Distraction is the biggest problem most people have when it comes to meditation. You can only be in the meditative state if you have focused on your object of meditation.

However, distractions are unavoidable. It can certainly be quite a challenge to meditate if you live with your family, especially when you have your children.

Distractions may be external, meaning they come from your environment. However, they can be internal, too, and they come in the form of worries and stray thoughts.

Ways to Deal with External Distractions

External distractions are actually easier to deal with than internal distractions. All you need to do is make your environment conducive to meditation. Here are ways of dealing with external distractions: Continue reading →

Primordial sound meditation is a healing practice taught by Deepak Chopra. Its primary goal is to let a person enter a calm and deep meditative state to achieve two things: release stress and rediscover who we really are.

Primordial sounds are elemental sounds of nature and they are supposed to help us reconnect to our spirit.

When we know and understand who we are, we are able to understand other people more. When we use these sounds as mantras, we enter into a field of expanded awareness and away from the turbulence of our day-to-day lives. By focusing on the sounds, you are able to stop the chatter in your head.

Unlike Vedic meditation where your teacher assigns a mantra, in primordial sound meditation the mantra is assigned based on the time, date and place of your birth. The reason behind this is that when you were born, there is a specific vibration that exists in the universe. These vibrations were recorded by sages and seers several centuries ago. Continue reading →