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It's Metaphysical Monday! Today we will be offering tips to improve your meditation practice.
這是形而上學的星期一！今天，我們將提供一些技巧來改善你的冥想練習。

It seems that very few people seem confident with their meditation practice. If I ask people if they meditate, they say they don't meditate as much as they should, or they try but they don't know if they’re doing it or they think they should be better at it. Who knew there was so much pressure about meditation!
似乎很少有人對他們的冥想練習有信心。如果我問人們平常是否會打坐，他們會說他們打坐的次數沒有達到應有的程度，或者他們嘗試了但不知道自己是否在打坐，或者他們認為自己應該做得更好。誰知道打坐壓力這麼大！

Your meditation practice does not need to be complicated. It can be as simple as stilling yourself and having an intention to connect. You can follow your breath, or not. You can sit a certain way, or not. You can aim for stillness, or not. (Sidenote：I’ve never been able to achieve nothingness. My most successful meditations have come from allowing my brain to go where it wants to go with a broad intention of what I would like to do during that meditation). All that really matters is that you find a space that is comfortable for you, that relaxes you, and allows you to do whatever your intention is.
你的冥想練習不需要很複雜。你可以簡單的讓自己平靜下來保持連接的意圖就好。你可以觀呼吸，也可以不這麼做。你可以盤腿而坐，也可以不盤腿。你可以以靜止為目標，也可以不以靜止為目標。（旁註：我從來沒能實現虛無。我最成功的冥想來自於讓我的大腦去它想去的地方，並在冥想期間帶著我想做的事情的廣泛意圖）。真正重要的是找到一個感到舒適、放鬆並讓你隨心所欲的空間。

Falling asleep during meditation can be an issue for people, particularly with the busy lifestyles we have. If that's the case for you, try to meditate earlier in the day, or meditate sitting up.
在冥想過程中睡著對人們來說可能是個問題，尤其是在我們忙碌的生活中。如果你是這種情況的話，請嘗試在早上進行冥想，或者坐著冥想。

On the topic of sleeping, if you have trouble sleeping, meditate when you wake up in middle of the night. Often it will allow you to go back to sleep, and if it doesn't the act of meditating will equal a couple of hours of sleep so you won't be as tired in the morning.
關於睡眠這個話題，如果你睡不著，半夜起來打坐。它通常會讓你重新入睡，如果不能入睡的話，冥想本身相當於睡了幾個小時，這樣你早上就不會那麼累了。

If you have trouble with seeing things in your meditations, cover your eyes with something. This will immediately tell your brain to stop trying to see with your physical eyes and to switch to seeing with your psychic vision. Covering your eyes with something with a little weight to it like a weighted eye pillow can also help you relax into your meditation easier.
如果你在冥想時觀想有困難，請用東西遮住你的眼睛。這會立即告訴你的大腦停止嘗試用肉眼去看，轉而用你的精神視覺來看。用有一點點重量的東西遮住眼睛，例如加重眼罩，也可以幫助你更輕鬆地進入冥想。

Water is a great amplifier, so if you are wishing to enhance your meditation practice meditating in water (safely!) or near water can be very helpful, as well.
水是一個很好的放大器，所以如果你想加強你的冥想練習，在水中（安全地！）或靠近水的地方冥想也會很有幫助。

It is common when you are meditating to doubt if you are"in there"enough or if it is just your imagination. If you are relaxed you are in good enough! Keep practicing, before you know it you will get bored and then any resistance will ebb away and the good stuff will start happening.
當你在冥想時，懷疑自己"是否處於正確的冥想狀況中"或者"是否只是自己的想像"是很常見的。如果你很放鬆，你就足夠好了！持續練習，在不知不覺中你會感到無聊，然後阻力會消失，好事就會開始發生。

I always tell people to not get too caught up worrying about if something is"only your imagination"because your imagination is the bridge to the psychic part of your brain. If you immediately dismiss things as being your imagination you are cutting yourself off before you get where you want to go! If you just let your experiences unfold without judgment, what will happen is one day you will be completely surprised by something that happens and at that point you will know it's not your imagination, because your imagination doesn't have the ability to surprise you but a spiritual experience absolutely can.
我總是告訴人們不要太擔心某事是否"只是你的想像"，因為你的想像力是通往大腦心理部分的橋樑。如果你立即將事物視為你的想像而放棄，那麼你在到達想去的地方之前就切斷了自己！如果你只是讓你的想像力不加評判地展開，那麼有一天你會對發生的事情感到驚訝，那時你會知道這不是你的想像，因為你的想像沒有能力讓你感到驚訝但是精神體驗絕對可以。

So be light with your meditation practice. Experiment. Make it enjoyable and make your own. Trust the unfoldment of it. No matter what happens during it, the health benefits are vast so it is never ever wasted time. If you keep an open mind before you know it, it will grow and evolve into something absolutely wonderful and perfect for you.
所以你的冥想練習要輕鬆。去實驗。讓它變得愉快並成為你自己的。相信它的展開。無論在此期間發生什麼，對健康的好處都是巨大的，因此永遠不會浪費時間。如果你保持開放的心態，它就會成長並演變成對你來說絕對美妙和完美的事物。

作者：Shelley Young
原文：https://trinityesoterics.com/daily-message
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