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Tired of feeling tired? Ready to move forward from limiting thoughts, feelings and unhealthy actions? Looking for a way to break free from the ordinary and enter the realm of the divine? Ralph Miller shares with you simple, yet powerful techniques to begin your practice of meditation in this 5-day Meditation Course.

Learning to meditate in 5 days doesn’t end there–it’s really just the beginning. These techniques aren’t just for beginners, so don’t be fooled by their seemingly simple nature. After 7 years of meditation, I still uses them. In fact, they’re more powerful today then when I first learned them.Have you already completed the 5-day course? Please contact me and leave feedback about your experience so I can improve it for others.

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Is Creating a Meditation Space something we do on the outside…or is it something that takes place within us?

Think about it while you look over this guide.



This is a picture of my meditation space. It includes a blanket beneath my meditation cushion, my meditation cushion, a wool asana over the cushion, my meditation shawl, a plant to bring positive energy into the room (and naturally purify the air), and my meditation altar (not shown).

Below are some suggestions to help you create your own meditation space.

Practical Steps to Creating a Meditation Space

• First, there is no right or wrong way to create a meditation space. The key is: experiment. If it works for you, continue it. If it detracts from your meditation, change it.• Establish a space that’s separate from other activities. Use your meditation space exclusively for meditation. If this is not possible, close off the portion of the room you use for your meditation with a room divider or free standing screen like those seen below.

• Be a minimalist – a cluttered meditation space is a sign of a cluttered mind. Try to eliminate anything that’s distracting, especially clutter.

• Maintain silence. Try not to speak too much in your meditation room. You may be tempted to blow this off, but I’ve found that maintaining silence has a powerful effect on your meditations.

• Your Meditation Space is Sacred. If some place like a church or cathedral can be holy, your meditation space can too. Invoke blessings for your new meditation space. Create a ritual out of this. I did this by chanting the Guru Gita, an anxient Indian text, with the intention of blessing my new meditation space. Then I asked for blessings from all the saints and sages of my tradition to instill the space with their beneficent energy, to support my meditation practice and help me to experience the Truth.

• Create a meditation altar. An altar is a focal point for all your relics and objects that invoke a sense of longing for God and an experience of the truth. For more on this, see my Guide to Creating a Meditation Altar.

Ultimately, the great meditation masters tell us that there is nothing to be attained–we are already perfect, we just have to realize that Truth. However, until we become firmly established in that Truth, meditation is necessary. By creating a meditation practice, you’re setting a powerful intention that sustains and supports your practice. There is power in ritual, and this should not be ignored. Use this guide to create your personal practice which will strengthen your spiritual practices and deepen your meditation.

Simple Tips for Creating Your Meditation Practice

1. Choose a time that you consistently practice your meditation. Many people espouse that the early morning is the best time to do this. But the best time for you is simply whatever time works the best. Try to set it up so you’re not likely to be interrupted during this time. Shut off your phones and close yourself away from the world, even if it’s just for 5 minutes.

2. Choose a quiet space. It’s difficult enough to concentrate; removing all the other distractions, like noises, is an essential element when you’re first building your practice. Eventually, you’ll be able include disturbance like lawn mowers and barking dogs into your practice. But for starters, keep it simple, keep it quiet.

3. Be consistent in your practice. I like this one, because I was never good at it. For instance, I was great at cramming for tests. I’d be up the night before, studying for hours–and I’d ace the test. Unfortunately, meditation isn’t like that. You’ll receive little or no benefit from meditating once a week for a long stretch of time. You’re better off practicing just 5 minutes every day, rather than trying to do a cram session. It just doesn’t work.

4. Whatever happens when you sit to meditate is meditation. This one gets a lot of people, because they have a preconceived notion of what meditation is and isn’t. However, my teacher has always taught that whatever happens when you sit with the intention to meditate, is meditation. So whether or not you perceive something beneficial happening or not, trust that you are making progress. Some of my greatest revelations have come immediately following a period of time when I ‘thought’ nothing was happening. Then suddenly, the skies part and you’re hit with a profound realization or ecstatic experience.

5. Be aware of resistance. The times you don’t want to meditate are the most important times to meditate. With this in mind, notice when you are resistant to meditation, and make a real effort to go and just sit. You don’t have to worry about how well you do. You might just sit feeling resistant, or angry or irritated. That’s really okay. Just the fact that you sat for meditation strengthens your commitment and helps you create a consistent meditation practice.

6. Invoke the Saints and Sages of Your Tradition. Many great and powerful Knowers of the Truth have come before us. Their love and compassion for us can still be felt today. Great beings have shared their teachings and those teachings are alive in the many great religions of the world. Invoke the support of your spiritual teachers, and the saints and men and women of God in your tradition. Their support can be a beacon of light in both good times and bad.

7. Establish a meditation room or area. Having a sacred space where meditation is the only thing you do can really help in creating a meditation practice. The energy of your meditation remains in your meditation room or area, undisturbed, and makes it easier to go into meditation each time you enter that sacred space. My meditation teacher has a room where he meditated and the room is left very dark and no one is allowed to speak. Even though he is no longer in his body, when people enter the room, they find it very easy to fall into a deep state of meditation.

For more information on creating a meditation space, click here.

8. Create a meditation altar. Don’t confuse this with idol worship. I’m sure if you have kids, or know someone with kids, and you’ve been in their room, you’ve seen pictures hanging on the wall of Michael Jordan or Britney Spears. Those pictures aren’t idols, they just represent an ideal. In the same way, you can create a meditation altar that contains symbols of your devotion to God and your practice of meditation. You might place a picture of a holy person, a candle, the Bible, the Qur’an, a rosary, the Shiva lingam, or any other object that has spiritual value to you on your altar, to remind you of what it is you value, and what it is you are aspiring toward.

For more information on creating a meditation altar, click here.

9. Wear special meditation clothing or accessories. Practitioners of Chi Kung believe that wearing the same clothing for each session, without washing the clothing, is very important. Other meditators swear that sitting on a sheep’s wool asana is beneficial. I have a special meditation shawl that I wrap myself in when I meditate and a rudraksha mala I wear on certain occasions. All of these things can provide a powerful focus for you to easily go into meditation. My personal belief is that these symbols have as much power as we lend to them. So if you find it easier to meditate if you’re wearing the same clothes every time, why not do it? Regardless of whether it’s really building up the meditation energy in those clothes or not, it really doesn’t matter. If it helps, do it.

10. Get comfortable. If you can’t sit in full lotus for more than 10 seconds without your legs cramping, then don’t do it. I known a meditation teacher who confessed that sitting cross-legged on the floor really messes with her knees, so she invested in a Lazy Boy recliner and meditates in it…complete with several fluffy cushions and a nice padded headrest. Hey, whatever works to help you in creating a meditation practice, right? The point is, if you’re going to be meditating for more than a few minutes, you might as well be comfy…so invest in a meditation cushion or chair. Or just get yourself a Lazy Boy recliner.

I hope this gives you some very clear and specific tips for creating a meditation practice.I’d love to hear from you and about what’s helped you in creating your meditation practice.  Contact me.

Meditation can be used as a form of alternative medicine. It is considered mind-body medicine and is prescribed by doctors for many various concerns, which according to the including National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine include

• Anxiety
• Pain
• Depression
• Mood and self-esteem problems
• Stress
• Insomnia
• Physical or emotional symptoms that may be associated with chronic illnesses and their treatment, such as:
  • Cardiovascular (heart) disease
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Cancer

Meditation is the conscious process of turning our attention inward. Ordinarily, our mind is focused on external objects– the way that car looks…the way those cookies smell…the way this cashmere feels. Everyone pays attention to what’s happening outside, but very few people pay attention to what’s happening within them. Because of this, we find ourselves attributing our pleasure, and pain to the things around us. Our happiness becomes dependent on external circumstances. Through meditation, we begin to withdraw our awareness from our sense perceptions and focus on what’s happening within us. And this yields many benefits.

Meditation is Concentration

How often does your mind wander throughout the day? How often do you catch yourself thinking about something and not knowing how you arrived at that thought? Do you ever have negative thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere? You’re not alone…

So many of us have these type of experiences throughout our day. Our minds are constantly thinking. We see a picture of a sail boat and it reminds us of some past sailing trip we took, or our desire to buy a sail boat, or our fear of water. Our mind interprets and analyzes everything we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. The mind amazing! And yet, many of us don’t understand how to control our thoughts and feelings. Consequently, we may experience all kinds of suffering as a result of our mind. But meditation teaches us how to hone the minds power into single, one-pointed focus. By focusing our mind on a single thing–whether it be your breathing, the flame of a candle, or a picture of a deity–we learn how to control the mind, and we experience many benefits as a result.

Benefits of Meditation

Through meditation, we begin a process of learning how to focus our attention when and where we want it to go. Previous to beginning my meditation practice, I would often get upset about the things people would say to me. I would then obsess about it for days, analyzing the many meanings and subtle nuances of what they said to me, and running through the my responses to an imaginary situation that had my heart racing, teeth clenched and knuckles white.

When we do this, we begin to recognize that happiness is not dependent on external circumstances, but on the state and quality of our mind.

There are many different types of meditation and various techniques.

Listen to what my friend Rolland says:

“I always thought meditation was something that took you off to another world. After speaking with Ralph, I came to understand that it’s something I’ve always known how to do. I do it every day when I garden. Just by shifting my understanding to a conscious process, I began to understand things that I’d always known to be true…and that was very empowering!”