What is an effective meditation strategy – not a plan, schedule or routine, but a high-level strategy that will move you forward?
In order to have a strategy, you need to have a goal. What is your goal with meditation? Common answers are stress reduction and relaxation, focus and centeredness, more energy, better health, creativity, etc.
Present moment awareness meditation is not only effective as a meditation practice, but also as practice during your daily life.
A simple, yet very powerful technique is to ask yourself the question: Am I aware right now?
This may seem like a pretty easy question to answer, and the mind might respond with “of course I’m aware right now.” However, you can take this question to a deeper level and it can have great use for you in meditation and daily life toward becoming aware of awareness itself.