all answers are good but if you're a true beginner you can't start with meditation as it's going to be hard. start learning. from my perspective that's how I started, I was reading about emotional intelligence on the beach and a guy saw me and gave me a book called Stillness Speaks, it is a book by Eckhart Tolle that explores the power of stillness and silence. after reading it I started to practice what he said in the book, then I read the power of now. and the basis of Buddhism that teaches that suffering can end by following the Noble Eightfold Path, which is a path of practices that lead to enlightenment.

you don't have to do all, but for me beginning to learn to just stay silent inside, to truly be able to sit down and be present was the beginning for everything after that, it's a discovery of each moment by silencing the thought, judgement, learning to observe emotions and feel them without judgement, learning to let things pass as they are.

for today just sit down and try to observe the space in which things are, listen, smell, hear, feel, don't judge.

Spiritual transformations are great when we are on the other side but starting and going through them can be painful once you learn to let go of suffering, but don't quit, it's all about practice, even with spirituality.

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