One of the easiest ways of starting to meditate is to buy a pre-recorded meditation tape. Normally, these will have a couple of meditation tracks that are either designed to help you to meditate in general or, maybe, to provide a guided meditation for a specific purpose.
The specific guided meditation topic could be almost anything. Often it is to do with healing your body. The relaxed state that you will achieve when you meditate will help your body to heal itself. Add in the various directions within the guided meditation tape and you'll be well on your way to helping your body to heal itself.
There are many places online where you can buy a meditation tape. These range from general web sites like Amazon, which provides an excellent range to help you start, through to specialist websites that only deal in meditation tapes and downloads. The choice is wide and the best thing is simply to find a site where you get on well with the sound of the guider's voice.
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.
—David Hume (1711–1776)
Which you choose is up to you and will depend to a large extent on whether you prefer to have a physical tape or CD that you can handle or if you prefer the immediate satisfaction of downloading a track that you can instantly transfer to your iPod and start to use, rather than waiting for the postal system to deliver your eagerly awaited meditation session.
Another advantage of using a specialist website for your meditation tracks is that quite a few of them will offer bonuses if you buy more than one session at once.
This, coupled with the laser precision of buying exactly the track you want, is leading more and more people to do away with meditation tapes and purchase their guided meditations online instead.
Whensoever any affliction assails me, me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgements upon them.
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
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