3. Some Elements of Meditation

Many meditation traditions advocate the use of a particular technique or structure to performing your meditation.

A quite room
Low lights
Incense (aroma)
Burning of candles
Chanting a mantra
A particular seating position
Thinking about particular things

While all these, and there are many more, may be helpful, it must be said that they are just elements that may help you to reach your meditation experience itself.

They are not a part of the actual meditation experience. Often, these external/environmental elements may help us, get in the mood, so to speak, but that is there only significance.

Once you have been able to achieve your meditation experience, these elements need to be done away with as they no longer serve any real purpose in our ongoing daily lives. There is a danger of only being able to meditate when you are in your well-setup environment and all conditions and circumstances are dealt with, but this trap will limit the beneficial experience of being able to meditate anywhere at anytime.

You can now meditate because you are practised not because or your environmental setup.