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Is meditation part of your daily routine? What procedure do you follow when you meditate? How had meditation helped you in your daily life? Rita replied. Listen folks,
Try positive daydreaming, if you ever find meditation very difficult or if you' re ever distracted.

Believe it or not, daydream is stepping stone to learning yoga, creative visualization, etc. What' s so good about positive daydreaming? You may ask.

Moreover, daydreams help to heighten all your five senses, heighten your intuitional feelings, pull your mind' s muscles, enhance your health, increase your IQ, etc. Use positive daydreaming with studies. See how it works on your memory bank.

Daydreams too increase your chances of entering trances (if you ever want to enter Alpha, the light kind of trance, that is). Alpha is sometimes difficult to achieve in formal meditation especially with ongoing distractions in the background or in mind, whatever they may be.

Try daydreaming ever BEFORE you do any yoga or meditation. Daydreams help you to achieve calmness of mind.

For exercises,
1. try daydreaming plain colours on your mental screen, making each colour as and strong and vivid as possible. Visualize many nuances of blues, yellows, reds, etc. Make them bright, dark, vivid, dull, and so on.
2. Next think of varied textures in any desired colour: lumps, canvas, cloth, sand, etc.
3. Now try thinking of paints in varied mediums: watercolours, acrylics, etc. Mix your mental colours. For more advanced daydreaming techniques, try thinking of plants, sky, river, lakes, winds, sounds, etc. Priya replied. I think that it is important to learn meditation. We should have meditation classes in school itself for children. Then, when they become adults, it will be better for them only. They will be able to deal with pressures much better. My son’s school has a yoga period every day for half an hour. The kids are very young to understand this but I guess as they reach higher classes meditation can be beneficial for coping with studies. It is a nice habit to impart when they are young and important in the fast lives that we are living Mansi replied. It is a good idea to meditate while doing yoga. The asanas help us to focus on our breathing while we meditate. Then we can clear the mind and become one with the universe. But it all comes with daily practice. Do not expect that from the day you begin you will connect with the cosmos. Do not be very goal oriented. Give yourself time and go easy. All you have to do is relax. Meditating may be difficult at first but you will learn slowly. Watch videos on meditation, listen to audio, read books and you will get better at meditating. Shridhar replied. I have been meditating for almost a year now and I still find it difficult sometimes. The most difficult part is to make sure that your mind is completely free of all thoughts. I often find myself drifting off in the middle of my meditation sessions and then get distracted. I do not know hoe do I handle this. I get very uneasy and some or the other thought just keeps crossing my mind.