Ever been curious about meditation? In Meditation Techniques: 21 Steps That Will Lead You to Happiness, you will find everything you need to know to start meditating - with informative chapters on how to advance into more advanced meditation practices. Whether you only want to improve your health and have more calm in your life or if you are looking to embark on a sacred journey that begins with simple meditation and ends in the enlightenment described by meditation masters throughout the ages, Meditation Techniques lays the groundwork for you to begin a meditation practice that can be as practical or as mystical as you choose to make it.

With simple but salient examples, Meditation Techniques is written in simple, accessible language that helps newcomers understand the central doctrines around meditation, its functions, its features, and the ultimate goals its students can achieve. Learn how science has discovered the many health benefits of meditation and how the ancient teachings of meditation masters appear to be supported by the latest discoveries in sub-atomic physics.

Experience the power meditation can provide in your life without any requirement to believe in any particular doctrine or sect. This is a completely agnostic book. While it is sensitive to the spiritual teachings and claims of meditation masters, it does not demand any belief or acceptance of anything beyond what the beginning meditator can experience for himself or herself by simply trying out the practical meditation techniques and witnessing the health and other benefits directly. At the same time, this book is open to the mysterious and profound claims meditation experts have made for thousands of years about the amazing things meditation can bring to its faithful practitioners.

In this book, you will learn:

• The health benefits of practical meditation
• The correct posture for meditation
• How to focus inward
• How to control your breathing to enter a meditative state
• Ways to relax your muscles to prepare for meditation
• Alternative breathing techniques
• Understanding how motivation affects meditation practices
• The power of equanimity and forgiveness
• How awareness and stillness are viewed by meditation masters
• How to use visualization in meditation
• Mantra meditation
• The Wisdom in uncertainty