Meditation works easier than you think

Meditative thinking is still. Not the stillness of a quiet evening. It is the stillness when the thoughts completely stop with all their images, their work, and their imaginations. Meditation means letting go, sitting still, breathing, letting go, relaxing, going, and letting it happen. Try it! Meditating is easier than autogenic training. Religion is not necessarily a requirement when meditating. Nevertheless, it is important to open up and keep both feet firmly on the ground.

A simple guide to meditating

• When meditating, I sit down in a normal chair.
• I put both feet firmly on the floor.
• The back is straight, the head too as if a cord were pulling it up a little at the crown.
  At first, I fix my eyes on a point in space. It can also be candlelight, which I look at for a while to calm down.
• Then I usually close my eyes and let my weight sink completely into the chair without buckling in the back.
• From that moment on I only pay attention to my breathing. How the breath comes and my torso and stomach expand and how the breath goes again and I let the air flow out until the process repeats itself automatically.
• With each breath, I breathe in calm and peace, and on the exhale I release what I want to get rid of.
• When thoughts come, I allow them but don’t hold onto them.
• I then slowly relax all parts of my body.

• Start at the head and then slowly work your way down to your legs.
• I also don’t forget small details like relaxing the tongue and jaw.
• When I’m completely relaxed and not disturbed by external sources of noise, I enter a state of relaxation that is indescribably beautiful.
• Inner images come to light, which appears in the form of colors and states and can no longer be grasped mentally.