Deep meditation: 5 expert-backed techniques that will get you from zero to zen

When meditation hits easy, your body softens, thoughts slow, and time stretches, as if on command. But on other days? It’s a wrestling match with your own mind.

The back-and-forth is normal, and mastering balance between the two states is the essence of deep meditation.

According to Vishen, the founder and CEO of Mindvalley, it’s not about emptying the mind. On the contrary, it happens when “thoughts rearrange themselves effortlessly, where insight feels like a download instead of a strugg...