Learning to do meditation, and doing it every day is very important for your overall physical health and more importantly, your spiritual growth. As with anything worth trying to achieve, it takes certain amount of dedication to your goal to realize it. However, when it comes to learning to meditate for spiritual enlightenment, there is a complex balance that needs to be maintained. Too much effort pushes away Enlightenment. And trying too hard when you meditate leaves you frustrated. Gurus and they’re students have wrestled with these issues for ages. Fortunately there is a way to live in balance with both.

Some spiritual teachings base their whole dogma around their meditation technique. They have their students sitting on a cushion for hours at a time day in and day out. Posture and technique are the most important thing to them. Meditating this way is fine for a while but like the Buddha said; everything in moderation. So these students need to balance the hours and hours they spend in meditation with some physical tasks that will ground them.

At the other end of the devotional spectrum is TM (Transcendental Meditation). TM is the meditation for the casual seeker. 20 minutes twice a day is their prescription for happiness. Of course if TM is done for extended periods of time (6-8 hours a day) the seeker can experience very powerful results.

So many meditation techniques and so little time to do them. In our modern world the average spiritual seeker has to balance work, school, kids, significant other, shopping, errands, etc. with the desire to raise their consciousness to the level of Self-awareness or higher. What’s a person to do?

Soon, you will be exploring the antique and modern techniques of meditation and you will be able to make an educated decision on which one is best for you.