4 Steps to Set-up an Ideal Spot for Meditation Practice
A serene environment is essential for yoga practice, especially because it helps practitioners in building focus. For learned yogis, it is easy to build focus for meditation practice even in the most unlikely surroundings, but an average practitioner needs quiet surrounding to meditate properly.
American-India spiritual author and public speaker Deepak Chopraonce said, “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet, It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” Achieving this state of quiet requires an intense meditation practice, and having an ideal place for your practice can be of great help.
Below given is a four step guide on how you can set-up an ideal spot for your mediation practice, as well as the importance of doing it.
Choose a place that is quiet and easily accessible
You can choose a place within your house premises for your meditation practice. It can also be a place nearby your house, such as a nearby local park that is usually quiet.
Keep the place simple
If you have chosen a place for your meditation practice within your house premises, try to keep the surrounding as simple and clean. It is okay to put a few things around your meditation place if you feel that they inspire you in your meditation practice. Meditation is about finding the voice within; therefore, with time you will be able to draw the motivations from within. Just make sure that place is clean and in due course you will be able to draw inspiration from within.
Find a meditation seat for your spot
Another crucial part in setting up your meditation place is to have an appropriate meditation seat, or ‘asana’ for your practice. It can be a simple pillow, a rolled or folded blanket, or meditation pillow, which are made specifically for the purpose.
Make sure that the place has enough fresh air and natural light
It is important that you make sure that you have access to fresh air and natural light during your meditation practice, since closed and dimly lit spaces can make you feel dizzy instead of fresh and alive. Meditation practice primarily comprises deep breathing; therefore, it is necessary that you have fresh air around you when you practice it. And the presence of natural light also helps in achieving a better mind-body connection.
Irrespective of the place you have learned yoga from, whether at a yoga retreat in Rishikesh or at a local studio, the two most important things about meditation practice are; first, to know what is the core concept behind its practice, which is transformation of a person’s conscience, and second, practicing it in an ideal place that helps us in building an affinity towards the process, as well as enhances its effects.