Witches always tell others that meditation is the most important thing to learn when just starting with witchcraft. They tell you it is an essential part of the practice, but most of the time don’t tell why it is. Why should everyone learn to meditate and what are the benefits of it?
What happens when we meditate?
Everyone can meditate, even though it is not easy for everyone. Some need guided meditation, while others prefer to meditate in complete silence. When meditating successfully you will get in a meditative state. But this state will look different from time to time. Most think that meditation is a silence of thoughts and a calmness in their feelings. And yes, this can happen. Though not all meditative states look like this. A lot of them actually bring a lot of emotions with them. These are also very helpful, because sometimes our emotions tell us a story. Sometimes frustration helps us understand how we can move forward. Meditation brings you to this. It helps us move forward and get a clearer understanding of ourselves or the world around us. There are a few common ways meditation will help us.
1. Staying calm
Meditation can help us stay calm. It can get rid of all the negative thoughts or block out the racing thoughts of our mind. The most used technique for this outcome is breathwork. With this you have to focus on your own breath as you breathe in and out. After a while you will be more intune with your body and less with the racing thoughts. The more you practice, the more relaxed you will be. It can also help outside of the mediation. You will learn a better way to regulate your emotions. With this your mindfulness will also be improving, because you can stay present in your thoughts and feelings.
2. Making better decisions
Sometimes it’s hard to make a decision, big or small. Meditation can help us with that. It makes you concentrate on the decision you need to make. You can now look at the pros and cons without all those other thoughts interfering. One way to help you with this is guided meditation. On a lot of apps and sites there are guided meditation which help you with what you need to get done. You can search for meditations that help with indecisiveness.
3. Better sleep
We learn to control our emotions and thoughts with meditation as mentioned above. This will also result in better sleep. A great tip is to meditate before you go to sleep. Now you can leave the worries behind you in meditation and have a worryless night. And maybe you don’t have to meditate before sleeping later on because you have created a habit of leaving those worries behind you.
4. Becoming more spiritual
Meditation can improve your witchcraft, spirituality and psychic abilities. This is because meditation makes us think clearer and sense clearer. Energies will be heightened which helps us to listen to our intuition. After a while manipulating energy also becomes easier. Of course more practice results in better skills.
Meditating at home
Meditation can be done anywhere, but the place most people meditate is at home. Especially when you’re just starting it’s important to meditate at a place which makes you feel good. But it can also be challenging when you do not know what to do. There are a lot of different ways to meditate which you can look into. The most common ways are breathwork and guided meditations. These can be done anywhere and are great when you are in your own home.
