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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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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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Do you think you don’t meditate? Well think again! What happens when it’s your favourite track playing on iPod? When you feel so good petting your cat? When you love spending time with your best friend? When you just take a quick nap? You are meditating! No, really you are!

Meditation is as Natural as Breathing.

You don’t have to sit in some yoga poses wearing orange clothes to meditate. Think of it as breathing. Do you take out time to breathe? Do you make any extra effort to breathe? Do you wear special clothes to breathe? No! Same is true for meditation too.

Don’t do anything to begin. Either follow the simple meditation process I talked about in earlier post or just do any of following:

• Plug-in your iPod: Just put on your favourite inspirational music. Love songs do the best.
• Paint: Even if you think you can’t. Just paint for the fun of it, not to show it to anyone… just for your soul.
• Write a Poem: Let your thoughts flow, forget the rhyming scheme or book on ‘How to Write Poetry’ just be with the flow.
• Watch Sunset or Sunrise: It’s wonderful, do it with someone special and now it’s really special.
• Travel: You are not living your life id you are not traveling.
• Pet your cat: or whatever pet you have (if you have one)
• Play with a baby: it really teaches you a lot.
• Play a music instrument or Learn to play one.
• Watch Comedy Shows: Well that’s easy

What’s on your list? Add to the list! Let’s make it grow. (Use comment section)

None of these sound like traditional meditation, do they? Well that’s what this blog is all about: new simple, easy or crazy ideas.

These simple things will allow you get more control over your thoughts. They will start flying in formations. You will begin to change your feelings deliberately. You will start living by heart. This is meditation. Just let go. Be at ease and let it flow. Now, you are at peace.

Share your experiences, problems, questions or simple/crazy ideas in comments. I’d love to hear them all!

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