 I'm going to teach you how to meditate this morning for beginners even if you don't know anything about meditation so don't click away just yet I know I can see you there I can see you're trying to click away onto another video already don't worry this is the best video about meditation I'm going to teach you exactly how to meditate why you should learn the benefits the risks and basically all you need to know so if you've never meditated before here is how it works the the whole basis of it is to disconnect your awareness from your subconscious and from your mind chatter you'll notice that most of the time throughout the day we experience this sort of chatter where our mind is just constantly thinking thoughts we're thinking about all different types of things what we're going to have for lunch what the weather's like what we're going to text back to a friend or whatever these thoughts just bubble up seemingly out of nowhere okay but it's important to disconnect from them because when you're associated with and when you relate to these thoughts your awareness your awareness sort of diminishes and it's very important to get back into your awareness so the easiest way of doing this is just with a really simple meditation technique which I'm going to teach you right now so it's very simple you just count from one to ten when you get to ten you start again at one so you just breathe you count one with the in breath so just one two and then you just carry on like that three four until you get to ten don't rush the breath don't try and breathe at a certain speed don't try and force yourself to breathe because the more you try and force yourself to breathe the less likely you'll be able to it's kind of a weird paradox I know so just do it however it naturally happens don't try and time it or anything but what you should do is set a timer on your phone to go off after 10 minutes and just do that for 10 minutes now what's going to happen when you do this is probably that you're going to be constantly thinking of things if this is the first time that you've meditated you're going to be constantly thinking random thoughts okay and they could be anything they literally could be anything it could be like what you're going to have for dinner is this meditation working should it be feeling like this am i doing it right whatever now the key is as soon as you recognize yourself having those thoughts you instantly bring your attention back to the breathing to the counting of the breaths from one to ten some more things i need to mention okay and i'm going to explain also at the end the benefits of this and why you really need to do this if you want to live your best life feel good have more energy feel less depression whatever so a few tips with this first number one make sure you're sitting in upright position ideally with your back straight supported by a nice chair or a cushion and you're you're comfortable you don't want to be uncomfortable but at the same time you don't want to be so relaxed that you're just slouching in a sofa and it's easy to fall asleep because if you're doing this in the morning it's very easy to just lose track of time and essentially fall asleep which is quite embarrassing and annoying but it happens okay if you're new to meditation it's going to happen quite often especially if you're meditating either first thing in the morning or last thing at night which is the two best times to meditate the only exception the only the third best time would be if you're super stressed or if you need to reset yourself during the day two best times during the morning and the last thing before going to bed so make sure you're comfortable but you're not so comfortable that you could fall asleep make sure your breathing is easy and natural don't try and force anything don't try and exert effort into breathing just let it happen okay you know how to breathe you've been doing it for your whole life just let it happen naturally without trying to count your breaths in in the sense of timing them just count them as they happen don't try and count them as in like you're trying to get your breaths to stay consistent with your counting the camera died there for a second so you're going to be thinking random things but don't let that worry you okay it's natural it's part of the process and to be honest it happens to everyone you know you're going to constantly be having these random thoughts and the key to meditation and this is why by the way it's so important to do to practice this every day the key is just to stay consistent and just to keep building up that habit of when you notice yourself thinking about something bring your awareness back into just your breathing and there are many ways by the way you've probably heard of all types of meditation there's transcendent transcendental meditation there's you know mantra based meditation there's all sorts of meditations where the key is to focus on something whether it's your body you know your breathing a thought a mantra a statement or whatever or even if it's just nothing just just transcend beyond thoughts and beyond feelings the idea is always that you're focused on one thing and so the most common types of meditation are the ones where you focus on your body how you feel and if you've heard any of these guided meditations on youtube you know especially ones like for example headspace they focus on guiding you through different levels so you might start by thinking how do your feet feel and then how do you like how relax to your legs what's the sensation in your upper body your arms your neck and it's guiding you through focusing on something always one thing at a time it's always one thing at a time that you're focusing on but like I said the reason I'm teaching you this technique for beginners just to focus on the breathing is because that is something everyone can do a lot of people find it hard to focus on how their arms feel you know or if you're sitting there it's hard to focus on how your neck feels for example because you're not really aware of it most of the time but breathing is one of those things that you you do every day all day and it's quite easy to bring your focus to that when you really just take a moment and try and focus on your breath that's easier I find than focusing on how your back feels for example I mean I guess they're all kind of easy but the breathing one is just the easiest one to start with and it's also the easiest one to do in a short period of time in just five or ten minutes which I think is massively more important than meditating for an hour once a week you really need to get the benefits you really need to meditate for five minutes at least five minutes every single morning in order to get the best benefits if you just do it every now and then it's nice but it's not really going to give you it's not really going to make a difference to your life it's not really going to change how you feel and therefore how you act so really try and meditate every morning I hope you've enjoyed this video on how to meditate in the morning make sure to subscribe to the channel because I post weekly meditation lucid dreaming videos sleep tips that sort of thing and turn on notifications by the way if you leave a comment on this video if you've watched this far okay you're in one of the small you're in the minority of people who actually watched an entire video on youtube most people they watch 20 seconds and they go find something else and then keep flicking between videos until they inevitably go off youtube and do something else so if you're watching this thank you for watching this whole video I would love you to subscribe and also leave a comment letting me know if you even got this far I'm really curious to see how many people watch this far into the video so leave a comment good luck with the meditation and I'll see you in the next video