The best way to meditate is to start with a slower time limit and then with more and more time limit. All for you health. It’s am when you meditate even 1 minute it’s makes your day a little bit more good.
Hi! Take easy steps so I would recommend you do about 5 minutes at first for 5/7 days (depending on your weekday and weekend routine) and add a few minutes every week. Take it slow and you will get there I promise! From Sameeha
A slower time limit. It starts to become more of a habit even if you do it for 5 minutes each day. You can then slowly increase the amount of time for meditating.
It’s best to start in the morning because it’s sets the tempo for the day and gives you a shield for the day’s stressors. Start short like 15 minutes then add time as you practice.
I think that meditation only needs focusing on a part of your present moment -- like your breathing. As long as you focus on the present moment and seek to appreciate it, not keep it, you have a solid foundation for anything in meditation, and even so in life. As to time limits, I myself do not know the time limits best for you. You can begin at low time limits, and adding 1 minute to your session time after you think you can handle longer. :)
I find that shorter sessions are best at first to get used to the process and acclimate. As times goes on you can increase the length of the meditation, however at the beginning a long session can be daunting and overwhelming, therefore you may be more likely to put it off or just not do it. Ease yourself in, day by day, to build the skill up.
Since meditation is a practice to train your brain, think of it like you would of a new workout for your quads. You would start slowly and build strength over time. Same with meditation. start with 5-10 min and then proceed to longer sessions. That’s how I did it and it wasn’t as intimidating this way.
I started meditating three years ago. I have throughout this time had long periods where I meditated daily and periods where I did not. I have found that the most important thing in order to maintain a daily meditation habit is to make it as easy as possible to do. I therefore have a subscription to the App “Calm” where there is a new ten minute meditation each day. Being able to just press a button to meditate in the morning makes it much easier to follow through each day. I would therefore recommend an App like “Calm” or “Headspace” and start with short meditations of five or ten minutes to begin with each day. Let this be your daily must and let anything beyond it be an add-on.
I say start off with a short time limit and then you’ll eventually realize that you create your own time limit by just knowing the type of meditation you’re performing due to repetition. I sometimes meditate for an hour, when I only listened to a fifteen minute guided meditation. Your body and mind have no limits once you get past box checking off your meditation time and purposefully or unknowingly engulfing yourself in the direction its taking you!
I find it is better to start with a smaller time limit as it lets the ball start running. It doesn’t seem like a daunting task, and you can celebrate each small achievement to start and lock in the habit. Give it enough time, and you will be craving your celebration; and therefore your time of celebration. When you get there, congratulate yourself…you just designed and brought to existence a new productive habit, with intention and intelligence; instead of willpower which is fleeting and hard to come by. Start small to achieve great goals :)