Three Beginner Meditation Mistakes to Avoid

Richard Berrebbi serves as the owner of BD Resources, LLC, a development company bringing traditional and alternative medicines and technologies to other businesses. In Rich Berrebbi’s free time, he enjoys meditating.

Meditation offers numerous physical and mental health benefits such as reducing stress and anxiety, while also helping to decrease blood pressure. If you want to start meditating, the following are three mistakes you should avoid if you want to make the most of your meditation:

1. Trying to Teach Yourself - While practicing on your own is perfectly fine, having somebody teach you the ins and outs of meditation can do wonders for beginners. As a newcomer, you are bound to be rough around the edges and have certain hurdles to overcome. An instructor can quickly spot those issues and teach you how to to adapt to or get past them. 

2. Failing to Prepare - Instead of jumping right into your meditation, take a few minutes to relax, calm down, and mentally prepare. Affirm to yourself that your goal now is to focus. This pre-meditation preparation can help you go much deeper and have a more fulfilling experience. 

3. Letting Distractions Win - You will get distracted when meditating, everyone does from time to time. As a beginner, it will happen more frequently than it would for those who have been practicing for years. Instead of beating yourself up for getting distracted, congratulate yourself for catching it and gently bring yourself back into the moment.

Voyager 1 and 2 Turn 40

Richard Berrebbi works as a partner at American Healing Technologies, Inc., a B2B traditional Chinese medicine importer and distributor. There, he leverages his international partnerships to source the highest quality Chinese herbs. Outside of Rich Berrebbi’s professional life, he has a keen interest in astronomy. 

On September 5th, the Voyager 1 spacecraft turned 40 years old, having launched on the same date in 1977, just weeks after the launch of the Voyager 2 craft. The Voyager 1 craft is currently the farthest human spacecraft from earth. As of September 1st, it was a staggering 12.97 billion miles away, over 139 times farther than the distance between the Earth and the sun. 

Back in 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human spacecraft to leave our galaxy and enter interstellar space. Voyager 2 is expected to follow suit within the next few years. While Voyager 1 feeds NASA never-before-seen data regarding the effects of solar wind far from Earth, Voyager 2 is busy learning about the conditions on the edge of the solar system. 

According to Ed Stone, a Voyager scientist who has been working on the project since before either craft launched, says the both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 still roughly 10 years of power left in them before the instruments become useless. Provided they do not collide with other objects, the two craft will continue flying after losing power, traveling once around the Milky Way galaxy every 225 million years.