How can I learn meditation or mindfulness at home?

Practice art, dance or a musical instrument or enjoy a creative project. It does not matter how skill full you are, or adept, but by focusing on our creative side we add balance to our mind.

You need a quite place, some calming music, and you have lots of videos and apps, also the mindfulness forum here is helpful. :)

Breath. Listen to yourself. Get in a comfortable position, lay on your bed and breath deep in and out. Listen to the sound of yourself - turn of every noise you can.

This link has some meditation/mindfulness practice exercises to start you on your journey: https://www.7cups.com/exercises/mindfulness/?showlist=1

There are plenty of online resources, either exercises on 7 cups of tea (under the "my path" section) or other guided exercises on youtube. There are also plenty of good apps both for iphone and android, if you look for them.

Start by watching youtube videos or going to a few classes and practice at home. Put on some calm relaxing music and do some stretches or yoga, great before bed or after a long day of working and sitting down especially at a desk job.

there are many helpful books and youtube videos with relaxing music that goes on for like 10 hours. I'd start from there

There are many ways to meditate, the simplest way to the more detailed ones. One of the simplest way to do meditation is to sit in a private place example your room or anywhere that you feel is private and try to close your eyes and ears if you must and clear your mind and head for about a few minutes. For a more detail way you can get it from Youtube or other medias to help teach you.

There are many ways you can achieve this goal. If you have a smartphone (ie. android or iPhone Etc.) you can download free or paid apps that will walk you through guided meditation or mindfulness exercises. It also may help for you to download or purchase paperback/hardcover books on the subject that include self-help instructions, CD's that you can listen to, DVD's you can watch or a combination of these items to figure out which method will be best for you. Lastly, you can search the web for a wide variety of reliable sources on the subject and learn from the exercises that are available on this site as well as others you may come across. It is a technique you will not learn over night but with time, you will learn how to achieve the benefits of both meditation and mindfulness. Good luck on your journey!

The internet is a great way to learn meditation for free, but if you want someone to teach you in the flesh you could always look up on the internet if there's any yoga or meditation trainers in your area. If there are more than one people look for the cheapest one or the one that offers precisely what you are looking for. Most yoga trainers can come to your house to teach you so that's not a concern to be worried about. Websites like this one are wonderful places to improve you mental heath or overall happiness.