Concentrative for Less Frustation
Concentrative meditation is focusing your attention on your breathing, an image, or even a sound. You are focusing to clear your mind and allow greater clarity to come through. In its simplest form you will sit quietly and focus your attention on your breathing. Breathing is the basic principle of yoga and meditation. Have you ever noticed how your breathing changes when you get scared or excited? It tends to be faster and more repetitive. However when you’re calm and relaxed you tend to breathe slower.
Your focusing (concentrating) all your attention to that one thing, breathing. Through this you will become more relaxed and calm.
Research has shown that there are four stages you will need to go through:
Stage 1
Follow the breath as it enters and leaves the body and count after the out-breath. After the first breath, count 'two', and so on up to ten and then start again from one.
Stage 2
Count comes before the in-breath.
Stage 3
Stop counting and attend to the sensations of the breath entering and leaving the body.
Stage 4
Focus your attention on the tip of your nose where the breath first comes into contact with the skin.
Concentrative meditation is beneficial because:
Concentrative meditation allows you time to really just focus and take time to yourself. It’s your time to unwind and clear the clutter of your mind so that you can be a more rested and rejuvenated person. Your focus on breathing allows you to focus on only that one thing. Not the stress of your workday, not the traffic jam on the way home, just you. Life stresses can weigh us down and this form of meditation allows us to relieve that weight from our minds. It is meditation in its simplest form.
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