1. Concentration Meditation

Focus: Train your mind to concentrate on a single object, such as your breath, thoughts, or a specific word.

• Benefits: Strengthening your focus improves mental clarity, decision-making, and physical well-being. It helps in noticing and disentangling from distracting thoughts, enhancing your ability to stay present.
• Practice: Start by focusing on your breath—inhale and exhale. Celebrate moments when you realize you’ve been distracted as signs of being present. Research shows that even imperfect attempts at meditation can reduce cortisol levels and blood pressure.
• Example: Listen to the five-minute meditation on the homepage for a practical example.

2. Natural Awareness Meditation

Focus: Strengthen your awareness of simply being alive in the present moment.

• Benefits: Enhances your experience of aliveness beyond the noise of thoughts and emotions. Helps in finding peace that is independent of external circumstances.
• Practice: Embrace a sense of peace by just breathing and being. Learn to connect with your innate sense of well-being that is often obscured by daily worries and emotions. Practice calling upon this bare awareness in any situation to find deeper peace.

3. Positive Imagery Meditation

Focus: Cultivate positive mental states, such as loving-kindness and compassion, through visualization techniques.

• Benefits: Engaging in positive imagery can naturally increase these states in your everyday life. It helps in visualizing successful outcomes and experiencing positive emotions more frequently.
• Practice: Use guided meditations to aid in this practice. Balance positive imagery with any conflicting thoughts by reflecting on them and returning to the positive visualization. Explore the guided meditations in the "Daily Dose Meditations" for practical applications.