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There are myths around meditation - what it will do, what it won’t do, how it works.  This article looks at three of those myths.

MYTH NO. 1 - Meditation takes years of practice and requires super-human powers of concentration.

This is totally false. Meditation is simply a skill that anyone can learn. It takes little more than the ability to breathe deeply, close your eyes and focus on something. You can focus on a color, a shape, a sound, an object, a face, or anything that helps you block out the world around you.

You don’t need to wear fancy clothes or chant silly incantations. But then again, you can if you want to. And that’s another point to remember. Meditation is a personal experience: you do it the way you want to by following the techniques that suit you and your lifestyle.

MYTH NO. 2 - In order to meditate, you have to empty your mind.

This is also completely false. You probably already realize that it’s physically impossible to empty your mind. No matter what you do, there’s always something going on in there. Even when you’re asleep your mind is working away, sifting through information from your day and sorting things out for later use. Rather than thinking about emptying your mind, instead you should think about filling it with just ONE idea and trying to focus on that. That’s what REAL meditation is.

The ability to focus on a single thought is probably the only difficult part of meditation. And once you get the hang of that, with help from all the exercises included with this course, you’ll be able to meditate almost anywhere and at any time that’s convenient for you.

MYTH NO. 3 - Real meditation requires you to get into the Lotus position.

Are you kidding? Meditation is a thoroughly personal experience. It doesn’t require you to position your body in any special way. Crossing your legs in a way that is incredibly uncomfortable is NOT going to help quieten your mind!

There are many schools of meditation and special exercises from “international meditation gurus”. However the simple truth is that whatever works for you, works for you. There are no right and wrong ways to meditate.

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