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1. Take it (meditation) easy.
2. Don’t make it homework – homework sucks.
3. Try to meditate same time everyday, establishing a schedule helps in making it a habit.
4. Don’t write it in your to-do list. Let it be a thought in your mind.
5. Put of light music in background.
6. Meditate in soft sunlight.
7. Meditate on beach.
8. Focusing is meditation – not concentration.
9. Write how you feel before and after meditation in a diary.
10. Write what your favourite meditation technique in your meditation diary/journal.
11. Let thoughts come, pay no heed and they will pass.
12. Don’t fight your thoughts, you cannot stop them but you can ignore them and take your conscious away from thoughts.
13. Dance followed by meditation feels awesome.
14. Exercise followed by meditation is twice the benefit and definitely more fun.
15. Painting is meditation.
16. Singing to yourself is meditation.
17. Meditate whenever, wherever you can.
18. Read inspiring people like Swami Vivekananda, Paulo Coelho, Louise Hay etc.
19. Do affirmations in meditation, they are 100 times more powerful in that state.
20. Try chanting.
21. Write love letters to your girlfriend/boyfriend after meditating – you will be amazed at your power of expression.
22. Keep your meditation a secret.
23. Or tell everyone you meditate and see how they react.
24. Write, Write, Write… poetry, articles.
25. Draw doodles or paint (if you can).
26. Blog your meditation experience.
27. Meditate on inspiring thoughts.
28. Visualize your goals/dreams in meditation and see them all come true.
29. Do a group meditation with your friends.
30. Make a music band – they will never know they are meditating when they are making music.
31. Clean a coroner in your room – just empty it and place some cushions – your minimalist meditation corner.
32. Do #31 to a room.
33. Light small candle(s) during meditation.
34. Chant ‘Nam-Myho-Ho-Renge-Kyo’
35. Chant ‘Aum-Mani-Padme-Hum’
36. Chant ‘Aum’ / ‘Om’
37. Chant / Sing ‘Hare Rama Hare Rama; Rama Rama Hare Hare’
38. Chant /Sing ‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishan; Krishna Krishna Hare Hare’
39. Memorize excerpts from Lotus Sutra or Heart Sutra and chant/sing.
40. Watch ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ movie.
41. Donate. (to us?)
42. Grow Flowers.
43. Grow fruits/vegetables.
44. Pet your cat, dog… whatever you have.
45. Don’t have a pet? Watch a sleeping baby.
46. Don’t have a baby? Well…
47. …Imagine one! (Remember these are ‘High School’ tips)
48. … or borrow one at your own risk.
49. Try Mathematics; if you can’t solve it laugh at it!
50. Go on picnic.
51. Go on picnic alone – it’s not lame … it’s called soul searching.
52. That reminds me – Soul Searching.
53. Remind me to start secret newsletter on Meditation Rocks!
54. Imagine – one place you can do anything, be anything and have anything.
55. …believe it can come true.
56. …see it coming true.
57. Learn a foreign language.
58. Make your own secret script/language.
59. Now no one can read your secret diary/journal.
60. Join our fan page.
61. Do some social service.
62. Call your grandma and tell her how much you love her.
63. Text your mom –say ‘mom i luv u’
64. … no enjoy her wet eyes and awesome dinner tonight.
65. Add your parents in your facebook friend list – AT YOUR OWN RISK!
66. Subscribe to our RSS feed – that simply rocks.
67. Bake…
68. …a cake and if it’s good send it to me coz I advised you to bake it.
69. Cookies and if they are good I will join the dark side – coz you have cookies.
70. Donate your old clothes – haven’t used them since year – THROW THEM AWAY RIGHT NOW!
71. … Watch where you throw them. Btw some homeless kid might use them well.
72. Don’t get drunk – for a change.
73. Meditation has same effect and it’s – FREE!
74. Try hoping instead of doping.
75. Buy gifts for your friend on no special day. They will love you.
76. Don’t have bucks? Draw greeting cards saying ‘You’re Awsm!’ no matter how bad they are they will love it.
77. Chuck the friends who don’t love them.
78. Bunk your school.
79. Or maybe attend your school for a change.
80. Respect your elders? Bah! Respect the younger ones – they will be more tech savvy then you.
81. Mail Bill Gates appreciating (for a change) his work.
82. Mail Steve Jobs telling him how he inspired you.
83. Get a life if you don’t know who Steve Jobs is.
84. Follow us on twitter coz we give out awesome tips and inspiration.
85. Read all the tips.
86. Lend your Xbox to your sibling for an hour – at your own risk.
87. Or let them play with you, at least. Your mom is suspecting a gypsy around.
88. Get abducted by aliens, and let me know how you did it coz I want to do it too.
89. Or at least blog that you were abducted.
90. Read Meditation Rocks! Regularly – to keep your life rocking awesome.
91. Learn to speak ‘Super-cali-fragilistic-expialid-ocious’
92. It means ‘fantastic’ – your English teacher might be happy.
93. Retweet this awesome post.
94. Write rampage of appreciation for everyone around you – EVERYONE.
95. Don’t steal? Bah! Steal hearts by doing small acts of kindness.
96. Let me know how I rock.
97. … expect a mail from me – I will tell you how much your rock.
98. We will have an awesome rocking society.
99. Download FRiEnDz magazine latest edition. (PDF)
100. Add your tips in comments. (Remember to number them from 101 and so on so we could know how many we have in total.
101. Make a comment or drop us mail on how you like our blog?

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Creativity sounds awesome! Doesn’t it? It’s the best expression ever given to humankind. We create things, we create thoughts, relations, paintings, music, movies, websites, blogs and above all – we create our own reality.

It’s a very empowering expression or emotion or whatever you want to call it. I like the very sound of it – Creativity!

Ages ago we discussed how to tap creativity through meditation also we shared some killer tips to boost creativity. Today let’s talk about creating a ‘creative mind’ in 15 min.

You will need: A blank sheet of paper, a pencil, alarm clock and yourself.

Meditation

First thing first, creativity is not work, creativity is absolutely not hard work. Creativity is relaxation, it’s allowing. So if you have sit up and prepared yourself for battle, I request you to calm down. Let’s do brief meditation, I promise it’s very brief. Read the method then do whatever you remember of it:

• Close your eyes.
• Take deep breathe in and out. (3 times)
• Breathe Normal and focus on your breathing, let your mind do what it does.
• Just relax more and more and more. If you are relaxed, relax more.
• Count to from 10 to 1 and come back to walking conscious.

See? I kept my promise. Set the alarm clock to buzz after 15 minutes. Now let’s take the pencil and paper. Do whatever you feel like with that paper and pencil. Want to write gibberish? Draw doodles? Poem? Draw a cartoon (your teacher or boss)? Do whatever you feel like. If you want to do some origami do that.

The Process

You have just have that pencil, that paper and 15 min. No deadline, no pressure. Want to do it? Go ahead, or else just gaze at the blank sheet.

Your mind will fill of thoughts like, “Poem? Are you kidding me? I suck at poetry.” I’d say forget you suck or better, write a sucking poem!  (And send it to me, I’ve never read a sucking poem).

Points to Remember:

• It’s OK if you do nothing in beginning. Repeat the process again daily, for a week at least and you will start on your own .
• You will see your mind’s creativity unleashing in front of you. Right there in 15 min.
• Do not pressurize yourself to do something. Our goal is not doing. It’s not work, remember? Our goal is relaxing and allowing.
• Remember to send me a photo of what you wrote, drew or made of it. I’d love to see you guys progress.

Here is a bit of help:

Join our fan page on facebook or/and twitter and join the discussion, I’ll remind you to meditate and practice creative mind technique. We will discuss your progress here, it will be so awesome to see each other growing.

I’ll remind you to meditate (your favorite technique) and also we will discuss your progress. All sailing in same boat shall gather here. Isn’t that a creative idea?

Photo Credit: Pencil N’ Paper by quacktaculous, on Flickr

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Yea you heard it right! Quiet a statement, isn’t it? I too was shocked when I heard one of my friends saying this. He clarified further (after seeing the look on my face and remembering that I blog about Meditation), “Dude, I respect your passion and creativity and the amount of hard work you are putting into it, but trust me it is dead. Dead as in not in use anymore.”
He took a brief pause and if you are wondering, I was quiet calm (I meditate, you see). “Let’s put it this way”, he continued, “I am the future generation and I don’t meditate and as far as I know I won’t meditate ever. And the 100 instant friends I know are like me expect the 101th like you. So, meditation is dying art, in fact it is dead. Anyways, all the best with it.”

What do you think was my reaction? Did I burst with laughter? Or did I give him a long lecture summarizing all the content I had in my mind?

Well, none of above! I just smiled and said, “Yeah Dude! It’s so dead. Let’s grab a bite.”

Surprised again? Don’t worry, I am not planning to close the blog since my friend(s) think that meditation is dead… just I am going to share with you what I think about it(that’s what I always do).

So here is a guy who consciously knows nothing about meditation and subconsciously meditates (he is huge fan of country music). Here he is breathing and saying that breathing has no future.

I just have one thought about the whole thing, and it is quiet calming. Meditation is an experience that every being goes through (consciously or unconsciously) and give it the best name he could. And lives a whole lifetime trying to achieve it. While it is here, in now – in the present moment.

Humans are funny; they spend a lifetime preparing for a lifetime.

Let meditation be dead, for humans have always dreamt of bringing back the dead (it’s thrilling). Here, meditation gives you a chance to experience that too.

So is meditation dead for you?
Photo Credit:Dead vlei by benny_bloomfield, on Flickr

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In our last post we discussed relation between Creativity and Meditation. And before I share with you some awesome tips to boost your creativity, I want you to know that meditation (to boost creativity) is certainly not some traditional ritual. It’s doing what makes you feel good, and what aligns you with who you really are.

1. Write Poetry: You might think that you are not a poet, but that’s the key. You need not to be. Just do it for the fun of it and laugh at it as you go. And your love is going to love it!
2. Paint with kids: They don’t give a damn if they drew nose too big. They love what they do, and that is what you will learn with them.
3. Paint your Song: Put on your favourite song and close your eyes and let images form in your imagination, now draw it. It’s awesome.
4. Learn to Play an Instrument: This is going to teach you many principles of meditation and your mind will be open to new ideas and things.
5. Create a blog: I remember when I wrote my first blog post, man I laugh at it every time I see it and today I am confident enough to run 3 blogs and planning to add 2 more!
6. Keep a Diary: If you don’t want to share your life publicly, write it in the secret pages.
7. Learn a Foreign Language: It will give you more job opportunities, boost your confidence, boost your brain, prevent aging of brain and yea! Give you a secret language to write in.
8. Cook: Cooking for yourself is just awesome way to pamper yourself and be creative by experimenting. It’s good time for mom to take a break.
9. Transform your life: Write down about your life on a blank piece of paper. Write whatever you feel like. Swear, sing do whatever you feel like and now keep that paper somewhere safe. Now practice meditation for a week, write about your life again. Compare the content and handwriting of two papers. Voila! Life is transformed. Don’t forget to thank me (ahem!) and share your experience (mail me!)
10. Draw Doodles: This small tip has changed many lives! Just go ahead and draw doodles. Keep compiling your work. And you will see the magic happening.
11. Sing while you Work: Well, if you can. Whenever I am doing some creative job (like painting, writing articles or making websites. Either I put on music to sing along or simply hum the tunes. Well, make sure your boss it okay with it (if you have one).

So you see the basic idea, eh? Have fun in whatever you do! No brainers! And you will get used to the flow of creativity. Soon, you will be the new creative genius.

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