Meditation for Beginners: The 13 Most Popular Questions

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Main threads of the conversation

• 00:15#1: Can you meditate lying down?
• 03:32#2: How long should you meditate each day?
• 06:50#3: Images appear during meditation—what does that mean?
• 10:51#4: How is meditation different from simply relaxing?
• 13:12#5: How do you measure your progress in meditation?
• 15:28#6: Can you meditate with music?
• 22:02#7: What time of day is best for meditation, and how often should you meditate?
• 23:41#8: How do you calm your mind and switch off the stream of thoughts during meditation?
• 28:59#9: How do you build a regular meditation habit and keep from giving up?
• 31:29#10: What results does meditation bring, and how soon will I feel them?
• 33:25#11: Are there any contraindications? Can meditation be harmful?
• 35:06#12: Unusual states and crises during meditation
• 36:49#13: Does meditation conflict with religion?

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• 05:42

  Because people aren't comparable as spiritual beings, someone might spend sixty years in meditation to feel what another person feels every thirty minutes of their life without meditating.

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• 10:08

  It's like asking me this: imagine we downloaded five million SKUs from Amazon and dumped them in a pile.

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• 22:45

  Time matters. But for someone who really wants to… All the questions in this lightning round so far have been asked from the material world. From the spiritual world, this kind of question is impossible. Here, look at the aim of the question. This is very important: meditation and the result.

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• 24:53

  I guarantee you, no one in the world will ever want to switch off a true flow of thoughts, because that flow is truth pouring into you.

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• 25:31

  So, yes, a person can enter a genuine meditative state. These states are rarely entered, and you can enter them with the intention of entering meditation.

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• 28:17

  You don't need a posture or time for that. You don't need to set anything aside. Of course, to learn, you have to experience it and go through it. But you don't need to set aside time for it; it works automatically.

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• 34:11

  When things happen to a person and they're told those things happened because their perception expanded, that's a very particular issue.

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• 36:14

  Or you started meditating because you were going to start a family later and needed to arrive at that state.

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• 37:26

  But because meditation is supposedly a term unrelated to Christianity, for instance, people see it as some occult activity that doesn't belong to it.

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• 39:29

  The descriptions indicate which meditations carry an incredible power of connection with yourself, and which you can watch every day. Every day, something entirely new will open up for you.

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