter a state that light energy can meditate on you.
17. How to Meditate On Nothing
Meditating on nothing is a form of meditation that is extremely freeing, relaxing and therapeutic to many. In this form of meditation, rather than focusing our energy onto a specific thought, subject or sensation – we simply do nothing. Begin by mentally scanning your body from top to bottom and relaxing each muscle as your pass it by. Once you have entered a state of relaxation, the meditation on nothingness can begin. This form of meditation requires us to allow our thoughts to wander limitlessly and intentionally remove our focus from any particular one thing. During this meditation, simply acknowledge the thoughts that pass by your mind and maintain deep breathing.
18. How to Meditate On a Subject
Meditating on a particular subject is an effective way to focus our energy entirely and remove all distractions that may influence our perception. There are two methods that are particularly effective in meditating on a specific subject. The first method is visualization. Use the power of your imagination to visualize all aspects of the subject and allow yourself to feel all sensations that are associated with it. The second method is mantra meditation. This meditation involves repeating a subject specific mantra during your meditation in order to maintain focus of energy. Simply enter your meditation in a comfortable position as normal and focus your energy on your breath before moving it to the repetition of the chosen mantra.
19. How to Meditate On Emptiness
Realizing emptiness means realizing the meaning of emptiness. In the context of meditation, emptiness does not mean non-existence, nothingness or sadness. It instead means being empty of ego, empty of direction or empty of stress. In this way, it can also be looked at as a form of ‘fullness’. When meditating on emptiness, ensure to be careful with the way in which you define it. Be mindful in the ways that the meaning of emptiness can have positive or negative connotations and work towards understanding a personal definition of the word before exploring it further.
20. How to Meditate On an Idea
Meditating on an idea is an incredible way to expand your visions and further explore you goals and inspirations. Begin your meditation in a comfortable seated of laying position and focuses your energy on your breath. Notice the way your body moves with each inhale and exhale and relax your muscles as you notice them. Now move your energy to a reflection of your past week, a reflection of your idea and a visualization of a week after this idea has been actioned. Acknowledge any positive changes that your idea is responsible for and allow your thoughts to flow naturally. This meditation will result in an expansion of your idea and further mindfulness regarding the consequences it will have on your life.
21. How to Meditate On Compassion
Meditating to cultivate compassion helps to improve empathy, understanding for those less fortunate and encourage the practice of gratitude in your day to day life. Begin your meditation in a comfortable seated of laying position and focuses your energy on your breath. Notice the way your body moves with each inhale and exhale and relax your muscles as you notice them. Now move your thoughts to a limitless reflection on your life. Acknowledge each positive thought as they come and challenge each ‘struggle’ or negative thought by attempting to find a positive aspect to them. Visualize one major factor in your life that is a blessing (e.g. food, money, shelter) and visualize your life without this luxury. Acknowledge the fact that others live without this blessing and push yourself to show compassion to all those less fortunate than you.
22. How to Meditate On Positive Thoughts
Meditating on positive thoughts is extremely beneficial for mindfulness, compassion, gratitude and a general happy outlook on life. This shift in mindset is associated with incredible benefits such as a boost in motivation, better physical health and a reduction in anxiety and depressive thoughts. Begin your meditation in a comfortable seated of laying position and focuses your energy on your breath. Allow your mind to list a few factors of your life that bring you stress or sadness. Focus all your energy on challenging these struggles by seeking a positive light on each. Repeat the affirmation: “I am healthy. I am happy. Each day is a blessing and life is beautiful”.
23. How to Meditate On Your Intuition
Meditating on your intuition can help in seeking clarity and truth. With busy lives come busy minds which make it difficult for us to connect with our higher selves and listen to our inner tuition undisturbed. Begin your meditation in a comfortable position that allows for full focus and spend a few minutes concentrating on the sensations of your breath as it comes in and out of your nostrils. Ground yourself by acknowledging that everything that has happened in our lives is stored in our body. In order to gain insight into our intuition, we need to explore our own body and uncover each layer. We can do this by meditating on each tiny detail of our body and allowing ourselves to feel all sensations on the deepest level.
24. How to Meditate On Your Goals
Meditating on goals that you want to achieve in life is often referred to as manifestation. Manifestation is the process of bringing something tangible into your life via attraction, belief and a positive attitude. In order to meditate on something you want, begin by sitting or lying in a comfortable position in a quiet setting and allowing yourself to relax completely. Start by focusing on your breathing and bringing your attention to all sensations surrounding you. Next open your mindset by repeating the affirmation: “My heart is open. I do good, I am good, and I am loved” in your head. Now bring this focus towards a particular goal in which you wish to manifest and envision your life once this goal is achieved.
25. How to Meditate On Career
Meditation can boost your career by reducing anxiety, helping you to visualize your goals and increasing mindfulness in your work. The Three M’s is one method of increasing productivity while decreasing stress. It involves mindfulness, meditation and manifestation. Mindfulness involves encouraging yourself to acknowledge all emotions and break them down in order to understand the effect of life on your mind and body. Use these learning to heal yourself and boost productivity. Meditation can assist in mindfulness by being a tool for mental stillness. Manifestation is the strong belief of something tangible entering your life. For your career, this may be a pay rise or promotion.
26. How to Meditate On Depression
Meditation is effective in combating feelings of depression by altering your view on negative thinking. Depression is different for everyone, but for most it involves many dark thoughts and emotions of loneliness, helplessness and anger. Meditation can assist you in acknowledging these feelings and allowing yourself to notice, accept and let them go. In this way, meditation can help you manage depressive thoughts more effectively and develop the skills required to flip a negative thought to a positive one. This can be done by entering a relaxed state and allowing your thoughts to run freely. When you notice a negative thought cross your mind such as “They’re going to leave me” – acknowledge it, accept that you feel it, understand that it is not the only option and identify the positive alternative which is “They are going to stay with me and support me”.
27. How to Meditate On Relaxation
Meditation is an incredible effective way to calm your mind and body, reduce anxiety and clear clouded thoughts. There are many ways to meditate with the goal of relaxing yourself – here is one example. Start your meditation by locating a quiet space with no distractions. Allow yourself to relax into a comfortable seated or laying position and begin by noticing the details of your breath. Start at the base of your body and acknowledge the presence of the earth below you. Notice how it supports you entirely. Move through a scan of your body, relaxing each muscle as you notice it and allowing yourself to ‘fall’ through the floor. Stay in this position for a few minutes, breathing deeply and encouraging your thoughts to flow freely.
28. How to Meditate On Your Future
Meditation is a fantastic tool for visualizing your goals and manifesting your future. These tools can help you to shift your mindset and encourage positive energy into your life. Start your meditation by focusing on your breathing and bringing your attention to all sensations surrounding you. Take some time to ponder your current life situation and pinpoint some aspects you would like to change in the future. Now take the time to visualize these changes been put into action. Consider the positive outcomes that are associated with the positive changes. Allow your energy to be put into understanding which tasks can be actioned in your life in order to make these goals a reality in your future.