How to sit

Seated method:

1. Get comfortable.
2. Stack head over shouldersa.
3. Straighten spine without tension.
4. Feel your sit bones supporting you.
5. Close eyes.
6. Release eye tension behind eyelids.
7. Soften skin on forehead.
8. Breathe in and out through the nose.
9. Watch your breath.
10. The mind will begin to think and you will begin to notice your thinking because the body is still and the mind is watchful.
11. When you notice that you are thinking, bring your mind's eye back to the breath without disturbance, judgment, or self-criticism.
12. Avoid harming your mindstate. Open to a state of watchfulness without reproach.
13. Notice if your pattern is to judge (particularly yourself).
14. Soften and keep coming back to the breath in your mind's eye.

It seems like you aren't doing much. In fact, you are doing a great deal. You are starting to Be. You are breaking habits by noticing your habits. Thoughts are habits.

Watch and be alert.

As soon as thoughts arise, coming back to the breath can, literally, change the way you think.

As soon as you change the thought process by coming from a place of non-judgment, you start to act from a heart-centered place of love. And this is where the magic happens. In this realm of the heart, karma, or past actions can be cleansed.

It takes constant practice.

You can do it!--Charry