Do you need to buy from a Meditation Supply?

Is there a meditation supply kit to help you meditate? Do you need special equipment, clothes, tapes or CD’s?

When you learn to meditate, you want to learn as fast as possible. You, like me, want to get all the benefits meditation has to offer, in the fastest time possible. You also want the maximum gains. So is there equipment you need that will help your meditation experience?

Meditation Equipment

When you meditate, the best position to be in is the one you find most comfortable. Sitting in a chair is the most common, so all you need is a chair. Which most of you will have at home.

If you lie down to meditate, a mediation mat can be used. Or just lie on the floor, if it is comfortable, or the couch or your bed. But a mediation mat can be used.

What is a meditation mat?

A thick padded mat, which cushions your body while you meditate. You can buy specific meditation mats, but all you need is the mat from a deck chair or something similar. You can sit or lie on them.

Sitting or lying down can be more comfortable on a meditation mat. Do you need to purchase a specific mat? You decide.

The same for a meditation pillow or meditation bench. The meditation pillow is not for resting your head on, but for sitting on. The meditation bench is the same, just for sitting. Sitting in a chair using a cushion to support your back if you need, is easiest and best.

Meditation Clothes

Most people think you need to wear special meditation clothes to meditate in. This is true!

Mediation clothes should be loose and comfortable. That is all, nothing else.

Do you need to purchase flowing robes, floral pants or sandals from a meditation supply? No. Just comfortable and easy to wear clothes.

I meditate in track pants and a tee shirt. A sweatshirt if it is colder. Meditating in a suit or tight clothes can become uncomfortable and hard to relax.

If you are meditating in the lotus position, then tight clothes will make it impossible to do.

Most of you will and should meditate just sitting in a chair. Normal comfortable clothes are good, no meditation clothes necessary.

Meditation Book, Tapes and CD’s

As you want to meditate like a Zen or Buddhist monk immediately. A common mistake people make is to buy a meditation book from a 'new age' meditation supply or local book store.

You read it cover to cover, only to find it full of jargon, exercises and views that are impossible to follow.

A meditation book for beginners is easy and should read as follows:

Sit down … relax and close your eyes … breathe in and out … relax and watch as your mind settles … observe your calm and quiet mind.

There you go, all the information you need, a simple meditation book in a couple of sentences. A bit brief I know, there are techniques you can do to help the mind settle, to relax your body and to add to your meditation to deepen and improve the experience.

A meditation book can give you this, but it can be lost in all the extra detail you don’t need. There are simple to follow meditation books out there, which just give you the important details without the jargon.

SO do you need to rush out to a meditation supply store to buy a book? No.

Learning to meditate from a book is hard, a meditation tape or CD is a lot easier.

They require you to sit, relax and listen. The meditation tape or CD will guide you through the techniques to teach you to meditate.

A meditation tape or CD will take you step by step through the technique. There are many now with new technology, which plays music or sound waves to induce a meditative state.

The Silva technique and Holosync from Centerpoint are the two most known and beneficial methods for meditation.

Silva is a guided meditation which eventually you learn to do without the tape or CD. It teaches you many techniques through their meditation tape and CD series.

Centerpoint is a more passive experience, all you do is listen to the meditation tape or CD, relax and let the tape/CD do the work. It places you in the meditative state; you do always need the tapes as it doesn’t actually teach you to meditate.

Both are great and I use both. At different times I want to just sit back and listen to a meditation tape passively. I also use Silva and use those techniques regularly with and without the CD.

With a CD meditation has expanded as the sound quality is better, you are also able to skip to the desired tracks without having to rewind or forward on a tape. So the convenience of a CD makes meditating easier.

On to meditating…

So get started, learn to meditate and use whichever technique you wish. Buying a mat, pillow, special clothes from a Mediation Supply is not necessary.

Just sit back, relax and meditate. A meditation tape or CD can help and is in my opinion a great way to start. As for a mediation book, use them to read the history or background on meditation, they do tend to be hard to follow when you just want to learn to meditate … get a mediation tape or CD meditation is easier that way.

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