Meditation for beginners: Please note, this is a personal article, on personal experience.
Meditation for beginners
My Personal Experience:
The first time I tried to meditate, I thought I was doing it wrong. I expected silence, some great emptiness, maybe even the feeling of floating. Instead, my mind was louder than ever—throwing up grocery lists, unfinished conversations, weekend plans, the noise of everything I thought I had left behind the moment I closed my eyes.
But then something curious happened.
I was thinking about dinner—just that. Should I make dal, or maybe something light like upma? I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere in that spiral of deciding what to cook, I slipped. For a moment, I wasn’t deciding anymore. I wasn’t even aware of myself thinking. I was just… gone. Not asleep. Not lost. Just elsewhere.
And when I came back, it was like waking from the briefest dream. My chest felt lighter. My mind—though still noisy—wasn’t as heavy. For that fraction of a second, I had touched something. Something that felt like being rinsed clean from the inside.
That is meditation. Not controlling your mind, and trusting your soul.
Meditation is often misunderstood. People imagine silence, emptiness, a grand stillness waiting like a temple inside. But when you close your eyes, the mind does not bow. It shouts. It reminds you of groceries, of voices left unheard, of plans waiting on tomorrow. It floods you with everything you tried to escape.
And yet—if you allow it—there comes a moment when thought curls in on itself. Perhaps you were deciding what to cook tonight, perhaps you were chasing some small plan for the weekend. Then, without warning, the thought is no longer yours. You are simply suspended, absent yet aware, lost yet untouched. When you return, you feel rinsed, lighter, as though the dust of life has been washed off the soul.
That too is meditation.
But true meditation—the one sages describe in whispers—is deeper. It is the spine erect like a pillar of light, the body rooted in earth yet open to the vast sky above. Cross-legged, palms turned upward in gyan mudra, you sit as if the universe itself were listening. In that posture, the body remembers it is more than flesh—it is a vessel for silence.
Yet not all reach this stage easily. Forcing yourself not to think is no meditation at all; it is the mind waging war against itself. Real meditation is trust. To lose yourself in thought without fear, to let the mind wander until the soul gently steps forward—that is the beginning. To surrender is to allow.
The mind will resist, as it always has, for survival is stitched into its memory across lifetimes. And most times, the mind will win. But before it takes you back, there is a fleeting gap—a thin slice of stillness, a breath between breaths. In that gap lives pure consciousness. In that gap, you are no longer the body, no longer the mind—you are only being.
Even a second is enough.
So begin where you are. Close your eyes. Sit in comfort. Lie down if you must. Do not chase silence; let it find you. And one day, when you are ready, you will sit beneath the open sky, back straight, palms in mudra, and discover that silence has always been within you, waiting.
Meditation is not the art of silencing the mind.
It is the grace of hearing the soul.
Thank you for reading.
About the author
Payal Dedhia is a contemporary and dark romance author based in Mumbai, India. A former corporate trainer and self-proclaimed bookworm, she now pours her passion into crafting emotionally intense love stories—where obsession meets vulnerability and hearts collide in unforgettable ways.
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