It often takes a little shopping around to discover which technique(s) you are compatible with. The first step in discovering your optimum meditation strategy is to find that technique.

I have found that there is really only a small handful of meditation techniques.

Each meditation technique involves a focus. The focus is on a sensation of the body, the breath, movement, a repeated prayer or mantra, energy, inner light and sound, a concept (God, infinity, love, etc.), a song, one of the five senses or an external object.

The practitioner concentrates on the point of focus. Whenever the mind wanders, the wandering thoughts are given enough space to flow through the practitioner like clouds through the empty sky. Then, the mind is gently brought back to the object of focus.

If you are easily bored or you're a type A personality, then find a something engaging like a mantra to repeat.

There are a few more differences between the meditation techniques of the world other than the object of focus. Two of these are integration strategies and warm up strategies.

An integration strategy is a system for grounding meditation practice into your daily life. Some people chant throughout each day and make offerings before meals. Others enter a consistently meditative state of mind by stretching and consciously breathing in small intervals throughout the day. Muslims pray five times per day as a group. Buddhists watch the flow of thoughts in as detached a manner as possible. These are integration strategies.

A warm up strategy is a method of warming up the mind and body during a meditation routine. In an ideal warm up, one begins with grounding practices involving the physical body and slowly progresses toward exercises for subtler and subtler levels of existence. For example, one may begin with stretching, shaking and self massage and progress toward visualization, forgiveness work, the reading of scripture and then Yoga breathing. Such a pratitioner is moving toward stillness. Spirit is absolute stillness and peace beyond all energy.

If you develop the right meditation strategies, then before long, 
it will not matter how much time you have in your schedule or how much self discipline you think you have. Meditation and Yoga will become so much easier no matter how much time you have to do it.

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