Thread: does meditating become fun???

I started with walking meditation because I found sitting meditation to be too difficult, initially. Even now, for me to do a sitting meditation for longer than 15 minutes requires me to be in a group.

I decided I didn't want to turn you off of meditation or make you think of it as work (it is, after all, the one time of day where we do not work) so I found some techniques that might me more interesting:

Fun Meditation Techniques for Finding Inner Peace | Lifescript.com

Bubbles Meditation
This is a wonderful meditation technique and visualization exercise that is quick, easy and fun to do:
Find a comfortable, quiet place.
Sit either on a chair with your feet flat on the floor and palms resting upward, on top of your thighs.
Close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing.
Take five deep breaths, feeling yourself centering in calmness.
In your mind’s eye, visualize yourself blowing golden bubbles of light, each time you exhale.
These are bubbles of joy and each time you reach out an pop one, giggle.
Pop as many as you can, imagining glowing streams of joy flowing through your finger and into your heart chakra and bringing you inner peace.
As you feel your heart chakra opening, you may find yourself laughing uncontrollably, and that’s wonderful.
When you are ready, slowly come back into the room and open your eyes

Gratitude
The realization of joy in our lives often comes from discovering and practicing daily gratitude. When you get up in the morning, take about ten minutes to write down everything you are grateful for in that moment. When you have completed your list, read it over by starting it with the phrase “I am truly grateful for…” and go down the list. Do the same thing and meditate on your list for 10 minutes before you go to bed. You’ll be amazed at how wonderful your life will become, and how your hardships will lessen.

I personally like that one, but you don't even really need to do a list, in my opinion. Every moment I can, I try to use gratitude like a muscle to enrich my experiences.

I also found this website, which I think is helpful

8 Ways to Make Meditation Easy and Fun | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In

One technique highlighted is one that helped me a lot:

3. Use the Alarm Clock Meditation.

If 100 breaths isn’t going to cut it for you, set a timer for 5 minutes. Then meditate until the timer goes off. This way, you don’t have to wonder about how long it’s been, or how much longer you should meditate for. It’s like meditation on cruise-drive.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

I started with walking meditation because I found sitting meditation to be too difficult, initially. Even now, for me to do a sitting meditation for longer than 15 minutes requires me to be in a group.

I decided I didn't want to turn you off of meditation or make you think of it as work (it is, after all, the one time of day where we do not work) so I found some techniques that might me more interesting:

Fun Meditation Techniques for Finding Inner Peace | Lifescript.com





I personally like that one, but you don't even really need to do a list, in my opinion. Every moment I can, I try to use gratitude like a muscle to enrich my experiences.

I also found this website, which I think is helpful

8 Ways to Make Meditation Easy and Fun | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In

One technique highlighted is one that helped me a lot:

thank you,
these seem great i will give them a try.

if you like these types of things then i would recomend trying something i learned a while ago, but i felt it was more self hypnosis than meditation.

relax your body fully,
relax and calm your mind by focusing on your breathing,
visualize 10 steps going down to beutiful water,
relax even more with each step, slowly walk down each step feeling each step as ou go, and counting the numbers starting at 10.
(you have probably heard of this up to here but this next part is the fun part that you probably dont know),
once you get to the bottom continue walking into the warm, relaxing, numbing water, feel it go higher up your bod with each step.
keep walking till you are fully under water.

when i did this my body was numb, warm, relaxed nd buzzing and i could hear a buzzing in my ears.