FAQ’s

Listening to guided meditations can be beneficial, and they can be great for relaxation and some other things. However you can get much better results by learning how to meditate. Whether it’s for the health and well-being benefits of meditation, or enlightenment, reducing stress, or whatever else you hope to gain. Learning how to meditate and having a regular meditation practice gives you the best chance of getting them.

Guided meditations will only take you so far, but learning how to meditate can take you all the way. Why? Because being able to meditate allows us to achieve deeper meditative states, and opens us up to experiencing the true benefits of meditation that can enrich our lives and wellbeing. We are also free to meditate any time we want, anywhere we like, for free, whenever we chose, without needing the assistance of any type of device.

Some meditations are practised for specific reasons. For example mindfulness meditation used as a form of therapy can be practised to help us stay more fully ‘present’ and ‘aware’ in the moment. Practising mindfulness like this can help us be more aware of our thoughts, moment by moment, so we can distance ourselves from them, and allow some time to consider our reaction or response to them.

Mindfulness meditation which is practised as a therapy is very different to traditional meditations designed for relaxation, enlightenment, to transcend ourselves, etc. During these forms of meditation, there is no special state of consciousness to aim for as such. We can’t force a certain state to happen. Meditation requires us to use a small amount of relaxed effort, and being open to receive and experience whatever spontaneously occurs as a result.

The old myth is each time you meditate you are supposed to enter a trance-like state of bliss, which feels like floating in rays of heavenly light. As much as this might happen, there are actually numerous states of awareness or altered states of consciousness you might experience.

Meditative states fluctuate and depend on a variety of factors. The more you practice, the more experienced you become, and the better you get at being able to enter them and go even deeper. They can vary from the mundane, like not noticing anything at all, to having some very pleasant experiences like feeling blissful.

We can also get lightbulb moments where we instantaneously have the solution to a problem we’d been trying to solve. Sometimes we drift into altered states of conscious that can be intensely dreamlike, or mystical. We can also experience things that words can’t describe. We just go with the flow and accept whatever happens. Even if it means just sitting there, feeling like nothing is happening.

An altered state of consciousness can be any state of consciousness that’s different to your normal waking state. In an altered state, the mind is aware, but it’s not in its usual waking state. In altered states of consciousness we sense or perceive things differently to how we usually do. There are times we naturally drift into altered states of consciousness, for example, when we are daydreaming, sleeping, during hypnosis, while hallucinating, or while meditating.

You’ve probably seen pictures of people meditating while holding their fingers and thumbs together in certain positions. Those are called mudras, and they’re used as a spiritual gesture, or combined with special breathing techniques in order to stimulate different parts of the body.

When you learn how to meditate with me, you don’t need to worry about the complexities of learning mudras. When it comes to meditating, simply put your hands in whatever position feels the most comfortable for you. Mudras are not relevant to the way we will be meditating.

You don’t need to become a buddhist, change your faith, or become religious to meditate. You don’t need to join an organisation. You don’t have to pay the huge sums of money that are sometimes charged. You don’t even need to trek around the world in search of a Guru.

Meditation doesn’t belong to any faith or religion. People have been meditating for thousands of years. Meditation is easy to learn and simple to do, and anyone can do it. Follow the simple steps that I share with you, and you will be able to meditate.

One reason meditation is difficult for some people is because they’ve found someone, or some information which has made it difficult. There is a huge misconception about meditation being hard, needing lots of training, years of practice, or being something that only certain kinds of people can do.

The truth is anyone and everyone is capable of being able to meditate as long as they take a little time to practice. Everyone starts as a beginner, and like trying all new things, the more you practice, the easier it gets. Davina McCall, Beyoncé, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, and Oprah Winfrey were all beginners once.

Meditation should be easy and enjoyable, and it will be if you follow the framework and simple steps that I share with you. You’ll see for yourself just how easy it is. When you feel confident enough to do it on your own, you can. You’re then free to meditate anytime, anyplace, whenever you choose.