To meditate, you will benefit from focusing your attention on one thing. Whether it is your breath, walking, or eating an apple, you need to slow down and pay close attention, savouring all the details of your senses. A good example of this practice is the Chocolate Mindfulness Meditation. The mind is like an impatient restless child here – it gets bored quickly and will quickly move on to thoughts about other things. Here is where you need to do something different to normal – instead of engaging with that thought and following where it goes, you need to instead detach and just observe it and then return back to the focus point, such as the breath.
One point I would like to clarify is that you can’t control the thoughts coming up but can control how you react to them – learning to be a spectator rather than caught up in them.
So there you have it – an easy introduction to meditation that you can start immediately. Have a go at doing this even five minutes a day for the next two weeks. I hope this is helpful to you.