Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the world to transcendental meditation techniques. You may choose to explore them. Fundamentally, you my ask, why meditate? What does it do? Consider these 12 ways to access deeper parts of yourself;
1) Nurture mindfulness. As you acknowledge how you think, you learn the power of pausing in your life, wherever you are.
2) Strengthen attentiveness. As you become more aware of what you think and feel, you begin to uncover hidden reasons.
3) Promote detachment. As you identify strong emotions, you lower the intensity and minimizes their hold over you.
4) Settle the mind. As you address reasons for feelings, you consciously learn to calm down and respond differently.
5) Lower stress. As you grow more conscious of your mood, you shift and change how you channel your energy flow.
6) Develop greater acceptance. As you attune to the nature and flow of energy, you move to accept your perceived pain or other circumstances as they are.
6) Become less judgmental. As you deliberately accept more, you project less criticism and quash impulses to judge.
7) Cultivate senses. As you quiet the inner judge, you open yourself to senses and abilities you had quietly disregarded.
8) Expand faculties. As you open your senses, you awaken faculties had been dormant alongside.
9) Reframe well-being. As you access senses and faculties you had forgotten, you reframe well-being around those experiences of simplicity, patience and love.
10) Build harmony. As you reframe well-being, you build new levels of harmony in relationships and life perspectives.
11) Extend world peace. As you extend the reach of harmony within and without, you actively contribute to world peace.
12) Access answers. As you contribute to more widespread serenity, you begin to realize that everything you need already exists and comes into the physical from where it is right now.