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6.  Soon (within seconds to minutes)  you will begin to feel a blissful feeling.  This is cosmic intelligence, your reward for doing meditation.

7.  Continue to do this for as long as practical for you.  It is best to do the number of minutes of your age in one sitting.  So if you are 45 years old, you do it for 45 minutes.  You can start with a shorter period of time like 5 to 10 minutes at first, building up to longer periods of time.   It is important to do some meditation each day, so if you need to make it short, at least make it effective.

That’s all there is to it.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO MEDITATE with me, just go to book your appointment.

I learned how to do this from a Center for Spiritual Living (formerly Science of Mind) Minister.  I went every week for about 6 weeks.  He started me on 5 minutes.  Then built me up to about 30 minutes, each week asking how I was doing and telling me I had to do more.

I went to him because I had a BIG problem at work.  My new manager seemed to “have it in for me,” micromanaging my every step, my every move, as if I did not know what I was doing.  Mind you, I had been doing the job I was in for over 6 years, always with stellar performance reviews from prior managers.

This got me “crazy” with fear.  If I lost my job I would lose stock options I had worked so hard to cultivate.  I would lose everything I had worked to achieve monetarily.

I was a bit frantic, to say the least.  When I went to the minister and all he did was teach me to meditate, I thought either he is or I am crazy.  However, I did not know what else to do, so I did it.

Then what happened was, over time, my fears began to dissipate.  Nothing had changed in my job, I just got relaxed.  Nothing seemed to bother me anymore.  I became happy, even though my outside world had not changed.