The Twelve Principles of Yoga Meditation

1. Choose a special place to practice, which will help you find peace and make it easier to enter yoga meditation.

2。Choose a fixed time-early morning and evening are ideal.

3。Use the same time and place to relax and calm the spirit faster.

4。After sitting down, keep your back, neck and head straight on the same line, facing north or east.

5。During meditation, keep your body warm (you can wrap a blanket around your body when it's cold) and guide your consciousness to remain calm.

6。Let your breathing occur regularly-take a deep breath for 5 minutes first, and then let your breathing calm down.

7。Establish a rhythmic breathing structure-inhale for 3 cycles, then exhale for 3 seconds.

8。When your consciousness begins to wander, don't pay too much attention and don't force yourself to settle down.

9。After you calm down, let your consciousness stay on a fixed target, which can be between your eyebrows or your heart.

10。Use the meditation technique of your choice to enter meditation.

11。Don't force or let the free state continue to exist naturally until a very pure state of meditation arrives.

12。After a period of practice, the wandering state of mind will slowly change and eventually enter pure samadhi (the state of consciousness).

Before entering the formal meditation stage, you should also note the following points: Choose a posture where you feel comfortable and relaxed to practice, if possible, use a lotus sitting posture; but if you cannot do this posture, you can choose simple sitting to practice. Correct and stable sitting posture is the key to successful meditation, because unstable posture can make thoughts and consciousness unstable.

Try not to eat before meditation, as this will affect your concentration.

Try to do meditation once a day at the beginning, but you can increase it to twice a day later. Slowly increase the meditation time from 5 minutes to 20 minutes or more, but don't force yourself to sit still for long periods of time.

If you feel uncomfortable practicing one meditation method several times, you can give up this method and choose another method that is more suitable for you.

Don't rush for success and don't expect to achieve the expected results in a short period of time. (Editor in charge: Zhao Ruilan)