Don’t get caught up in the trap of expectation when learning meditation. The practice is a journey that unfolds like a Rose. Be open for new experiences. Anytime that you sit still, relax your body, breathe deeply and allow your thoughts to drift by without engaging them, you are meditating — and it counts.

Learning to meditate can be preparation for learning the skills of concentration, contemplation and creative visualization.

Meditation is a process. It is the way to begin to train your self conscious mind to stop chatting and allow silence to begin to enter your consciousness. It is through cultivating silence that our subconscious mind begins to reveal its inner secrets, such as long last memories or flashes into the future. This takes practice.

I have always loved silence. I didn’t have siblings and I was raised by my grandparents, who used to scream and yell and fight and curse. So silence became an escape from the chaos in my every day existence. I went to sleep by the fireplace each night and that beauty and peace led me to have spiritual experiences. Those experiences found me in the silence.

Explore! Experiment! Experience!