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Morning Meditation

Early in the morning, before you start your day, is the best time to meditate. The very best time to meditate is between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. But most people are not able to start their day that early with sufficient sleep. For most people, the best fixed time for a morning meditation is before 6:30am. With a morning meditation, you are starting your day off in a positive way. You are starting your day with hope and freshness. Many negative experiences from the previous day are temporarily out of your memory. A morning meditation is the best way to start your day.

Another reason that morning meditation is the best time to meditate is because early in the morning, before the sun rises, the atmosphere around you is very calm and quiet. This stillness all around you will help you to be able to meditate. You will be able to have a deeper meditation if you can meditate when people around you are taking rest.

When people around you begin to move around and enter into their daily activities, their vibrations enter into you. Meditation is generally a lot more difficult during the day. After dawn, the atmosphere around you is much more restless and filled with the vibration of human activities and anxieties.

If you are an absolute beginner, the simple act of sitting quietly for a few moments with a proper meditation posture early in the morning can easily begin to give you a sense of what is meditation because the calmness of the early morning will prevade your morning meditation process.

Benefits of Early Morning Meditation

If you start your day off in a positive way with a special moment for yourself, it will have an inspiring influence on your entire day. This special moment will resonate throughout your day. During your day, as you engage with others and enter into your various activites, you will feel the the positive affects of your early morning meditation. Here is a simple list of morning meditation benefits:

  • Your morning meditation will have a positive affect on your whole day. You will be able to benefit from and feel the results of your meditation throughout your day.
  • The meditation that you experience during your morning meditation will be more beneficial to your spiritual progress than a meditation during the day or evening.
  • Your meditation will generally be more profound and fulfilling if you meditate in the early hours of the morning.
  • Early morning is generally a time when you can be sure that nobody will disturb you.
  • It is generally easier to meditate in the early morning than at other times of the day.
  • If you think of the results of your meditation as spiritual dollars, then a good meditation in the evening is like receiving ten thousand spiritual dollars, whereas a good meditation in the morning is like receiving one million spiritual dollars.
  • You will learn how to meditate faster if you regularly practice early morning meditation.

Morning Meditation Tips

It is best to meditate as soon as possible after you get up. Your morning meditation should be done before you start your daily activities. Do not read the newspaper, or do housework, etc. before your morning meditation. Other than a shower, simple exercises, reading spiritual books, and otherwise getting prepared for your morning meditation, the less activity you enter into before your morning meditation the better. Here is a simple list of morning meditation tips:

  • You should start your morning meditation before 6:30am.
  • Set a fixed time for your morning meditation and/or set a fixed time for your evening meditation. It is not necessary—unless you find it helpful—to have more than one fixed time for your daily meditation if you meditate more than once a day.
  • If you wish, you can try a few stretches or exercises before you begin your morning meditation.
  • If you are not accustomed to getting up early in the morning, try gradually going to bed earlier and gradually getting up earlier.
  • It is best to stay awake after your morning meditation. If you are seriously having trouble getting the proper amount of sleep, you can go back to sleep for a little while after your morning meditation. However, it is not good to sleep for too long.
  • If you are late for your morning meditation, you should meditate first thing after you get up. In addition, if you miss your morning meditation, or are late for it, then you should try to also meditate in the evening, if possible, later that day.
  • If, after your alarm goes off, you feel that you're not getting enough sleep and you should therefore continue to sleep rather than get out of bed for your morning meditation try telling yourself that what you need to do is go to bed earlier in the evening rather than sleep in in order to get more sleep.

Evening Is the Next Best Time For Meditation

The best thing is to meditate both in the morning and in the evening. However, if you’re not able to set a fixed time for a regular early morning meditation, you should definitely set a fixed time for regular evening meditation. For instance, if you work late into the evening every day (or most days) and are unable to start your days early every morning then you should meditate at night before you go to bed. It’s not as easy to meditate in the evening with the same kind of hope and freshness. However, the evening is the next best time to meditate because, at that time, the atmosphere is becoming calm and peaceful. People around you are preparing to rest, and this is conducive to meditation. You should meditate every day. And, according to this meditation guide, your regular daily meditation should either be an early morning meditation, an evening meditation, or both.

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