10 Ways To Create A Meditation Room

If you are reading this because you are preparing to or are planning to build a space in your home, office, or backyard to meditate, then you should congratulate yourself – this is a step towards wellness and health.

If you are looking for a few strategies for how to create your best meditation room, then you have come to the right spot.

This article will give you ten ways, from start to finish, on how to build your best meditation room.

Identify The Reason You Are Creating A Meditation Room

First it may help you to really clearly define why you are creating a meditation room.

Identify your objectives and write them down so that you can return to them in the future if you need a reminder.

These reasons could be different for many of us.

For example, one person could be building a meditation room because they want to spend a significant amount of time connecting with their spiritual self.

Another person may be building a meditation room because they need a few minutes away from their stay-at-home mom duties and want to spend that time meditating.

The build of these spaces could look very different.

Identify Where You Want To Have It

You may spend time in many different places. You may have a home office, a work office, a garden, or other places where you would prefer to build this space.

Identify which location is the most important or feels right for building your space.

Of course, you may eventually decide you want multiple meditation rooms. If so, that’s great, because what you learn in the first building will likely influence how you develop the second in an alternative location.

Have fun with it!

Identify The Space

So, you have identified the location for your meditation room. Great!

Once you have determined you want it at your house or office or wherever, now you much choose the exact space.

Is it a corner of your living room?

Is it an entire room for itself?

Whatever it is, decide how much space you need.

Will only one person meditate, or will you ask your spouse to join you?

Have many decorative items and supplies do you intend to have present?

These questions will assist you in identifying how much space you need to allocate for yourself.

Prepare The Space Spiritually

Be really intentional about how to develop this space.

Whatever your spiritual preference is will likely help you in preparing the space.

It may be as simply as a prayer or as extensive as a spiritual ceremony including sage or other items.

Whatever you need to do to plan for this space to be healing and kind and support your wellness is great.

Choose A Colour

Colour is so important.

What colour represents calmness to you? Strength? Joy? Health?

Do you want white? Soft blue?

Whatever it is, ensure that you incorporate it into your space. This could mean painting your walls or it could mean hanging a tapestry.

Again, this is your space and you get to decide.

But having a colour coordination plan may be helpful in creating the space that you want to have.

If you do need to paint, make sure that you try several different colours. Swatch them on the walls so that you can see what they will look like in your space and with the amount of natural and added light that you have.

Collect Items That Make You Feel Safe

The items that you have in this space are very important.

You may need specific pillows or blankets, or you may have artwork that promotes your wellness and makes meditation easier and feel better.

Whatever the items you have, make sure they make you feel safe.

Meditation is intended to promote well-being and healing, so ensure the items that you invite to join you in this area promote those important concepts as well.

Decorate

This may be the fun part if you enjoy shopping!

Amazon or your local crafting store may have wonderful decorations for you to add to your space.

Are you a minimalist or do you prefer many decorations?

Have you sketched out the way that you want to decorate?

Identify the spaces that need to be filled and the spaces that you want empty.

You may want to add twinkle lights or hanging items.

You should have so much fun decorating this space.

And you may decide to change it often or never at all. That’s okay. Know that it is a starting place and it doesn’t have to be complete or feel perfect from the beginning.

Identify Items To Assist With Meditation

This could look very different depending on the person.

If you are looking to invite mindfulness practice into this space, you may find items in nature that help you with meditation.

I know that it helps me to meditate and be mindful if I start with noticing how rocks feel in my hand. How the edges feel on different parts of my skin. If they are smooth or rough. This has always worked for me.

If there’s something that works for you and makes meditation easier, make sure you have those items available.

This could include guided meditation tapes or a laptop or iPad with speakers to prompt you through your meditation practice. (Please note that if you do use a phone or laptop for meditation practice, turning off the other alerts will be helpful as to not distract you.)

Have The Right Scents

I love candles and incense, and I know that right now using oils and diffusers are very popular.

Having the right scent can be helpful in kickstarting your meditation.

You may have to practise until you find the scent you most prefer.

You may also notice that depending on how you feel, you will have themes for which candle you grab for. If you have a candle or oil you use often, make sure you have a back-up in the event that you use it up during your practice.

Have The Right Sounds

Much like having the right scent is important, having the right sounds are equally as important.

You may want water sounds, ocean sounds, bird sounds, or others.

Whatever you prefer is great. But make sure, of course, that you have a device that can play it. (Amazon does have noise sound machines that can be easily purchased.)

Or if you have your phone or laptop, you can search YouTube for that specific sound.

I would recommend that you save the sounds that you like so they can be easily played again as needed.

Conclusion

Now you have done everything you need to get started. You have identified the space, filled it with objects, sounds, smells, and other things that make you feel good.

You have the start of your beautiful meditation room and you can use it as often as you want to connect with yourself and promote wellness.

I wish you the best of luck on this personal journey, and know that it is never perfect but it is always worth it!

May your meditation practice be full of life and love and wellness!

Additional Resources

These are suggestions for those who wish to delve deeper into any of the above:

1. Aromatherapy Diffusers & Oils
2. Aromatherapy For Beginners
3. Guided Breathing Exercises
4. Meditation For Beginners
5. Mindfulness Course
6. Nature Sounds
7. White Noise & Nature Sounds Machine