{"id":349,"date":"2011-03-06T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2011-04-05T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:35:42","slug":"learn-meditate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/meditations\/learn-meditate\/349\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How to Meditate"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div style=\"float: left; margin: 3px 10px 0px 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-350\" title=\"learn-to-meditate\" src=\"\" alt=\"learn how to meditate\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/learn-to-meditate.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is important to learn to meditate as it is an experience of  creating a positive and peaceful state of mind. When you practice meditating  regularly, you will gain a wonderful sense of yourself. There are many methods  of meditation and each method has a structure that should be followed. This is  why you need to learn how to meditate and know the benefits of meditations while  you control your mind for a better life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why learn to Meditate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If&nbsp;you train in meditation, your mind will gradually become more and  more peaceful, and&nbsp;you will experience a purer and purer form of happiness. Not  only that, you will also create an&nbsp;inner space and clarity that enables you to  control your thoughts. As you continue to meditate and master meditation, you  will gradually develop a mental equilibrium; a balanced mind that is happy all  the time, rather than an unbalanced mind that oscillates between the extremes of  excitement and frustration. Such fluctuations of mood arise because we are too  closely involved in the physical life. If we train in meditation, we will  eventually be able to&nbsp;loosen from our mind the&nbsp;attachments that are the causes  of all our problems and suffering. Now that you know why it is best to learn to  meditate, you need to know of the benefits of meditation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of Meditation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/meditations\/meditation-benefits\/341\/\">benefits of meditation<\/a> are most noticeable when you do it  regularly and consistently rather than sporadically. You will generally enjoy a  better and healthier life and cultivate better relationship with those around you.  Best of all, you will have deeper relationship with God; knowing that when your  allotted time on earth is over, you can be assured that you will enjoy a  better life in the life after death. Meditation makes it so that you do not  fall sick  unnecessarily. It helps in weight management and all the illnesses associated  with weight gain. It also helps you to think intuitively and maintain proper  balance in everything you do; such that people will know that you are a person  of wisdom and respect you for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Control Your Mind for a Better  Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meditation helps you control your mind for a better life between you  and others both at work and in your daily activities. In this way, you will come  to experience a permanent inner peace. After meditation, you may notice that you  feel calmer, happier, and wholesome on days when you have meditated, and notice  a decrease in these feelings when you have not. This is why it is best to strive  to meditate so you can always be in control of your life. Other people and  circumstances will never control you.<\/p>\n<p>You have seen that you must learn how to meditate and few reasons why  you should learn how to meditate. The reasons are mainly due to the benefits  which not only help you to enjoy a healthy life but&nbsp;it also helps you control  your mind for a better life in this world and the world to  come.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to learn to meditate as it is an experience of creating a positive and peaceful state of mind. When you practice meditating regularly, you will gain a wonderful sense of yourself. There are many methods of meditation and each method has a structure that should be followed. This is why you need to learn how to meditate and know the benefits of meditations while you control your mind for a better life. Why learn to Meditate? If&nbsp;you train in meditation, your mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and&nbsp;you will experience a purer and purer form <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeterickson.com\/spiritual-healing-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}