No, you don't need to sit in lotus posture to ponder

Imagine we're playing pretenses and you're advised to emulate reflection. What present do you go into? 

You've very likely put your hands out, palms looking up, with your first and second fingers contacted to your thumb, into an estimate of what's called lotus present. 

The posture has turned out to be connected to reflection for amateurs and experts alike. Scan a stock picture database for "reflection" and every one of the outcomes demonstrate lotus posture; and a year ago when I figured out how to think, individuals all had a similar supposition of how I sat while I did it. "Like this?" they'd ask, pulling a fast lotus. 

As indicated by my contemplation teacher Rory Kinsella, lotus present — or "padmasana", from the Sanskrit — is the customary reflection present utilized for quite a long time in India and different parts of Asia. 

However, in the cutting edge West, where contemplation is winding up progressively well known, the vast majority of us are accustomed to sitting in seats. Sitting with folded legs on the floor is, best case scenario new, and even from a pessimistic standpoint awkward. 

Luckily, there's no law that contemplation for apprentices needs to include sitting in lotus present. The main role of contemplation is pressure alleviation — and that can be accomplished by situating yourself anyway you like (with a couple of admonitions). 

"Most current, westernized schools of reflection state a seat is fine and that finding a position where you are agreeable yet caution is what is most critical," Kinsella says. 

Instructions to sit when you ruminate 

All things considered, first off, in the event that you need to figure out how to ponder, for fledglings it's best to abstain from ruminating resting, on the grounds that you'll likely rest. (You may at present fall asleep in case you're sitting upstanding, yet you're bound to wake up.)

source: https://coach.nine.com.au/2017/05/19/14/15/meditation-lotus-pose