At the outset, I would suggest a slight change in the wording of your question. You cannot do meditation because it is a state of non-doing being. When you stop doing anything you start being in meditation. Let us reframe this question as: “Would you consider being in meditation by yourself or subjecting yourself to hypnosis?”
As a little baby growing up into a toddler, you needed the gentle presence of someone to hold your hand and help you begin walking. Once you learnt to walk on your own, you started running and you no longer needed to hold that hand anymore.
Hypnosis may have certain negative connotations to some people but if you can find a truly adept mentor or guru who is simply interested in facilitating your transition from a toddler to a running child in terms of meditation, why not? I am a marathon runner both literally as well as in the field of spirituality and I recommend guided meditation as an alternate to hypnosis. Just sit with the following guided meditation audio for five minutes and see if it works for you.
Selvans Short Meditation – Witnessing The 4 Simultaneous Activities
This is a five minutes short guided meditation for slowing down the racing thoughts in your mind and coming back into grounded presence within yourself with a quiet mind. You can do this at any time d
Before you listen to this to practice meditation, I would suggest a few minutes of FGCB followed by Deep Crossing along with FGCB. Use the following links to learn these.
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What are some breathing exercises for beginners who struggle with focusing on their breath while meditating?
Do this for just three minutes and see if it helps. Sit on a straight back chair with feet flat on the floor, the entire soles of the feet from tips of the toes to the heels firmly contacting the floor. Keep your back erect, you may place a cushion behind your back for support if required but do not lean back on an inclined backrest of the chair. Let your head be held straight, neck straight, shoulders square and relaxed. You may tilt the head very slightly downward to gaze at a point on the floor in front of you a few feet away from you. Keep your eyes fixed on that spot for the three minutes without moving your eyeballs. Allow your eyes to be half open and half closed and hold that spot in a gentle gaze and not a stare. You are not looking there to see something but simply holding that spot in a gentle gaze. Exhale with a loud sigh from your mouth and use gentle effort to empty your lungs as far as possible without straining too much. Then relax your body and allow the inhale to happen effortlessly and soundlessly through your nostrils. When you sense that the inhale is over, do not put any further effort to breathe in but repeat the exhale from the mouth with the sound and gentle effort. I call this conscious breathing. Effort only for the out breaths and allowing in breaths to happen effortlessly. This entire process is called FGCB or fixed gazing with conscious breathing. You may set hourly reminder alerts on your smartphone and repeat this 3 minute FGCB every hour throughout the day today and see how it helps with calming your mind. This is a powerful grounding practice and you can do this even when you are driving and waiting for the red signal to turn green. Allow any such interruptions in your day to remind you to come back to the practice of FGCB repeatedly. For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.
Selvans Deep crossing: https://youtu.be/qq6iKZquuVI